American economist and academic

Laura Tyson

Laura D'Andrea Tyson is an American economist and university administrator who is currently a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley and a senior fellow at the Berggruen Institute. She served as the 16th Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 1993 to 1995 and 2nd Director of the National Economic Council from 1995 to 1996 under President Bill Clinton. Tyson was the first woman to hold each of those posts. She is the first of only two people to have served in both posts, the second being Kevin Hassett.

Born

1947

June 28

Died

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1940s

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1947 Born

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1098 Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch.
1360 Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
1461 Edward, Earl of March, is crowned King Edward IV of England.
1495 A French force heavily defeats a much larger Neapolitan and Spanish army at the battle of Seminara, leading to the creation of the Tercios by Gonzalo de Córdoba.

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The world in 1947

When Laura arrived

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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Elon Musk 1971– South African-born American entrepreneur Alexis Carrel 1873–1944 French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1944) Charles Cruft 1852–1938 English showman, founded Crufts Dog Show (died 1938) Chuck Howley 1936– American football player Don Baylor 1949–2017 American baseball player (born 1949) Fabien Barthez 1971– French footballer Jaime Guzmán 1946–1991 Chilean lawyer and politician (born 1946) Jon Nödtveidt 1975–2006 Swedish musician (born 1975) Kurt Eichenwald 1961– American journalist

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Also born in 1947

Arnold Schwarzenegger 1947– Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of California Alain Bashung 1947– French singer-songwriter and actor (died 2009) Albert Brooks 1947– American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter Andrea Martin 1947– American-Canadian actress, singer, and screenwriter Ángel Nieto 1947– Spanish motorcycle racer (died 2017) Angry Anderson 1947– Australian singer and actor Anton Mosimann 1947– Swiss chef and author Assata Shakur 1947– American-Cuban criminal and activist (died 2025) Barry Melton 1947– American singer-songwriter and guitarist

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