American engineer and businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company (born 1863)

Henry Ford

Henry Ford was an American industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through the system that came to be known as Fordism. In 1911, he was awarded a patent for the transmission mechanism that would be used in the Ford Model T and other automobiles.

Born

1863

July 30

Died

1947

Era

1860s

Country

United States

About

Henry, in brief

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Key dates

1863 Born
1947 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

762 Baghdad is founded.
1419 First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
1502 Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
1609 Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.

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The world in 1947

When Henry departed

april 1 The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
april 15 Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
april 16 An explosion on board a freighter in port causes Texas City in the state of Texas, United States, to catch fire, killing almost 600 people.
april 16 Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on July 30

Arnold Schwarzenegger 1947– Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of California Bill Cartwright 1957– American basketball player and coach Bud Selig 1934– 9th Major League Baseball Commissioner David Sanborn 1945–2024 American saxophonist and composer (died 2024) Françoise Barré-Sinoussi 1947– French virologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate Giorgio Vasari 1511–1574 Italian painter, historian, and architect (died 1574) Harriet Harman 1950– English lawyer and politician Hilary Swank 1974– American actress and producer Jaime Pressly 1977– American actress

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1863

Bob Fitzsimmons 1863–1917 English-New Zealand boxer (died 1917) Francisco León de la Barra 1863–1939 Mexican politician and diplomat (died 1939) Jessie Willcox Smith 1863–1935 American illustrator (born 1863) John Henry Wigmore 1863– American academic and jurist (died 1943) Mary Church Terrell 1863– American author and activist (died 1954) Vladimir Vernadsky 1863–1945 Russian mineralogist and chemist (born 1863) William Randolph Hearst 1863–1951 American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (died 1951)

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