Poet Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes

Living place: Joplin

Birthday: 1-2-1902

Population of US 1902: 79,163,000

Global rank: #13054

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Who is Poet Langston Hughes?
African-American poet, author, activist, and Harlem Renaissance leader whose best-known works include The Blues Weary, Montage of a Deferred Dream, No Without Laughter, and Black Christmas. He published his masterpiece poem, "The Negro Speaks of the Rivers," in 1921.
He was one of the first jazz poets.

Young / Before famous

He wrote his first plays, poems and short stories during his high school years in Cleveland, Ohio.

Family life info

He was born in Missouri to Carrie Mercer Langston and James Nathaniel Hughes, both of whom trace their heritage back to both slaves and slave owners.

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He greatly influenced the work of French author Aime Cesaire.

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When was Poet Langston Hughes born?
Langston Hughes was born in 1-2-1902, death year is , at the age of 122.
Where is Poet Langston Hughes's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri- United States. Là Poet, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Ox. Langston Hughes's global rank is 13054 and whose rank is 10 in list of famous Poet. Population of US in 1902 is about 79,163,000 persons.
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Events in 1902 and 1-2

Events in US in the birth year of Langston Hughes

  • Bureau of the Census is established; it later becomes part of the Department of Commerce.
  • Approximately 150 thousand United Mine Workers strike in Pennsylvania for a wage increase and more suitable hours.

Birthday Langston Hughes (1-2) in history

  • Day 1-2 year 1790: The United States Supreme Court was convened for the first time in New York City.
  • Day 1-2 year 1862: Julia Ward Howe's poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
  • Day 1-2 year 1884: The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary A–Ant, was published.
  • Day 1-2 year 1946: A press conference announced the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC, was held at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Day 1-2 year 1960: Four black college students began a series of sit-ins at a white-only lunch counter in Woolworth’s, Greensboro, N.C.
  • Day 1-2 year 1968: During the Vietnam War, a Viet Cong officer was executed with a pistol shot to the head by Saigon's police chief and the image captured in a famous news photograph.
  • Day 1-2 year 1979: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after 15 years of exile.
  • Day 1-2 year 2003: The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it tried to reenter the Earth's atmosphere after a sixteen-day mission in space. All seven members of the crew were lost.
  • Day 1-2 year 2004: Janet Jackson's famous "wardrobe malfunction" occurred at Super Bowl XXXVIII.
  • Day 1-2 year 2009: Johanna Sigurdardottir takes office as Iceland's first female prime minister.
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