American environmentalist, founder of the Sierra Club Foundation (died 2000)

David Brower

David Ross Brower was a prominent environmentalist and the founder of many environmental organizations, including the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies (1997), Friends of the Earth (1969), Earth Island Institute (1982), North Cascades Conservation Council, and Fate of the Earth Conferences. From 1952 to 1969, he served as the first Executive Director of the Sierra Club, and served on its board three times: from 1941–1953; 1983–1988; and 1995–2000 as a petition candidate enlisted by reform-activists known as the John Muir Sierrans. As a younger man, he was a prominent mountaineer.

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1912

July 1

Died

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1910s

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1912 Born

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69 Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
552 Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the Ostrogoth king, Totila, is mortally wounded.
1097 Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I.
1431 The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of the Kingdom of Castile during the Reconquista.

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The world in 1912

When David arrived

april 10 RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, UK, on her maiden and only voyage.
april 14 The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and begins to sink.
april 15 The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive.
april 16 Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716 German mathematician and philosopher (died 1716) Andraé Crouch 1942–2015 American singer-songwriter, producer, and pastor (born 1942) Art McNally 1925– American football referee (died 2023) Carl Lewis 1961– American long jumper and runner David Prowse 1935–2020 English actor (died 2020) Diana 1961–1997 Princess of Wales (born 1961) Florence Earle Coates 1850–1927 American poet (born 1850) Gerald Edelman 1929–2014 American biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014) Ignaz Semmelweis 1818–1865 Hungarian physician and obstetrician (born 1818)

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Arsenio Lacson 1912–1962 Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila (born 1912) Chien-Shiung Wu 1912–1997 Chinese-American physicist and academic (born 1912) Danny Thomas 1912–1991 American actor, producer, and humanitarian (born 1914) Eleanor Powell 1912–1982 American actress and dancer (born 1912) Erich Honecker 1912–1994 German politician (died 1994) Georg Solti 1912–1997 Hungarian-English conductor and director (died 1997) Habib Elghanian 1912– Iranian businessman (died 1979) Jackson Pollock 1912–1956 American painter (born 1912) Jacques Ellul 1912–1994 French philosopher and critic (died 1994)

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