2023: North America in Focus
Events and anniversaries coming up in 2023
10 August 2022
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The world looks to North America for news and content. Not only do we supply imagery of historic events from North America, we also put those events into world context with our imagery.
Below is our list of North American anniversaries and events for 2023. We frequently add to it and you can check for updates in our Newsroom. Scroll through for an idea of what we can offer, or request a search for an upcoming project and see what akg-images can do for you.
2023 - Anniversaries of birth
50 Years +
16 August: Madonna, American entertainer - 65 years
31 December: Donna Summer, American singer/songwriter - 75 years
19 January: Janis Joplin, American singer - 80 years
8 December: Jim Morrison, American singer - 80 years
7 April: James Garner, American actor - 95 years
100 Years +
12 April: Ann Miller, American actress/entertainer - 100 years
7 May: Anne Baxter, American actress - 100 years
27 May: Henry Kissinger, American politician - 100 years
200 Years +
25 May: Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer and essayist - 220 years
3 April: Washington Irving, American author - 240 years
2023 - Anniversaries of death
20 Years +
30 August: Charles Bronson, American actor - 20 years
20 January: Audrey Hepburn, Actress and humanitarian - 30 years
31 October: River Phoenix - American actor and musician - 30 years
50 Years +
2 September: J.R.R. Tolkien, author of Lord of the Rings - 50 years
22 November: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, US president - 60 years
100 Years +
29 January: Elihu Vedder, American Symbolist painter- 100 years
27 December: Gustave Eiffel, French engineer, contributed to the construction of the Statue of Liberty - 100 years
2023 - Event anniversaries
10 Years +
4 November: Barack Obama becomes first African-American President - 15 years
50 Years +
22 January: Roe vs Wade, landmark case which legalised abortion - 50 years
14 May: Skylab is launched into Earth orbit - 50 years
11 June: President Kennedy proposes legislation that becomes The Civil Rights Act of 1964 - 60 years
28 August: Civil Rights March on Washington - 60 years
3 April: The Marshall Plan is signed into law by President Truman- 75 years
24 June: Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift - 75 years
26 November: The first Polaroid camera goes on sale - 75 years
28 November: Tehran Conference - 80 years
30 October: Orson Welles's radio broadcast of H.G Wells's War of the Worlds - 85 years
20 February: Blaine Act ends Prohibition - 90 years
100 Years +
13 July: Hollywood sign is inaugurated; "HOLLYWOODLAND" - 100 years
16 October: The Walt Disney Company is founded - 100 years
(date unknown) 1903: Roald Amundsen departs for Northwest Passage - 120 years
17 December: Orville and Wilbur Wright make their first successful flight - 120 years
21 April: Spanish-American War begins - 125 years
150 Years +
23 May: North West Mounted Police are formed (early RCMP) - 150 years
September: Panic of 1873 - 150 years
22 April: HMS Erebus and HMS Terror are abandoned in an expedition to find Northwest Passage - 175 years
250 Years +
16 December: Boston Tea Party - 250 years
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