Novelist Douglas Adams

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Douglas Adams

Living place: Cambridge

Birthday: 11-3-1952 (72 years old)

Population of the world 1952: 2.635 billions

Global rank: #24297

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Who is Novelist Douglas Adams?
English author of the popular sci-fi series, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, whose origin was a BBC radio comedy. His other works include The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and The Meaning of Liff (1983).
He is a self-proclaimed atheist.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He attended The Brentwood School, a prestigious preparatory institute, and went on to study English at St John's College, Cambridge. After graduation, he moved to London to pursue a career in television and radio writing.

Family life info

He and his sister, Susan, are the children of Christopher and Janet Adams. He married Jane Belson in 1991, and the couple welcomed their daughter, Polly, in 1994, less than a decade before Adams' untimely death from a heart attack.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist Douglas Adams?
He studied piano with Denny Laine, Beatles song pianist, Wings Paul McCartney.

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When was Novelist Douglas Adams born?
Douglas Adams birthday 11-3-1952 (at the age of 72).
Where is Novelist Douglas Adams's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, of England. is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Pisces, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dragon. Douglas Adams's global rank is 24297 and whose rank is 103 in list of famous Novelist. Population of the world in 1952 is about 2.635 billions persons.
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Events in 1952 and 11-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Douglas Adams

  • George VI of England dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II (Feb. 6).
  • NATO conference approves European army (Feb.).
  • King Farouk of Egypt is ousted by a military coup (July 23). General Mohammed Naguib assumes power.
  • Britain announces its development of atomic weapons (Oct.). Background: nuclear weapons
  • Greece and Turkey join NATO.

Birthday Douglas Adams (11-3) in history

  • Day 11-3 year 1861: The Confederate States of America adopted its constitution.
  • Day 11-3 year 1888: A torrential rainstorm hit the East Coast. The rain turned to snow the next day and it became the Blizzard of 1888, the most famous snowstorm in American history. It caused more than 400 deaths.
  • Day 11-3 year 1930: William Howard Taft became the first U.S. president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
  • Day 11-3 year 1941: President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Bill.
  • Day 11-3 year 1942: General Douglas MacArthur leaves the Philippines saying, "I shall return."
  • Day 11-3 year 1985: Mikhail Gorbachev became head of the Soviet Union following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. At 54, he was the youngest member of the ruling Politburo.
  • Day 11-3 year 1990: Augusto Pinochet of Chile, dictator since 1973, steps down.
  • Day 11-3 year 1993: Janet Reno won unanimous Senate confirmation to be the first female U.S. Attorney General.
  • Day 11-3 year 2004: Over 200 people were killed and over 1,400 were injured when bombs exploded in Madrid train stations. Al-Qaeda took responsibility for the attacks.
  • Day 11-3 year 2011: Japan is hit by an enormous earthquake that triggers a deadly 23-foot tsunami in the country's north, about 230 miles northeast of Tokyo. Cooling systems in one of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station fail shortly after the earthquake, causing a nuclear crisis.
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