Historians Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn

Living place: New York

Birthday: 24-8-1922 (102 years old)

Population of US 1922: 110,049,000

Global rank: #71164

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Who is Historians Howard Zinn?
Perhaps most famous for his best-selling work The History of the A People of the United States (1980), this writer, historian, activist, and professor has also written many historical plays. subject matter, including Emma (1976) and Marx in Soho (1999).
After teaching assignments at Spelman College (Atlanta, Georgia), the University of Bologna, and the University of Paris, he became a political science and civil liberties professor at Boston University.
 
 

Young / Before famous

After fighting in World War II as a bombadier with the United States Army Air Forces, he attended New York University with the GI Bill and went on to receive a doctorate in history from Columbia University.

Family life info

The son of a Siberian-born mother and an Austrian and Hungarian father, Zinn grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He married more than six decades to Roslyn Shechter leading children named Jeff and Myla.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Historians Howard Zinn?
He and fellow religious leader and anti-war activist Daniel Berrigan traveled to Hanoi, Vietnam in early 1968 and successfully negotiated the release of three American POWs.

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When was Historians Howard Zinn born?
Howard Zinn birthday 24-8-1922 (at the age of 102).
Where is Historians Howard Zinn's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Howard Zinn was born in New York, . is a Historians, whose Zodiac is Virgo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dog. Howard Zinn's global rank is 71164 and whose rank is 29 in list of famous Historians. Population of US in 1922 is about 110,049,000 persons.
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Events in 1922 and 24-8

Events in US in the birth year of Howard Zinn

  • Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. (May 30).
  • Coal miners strike for nearly six months to protest wage cuts. The strike, one of several organized by the United Mine Workers of America since 1919, cripples the coal mining industry.

Birthday Howard Zinn (24-8) in history

  • Day 24-8 year 79: The volcano Vesuvius suddenly awoke and erupted lava that buried the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
  • Day 24-8 year 1572: A dark day for the Huguenots when 70,000 French Protestants were massacred on Saint Bartholomew's Day.
  • Day 24-8 year 1814: The British set fire to the White House and the Capitol when they invaded Washington, DC during the War of 1812.
  • Day 24-8 year 1821: Mexico gained its independence from Spain with the Treaty of Cordoba.
  • Day 24-8 year 1949: The North Atlantic Treaty went into effect.
  • Day 24-8 year 1968: France became the world's fifth nuclear power as it exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.
  • Day 24-8 year 1989: Pete Rose was banned from baseball for gambling.
  • Day 24-8 year 1991: Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as the general secretary of the Communist Party after a failed coup attempt against him.
  • Day 24-8 year 1992: Hurricane Andrew hit Florida, causing record damage.
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