Poet Jimmy Santiago Baca

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Jimmy Santiago Baca

Living place: New Mexico

Birthday: 2-1-1952 (72 years old)

Population of US 1952: 157,552,740

Global rank: #69668

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Who is Poet Jimmy Santiago Baca?
American poet and author whose poetry collections include Earthquake Healing, Set This Book on Fire, and Black Mesa Poems. His many literary awards include the Trolley Prize, the American Book Award, the Spanish International Heritage Prize.
He was born into a family of both Chicano and Apache heritage.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He taught himself to read and write while serving a six-year prison sentence for drug possession. He detailed this experience in a 2001 memoir titled A Place to Stand.

Family life info

His parents abandoned him when he was two years old, and he was eventually transferred to a grandmother's orphanage.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Poet Jimmy Santiago Baca?
He was born in the same year as Gary Soto, a fellow Latino-American poet and author.

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When was Poet Jimmy Santiago Baca born?
Jimmy Santiago Baca birthday 2-1-1952 (at the age of 72).
Where is Poet Jimmy Santiago Baca's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in New Mexico, . is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Capricorn, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Cat. Jimmy Santiago Baca's global rank is 69668 and whose rank is 510 in list of famous Poet. Population of US in 1952 is about 157,552,740 persons.
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Events in 1952 and 2-1

Events in US in the birth year of Jimmy Santiago Baca

  • US explodes first thermonuclear bomb at Enewetak Island (Nov. 1).
  • President-elect Dwight Eisenhower follows through with his campaign promise to visit Korea (Dec. 2).
  • 56 million watch Richard Nixon's "Checker's speech" on TV.

Birthday Jimmy Santiago Baca (2-1) in history

  • Day 2-1 year 1492: Muhammad XI surrendered to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I.
  • Day 2-1 year 1788: Georgia was admitted to the Union as the 4th state to ratify the US constitution.
  • Day 2-1 year 1839: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon.
  • Day 2-1 year 1905: The Russo-Japanese war ended.
  • Day 2-1 year 1923: The African-American town of Rosewood, Fla., was burned by a white mob.
  • Day 2-1 year 1935: The Bruno R. Hauptmann trial began for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh baby.
  • Day 2-1 year 1959: The first spacecraft to fly by the Moon and also to orbit the Sun, Mechta (Luna 1) was launched by the USSR.
  • Day 2-1 year 1994: Rudolph Giuliani is inaugurated as New York City's mayor.
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