Poet Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni

Living place: Knoxville

Birthday: 7-6-1943 (81 years old)

Population of US 1943: 136,739,353

Global rank: #23452

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Who is Poet Nikki Giovanni?
Famous African-American poet, author and professor on Bicycles: Love Poems; Cotton Candy on a rainy day; and Black Judgment. She also wrote several children's books, which included spin a Soft Black Song and The Sun is So Quiet.
She taught writing at Virginia Tech in 2007, when the school massacre occurred on April 16. Her words, "We are Virginia Tech... We're going to win", have become a call for students who have been hurt.
 
 

Young / Before famous

She attended Fisk University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University.

Family life info

She was born in Tennessee, and she was raised in Ohio. She has a son named Thomas.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Poet Nikki Giovanni?
The program National Public Radio, All Things see, Corporal Giovanni to write a poem for the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama.

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When was Poet Nikki Giovanni born?
Nikki Giovanni birthday 7-6-1943 (at the age of 81).
Where is Poet Nikki Giovanni's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee- United States. is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Gemini, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Goat. Nikki Giovanni's global rank is 23452 and whose rank is 31 in list of famous Poet. Population of US in 1943 is about 136,739,353 persons.
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Events in 1943 and 7-6

Events in US in the birth year of Nikki Giovanni

  • President freezes prices, salaries, and wages to prevent inflation .
  • Withholding tax on wages introduced. Background: History of the Income Tax in the United States
  • The Pentagon is completed and becomes the largest office building in the world.
  • The Chinese Exclusion Acts of 1882 and 1902 are repealed permitting immigration and naturalization of Chinese.

Birthday Nikki Giovanni (7-6) in history

  • Day 7-6 year 1494: Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, a treaty dividing the "New World" between the two countries.
  • Day 7-6 year 1654: "Sun King" Louis XIV ascended the throne of France.
  • Day 7-6 year 1776: Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution in the Continental Congress proposing the Declaration of Independence.
  • Day 7-6 year 1892: Homer Plessy was arrested for his refusal to move from a whites-only seat on a train. This led to the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision.
  • Day 7-6 year 1929: Vatican City became a sovereign state.
  • Day 7-6 year 1948: President Eduard Beneš of Czechoslovakia resigned and the Communist takeover of the country was completed.
  • Day 7-6 year 1967: Dorothy Parker, American short story writer, poet, and critic, died.
  • Day 7-6 year 2003: Rev. V. Gene Robinson was elected the first openly gay bishop by New Hampshire Episcopalians.
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