American geographer and oceanographer

Dawn Wright

Dawn Jeannine Wright is an American geographer and oceanographer. She is a leading authority in the application of geographic information system (GIS) technology to the field of ocean and coastal science and played a key role in creating the first GIS data model for the oceans. Wright is Chief Scientist of the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri). She has also been a professor of geography and oceanography at Oregon State University since 1995 and is a former Oregon Professor of the Year as named by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

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1961

April 15

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1961 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

769 The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.
1071 Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to the Norman Robert Guiscard.
1071 The sharif of Mecca changes the khutbah from the Shiite Fatimid caliph in Cairo to the Sunni Abbasid Caliph in Bagdhad.
1191 Henry VI, King of Germany, is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by pope Celestine III.

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The world in 1961

When Dawn arrived

april 11 The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
april 12 Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first crewed orbital flight, Vostok 1.
april 16 In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
april 17 Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Leonardo da Vinci 1452–1519 Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (died 1519) Leonhard Euler 1707–1783 Swiss mathematician and physicist (died 1783) Alla Pugacheva 1949– Russian singer-songwriter and actress Ashleigh Gardner 1997– Australian cricketer Claudia Cardinale 1938– Italian actress (died 2025) Corrie ten Boom 1892– Dutch-American clocksmith, Nazi resister, and author (died 1983) Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1772–1844 French biologist and zoologist (died 1844) Harold Washington 1922–1987 American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Chicago (died 1987) Joe Davis 1901– English snooker player (died 1978)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1961

Alain Vigneault 1961– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Ann Coulter 1961– American political commentator and author Artur Ekert 1961– Polish-British physicist and academic Ben Summerskill 1961– English businessman and journalist Cam Cameron 1961– American football player and coach Carl Lewis 1961– American long jumper and runner Christian Okoye 1961– American football player Cindy Herron 1961– American singer-songwriter and actress David Armstrong-Jones 1961– 2nd Earl of Snowdon, English businessman

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