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Armand Hammer
Armand Hammer was an American oil tycoon, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.
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business · American businessman (1898–1990) · art collector · businessperson · entrepreneur · also Armand Hammer, Armand Hamer, Armand Khammer, Hammer
Born 1 January 1898 · Died 10 December 1990 · Q363383
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2026· 4 entries
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2025· 2 entries
Uproxx: The Alchemist Reunites With Armand Hammer For A Second Album, ‘Mercy’
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Yahoo: Armand Hammer, The Alchemist Deliver ‘Mercy’
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2024· 5 entries
Jazz: Armand Hammer
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brooklynvegan: Armand Hammer share song ft. Benjamin Booker, doing 'BLK LBL' pop-ups in NY & LA; woods opening for Amen Dunes
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Pitchfork: Armand Hammer Share Video for New Song “Doves” Featuring Benjamin Booker
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Chicago Reader: Armand Hammer and Quelle Chris join forces for a hip-hop doubleheader
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Stereogum: Armand Hammer Announce New Album, Only Available On Vinyl At Their Live Shows
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2023· 2 entries
Pitchfork: Armand Hammer Share El-P Produced New Song “The Gods Must Be Crazy”
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brooklynvegan: Armand Hammer share "Trauma Mic" ft. Pink Siifu, announce tour
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2021· 2 entries
NPR: Armand Hammer Raps From Another Dimension. It's On Us To Catch Up
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Stereogum: Armand Hammer & The Alchemist – “Black Sunlight” (Feat. KAYANA)
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1990· 1 entry
Died 1990-12-10.
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1988· 2 entries
Awarded Four Freedoms Award – Freedom from Fear in Middelburg (1988).
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When its oil rig, Piper Alpha, exploded, killing 167 men
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1987· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Arts (1987).
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1986· 1 entry
Forbes magazine estimated his net worth at $200 million
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1984· 1 entry
Under Hammer's guidance, Gore Jr
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1981· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Paul Cézanne University (1981).
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Hammer was appointed by US President Ronald Reagan to serve on the three-member President's Cancer Panel and he later served as chairman of the panel from 1984 to 1989
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With the support of the then-Prince of Wales, Charles, who was president of United World Colleges International
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1979· 1 entry
And became known as the Hammer Center
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1978· 2 entries
The fertilizer deal began functioning in the Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, with the opening of the port and the Odessa plants near the former location of Grigorievka (Russian: Григорьевка, Ukrainian: Григорівка) at the se
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Hammer, as a non-citizen of the Soviet Union, received the Soviet Union's award the Order of Friendship of Peoples from Leonid Brezhnev because of his strong support of both the International Workers and Communist moveme
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1975· 1 entry
(Considine, authorized biography), 1985 (Bryson, coffee table book), Weinberg 1989, Blumay 1992, Epstein 1996, and Alef 2009; and two autobiographies (1932 and a bestseller in 1987)
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1974· 1 entry
Armand Hammer announced a 35-year oil exploration agreement with Libya, the first such agreement signed by Libya after Muammar Gaddafi came to power in September 1969
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1973· 1 entry
Libya nationalized 51% of Oxy's holdings in Libya
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1972· 4 entries
Hammer returned to the United States through London and called Tim Babcock, Hammer's lobbyist for the Nixon administration, to have him arrange a meeting with Nixon through H
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Hammer traveled to Moscow arriving July 14, 1972, and, with Sargent Shriver as his legal advisor, negotiated the first trade agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union following Nixon's summit
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Which banned political contributions both anonymous and through another person
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"under pressure" from various sources, Hammer donated an unusual amount to Nixon's second campaign: "He wished his substantial contribution to Nixon to be anonymous because he himself was a Democrat
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1968· 1 entry
Career landmark: trustee (1968).
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1956· 1 entry
Married the wealthy widow Frances Barrett, and they remained married until her death in 1989
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1927· 1 entry
Hammer married a Russian actress, Olga Vadimovna von Root, who was the daughter of a czarist general
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1921· 3 entries
Departed New York on his first trip to Soviet Russia as Allied Drug's representative in Soviet Russia
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While waiting for his internship to begin at Bellevue Hospital, Hammer went to the Soviet Union for a trip that lasted until late 1930
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Hammer's intentions in the 1921 trip have been debated ever since.
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1920· 2 entries
Martens was deported; he was returned to Soviet Russia in January 1921
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A judge sentenced Julius Hammer to three and a half years in Sing Sing prison
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1919· 4 entries
Federal agents witnessed Marie Oganesoff (the 33-year-old Russian wife of a former tsarist diplomat) entering Julius's medical office located in a wing of his Bronx home
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Ludwig Martens escaped and went underground, often hiding at Hammer's home
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Manufacturing and selling a ginger extract, which legally contained high levels of alcohol
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And received his medical degree from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1921
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-01-01.
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1875· 1 entry
And settled in the Bronx, where he ran a general medical practice and five drugstores
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