American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States (born 1884)

Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. As the 34th vice president in 1945, he assumed the presidency upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt that year.

Born

1884

May 8

Died

1972

Era

1880s

Country

United States

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Harry, in brief

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Key dates

1884 Born
1972 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

-453 Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin.
413 Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths.
589 Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo, marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church.
1360 The Hundred Years War: the Treaty of Brétigny is drafted between King Edward III of England and King John II of France (the Good).

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The world in 1972

When Harry departed

april 10 Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
april 10 Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
april 13 The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.
april 13 Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on May 8

Barbara Howard 1920–2017 Canadian sprinter and educator (born 1920) Bill Cowher 1957– American football player, coach, and analyst David Attenborough 1926– English environmentalist and television host David Keith 1954– American actor and director Fernandel 1903– French actor and singer (died 1971) Franco Baresi 1960– Italian footballer and coach Friedrich Hayek 1899–1992 Austrian-German economist, philosopher, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899) Gamini Lokuge 1943– Sri Lankan politician (died 2025) Kemba Walker 1990– American basketball player

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1884

Amedeo Modigliani 1884–1920 Italian painter and sculptor (born 1884) Angelos Sikelianos 1884–1951 Greek poet and playwright (born 1884) Charles Griffes 1884–1920 American pianist and composer (born 1884) Claude Auchinleck 1884– English field marshal (died 1981) Cyclone Taylor 1884–1979 Canadian ice hockey player and politician (died 1979) Hilda Rix Nicholas 1884–1961 Australian artist (born 1884) Martin Klein 1884–1947 Estonian wrestler and coach (born 1884) Ogden L. Mills 1884– American captain, lawyer, and politician, 50th United States Secretary of the Treasury (died 1937) Otto Rank 1884–1939 Austrian-American psychologist and academic (died 1939)

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