American historian and author (born 1915)

Oscar Handlin

Oscar Handlin was an American historian. As a professor of history at Harvard University for over 50 years, he directed 80 PhD dissertations and helped promote social and ethnic history, virtually inventing the field of immigration history in the 1950s. Handlin won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Uprooted (1951). Handlin's 1965 testimony before Congress played an important role in passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that abolished the discriminatory immigration quota system.

Born

1915

September 29

Died

2011

Era

1910s

Country

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1915 Born
2011 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

-61 Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
1011 Danes capture Canterbury after a siege, taking Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury, as a prisoner.
1227 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades during the Investiture Controversy.
1267 The Treaty of Montgomery recognises Llywelyn ap Gruffudd as Prince of Wales, but only as a vassal of King Henry III.

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The world in 1915

When Oscar arrived

april 18 World War I: French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines.
april 22 World War I: The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
april 24 The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian genocide.
april 25 World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on September 29

Silvio Berlusconi 1936–2023 Italian businessman and politician, Prime Minister of Italy (born 1936) Clarence Ashley 1895– American singer, guitarist, and banjo player (died 1967) Eddie Tolan 1908–1967 American sprinter and educator (born 1908) Enrico Fermi 1901–1954 Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901) Greer Garson 1904–1996 English-American actress (born 1904) Guadalupe Victoria 1786–1843 Mexican general and politician, 1st President of Mexico (born 1786) Jim Baxter 1939–2001 Scottish footballer (born 1939) Kevin Durant 1988– American basketball player Lizabeth Scott 1922–2015 American actress (born 1922)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1915

Claudia Jones 1915–1964 Trinidad-British journalist and activist (born 1915) Ethel Rosenberg 1915–1953 American spy (born 1915) Germán Valdés 1915– Mexican actor, singer, and producer (died 1973) Jon Hall 1915–1979 American actor and director (born 1915) Joseph Ransohoff 1915–2001 American surgeon and educator (born 1915) Kiyosi Itô 1915–2008 Japanese mathematician and academic (born 1915) Leonard Goodwin 1915–2008 British protozoologist (died 2008) Les Paul 1915–2009 American guitarist, songwriter, and inventor (born 1915) M. F. Husain 1915–2011 Indian painter and director (born 1915)

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