Historians Yosef Ben-Jochannan

Yosef Ben-Jochannan

Living place: Gondar

Birthday: 31-12-1918

Global rank: #47888

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Who is Historians Yosef Ben-Jochannan?
An African-born writer and better known as "Dr. Ben", he became one of the most prominent Afrocentric scholars of the twentieth century. His nearly fifty published works focus on the ancient civilizations of the Nile Valley.
He was criticized for his Afrocentric re-work on history and, at a lecture, punished by scholar Mary Lefkowitz for asserting that Aristotle had visited the Library of Alexandria.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He began serving as the President of UNESCO's Africanology Committee in 1945 and held the position until 1970.

Family life info

He was born in Ethiopia to an Afro-Puerto Rico, to a Jewish mother and an Ethiopian father. After studying civil engineering at the University of Puerto Rico and architectural engineering at the University of Havana, he immigrated to the United States.

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He is a great of Ephraim Isaac, a student Ethiopian scholar.

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When was Historians Yosef Ben-Jochannan born?
Yosef Ben-Jochannan was born in 31-12-1918, death year is , at the age of 106.
Where is Historians Yosef Ben-Jochannan's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Yosef Ben-Jochannan was born in Gondar, of Ethiopia. is a Historians, whose Zodiac is Capricorn, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Horse. Yosef Ben-Jochannan's global rank is 47888 and whose rank is 8 in list of famous Historians.
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Events in 1918 and 31-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Yosef Ben-Jochannan

  • Russian revolutionaries execute the former czar and his family. Russian Civil War between Reds (Bolsheviks) and Whites (anti-Bolsheviks); Reds win in 1920.
  • Allied troops (U.S., British, French) intervene in Russia (March). Background: World War I
  • Second Battle of the Marne (July-Aug.)
  • German Kaiser abdicates (Nov.); hostilities cease on the Western Front.
  • Japanese hold Vladivostok until 1922.
  • Worldwide Spanish influenza epidemic strikes; by 1920, nearly 20 million are dead. In U.S. alone, 500,000 perish.

Birthday Yosef Ben-Jochannan (31-12) in history

  • Day 31-12 year 1879: Thomas Edison gave the first public demonstration of an electric incandescent lamp.
  • Day 31-12 year 1938: The first breath test for drivers, "drunkometer," was introduced in Indianapolis.
  • Day 31-12 year 1946: President Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II.
  • Day 31-12 year 1961: The Marshall Plan expired after distributing more than $12 billion in foreign aid.
  • Day 31-12 year 1963: Central African Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was formally dissolved.
  • Day 31-12 year 1964: The al-Fatah guerrillas of Yasser Arafat launched their first terrorist raid on Israel.
  • Day 31-12 year 1987: Robert Mugabe sworn in as Zimbabwe's president.
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