December 17th, 1939

Born on December 17th, 1939

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What happened on December 17th, 1939?

December 17th, 1939

World War II: Battle of the River Plate: The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

December 17th, 1939

World War II: After sustaining moderate damage in the Battle of the River Plate two days earlier, the German cruiser Graf Spee was scuttled by its commander, Hans Langsdorff, to avoid its internment by Uruguay.

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What else happened on December 17th?

December 17th, 2010

Arab Spring: Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor, set himself on fire in protest against police harassment, triggering the Tunisian Revolution.

December 17th, 1990

American gay rights activist William E. Woods brought three same-sex couples to fill out marriage licenses in Honolulu, leading to the eventual legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States.

December 17th, 1989

The Simpsons, the longest running American prime-time entertainment series, made its debut on the Fox television network with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire".

December 17th, 1983

The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a car bomb outside Harrods in London, killing six people and injuring about 90 others.

December 17th, 1970

Polish soldiers fired at workers (memorial pictured) emerging from trains in Gdynia, beginning the government's crackdown on mass anti-communist protests across the country.

December 17th, 1967

Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming near Portsea, Victoria; his body was never recovered.

December 17th, 1948

The Finnish Security Police was established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police.

December 17th, 1945

The modern flag of Kurdistan was raised for the first time in Mahabad, Iran.

December 17th, 1944

Nazi troops under Joachim Peiper killed unarmed prisoners of war, captured during the Battle of the Bulge, with machine guns near Malmedy, Belgium.

December 17th, 1926

A coup d'état by the Lithuanian military replaced the democratically elected President Kazys Grinius with Antanas Smetona.

December 17th, 1918

About 1,000 demonstrators marched (pictured) on Government House in Darwin, Australia, where they burned an effigy of Administrator John Gilruth and demanded his resignation.

December 17th, 1903

Aboard the Wright Flyer (pictured) in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright conducted the first successful flights of a powered fixed-wing aircraft.

December 17th, 1862

American Civil War: Union General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on December 17th

Born on December 17th, 1939

84

José Balza

Venezuelan writer

*December 17th, 1939, Tucupita

43

James Booker

American musician and singer (1939–1983)

*December 17th, 1939, New Orleans †November 8th, 1983, New Orleans

52

Eddie Kendricks

American singer and songwriter, member of The Temptations (1939-1992)

*December 17th, 1939, Union Springs †October 5th, 1992, Birmingham

77

Novella Nelson

American actress

*December 17th, 1939, Brooklyn †September 1st, 2017, Brooklyn

84

Renate Bauer

German film actress

*December 17th, 1939, Berlin

83

Richard Ng

Hong Kong actor (1939–2023)

*December 17th, 1939, Guangzhou †April 9th, 2023, Hong Kong

76

Joseph Roduit

Swiss priest (1939-2015)

*December 17th, 1939, Saillon †December 17th, 2015, Saint-Maurice

Same Day
Who's birthday is on December 17th?

80

Peter Snell

New Zealand athlete

*December 17th, 1938, Ōpunake †December 12th, 2019, Dallas

87

Pope Francis

266th pope of the Catholic Church

*December 17th, 1936, Flores

27

Kungs

French DJ, record producer and musician

*December 17th, 1996, Aix-en-Provence

93

Armin Mueller-Stahl

German actor

*December 17th, 1930, Sovetsk

81

Muhammadu Buhari

Former President of Nigeria

*December 17th, 1942, Daura

82

Klaus Kinkel

Chairman of the FDP (1936-2019)

*December 17th, 1936, Metzingen †March 4th, 2019, Sankt Augustin

48

Milla Jovovich

Ukrainian-American actress and model

*December 17th, 1975, Kyiv

51

Fernando Silva

Badminton player

*December 17th, 1972, Peniche

78

Frank Martinus Arion

Writer and poet (1936-2015)

*December 17th, 1936, Curaçao †September 28th, 2015, Curaçao

52

Joel Berti

American actor

*December 17th, 1971, Avon

87

Tommy Steele

British entertainer

*December 17th, 1936, Bermondsey

24

Holly Humberstone

British singer-songwriter

*December 17th, 1999, Grantham

64

Gregg Araki

American film director

*December 17th, 1959, Los Angeles

61

Frank Lieberam

German association football player and manager

*December 17th, 1962, Halberstadt

75

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu

Turkish economist, politician (born 1948)

*December 17th, 1948, Nazımiye

85

Jean-Claude Drouot

Belgian actor and theatre director

*December 17th, 1938, Lessines

87

Patrice Wymore

American actress and singer (1926-2014)

*December 17th, 1926, Miltonvale †March 22nd, 2014, Portland Parish

75

Gilles Tremblay

Canadian ice hockey player

*December 17th, 1938, Quebec City †November 26th, 2014, Repentigny

45

Manny Pacquiao

Filipino boxer, basketball player, singer, actor and politician and a philantropist

*December 17th, 1978, Kibawe

78

Jüri Talvet

Estonian poet

*December 17th, 1945, Pärnu

Same year
Born in 1939

85

Hans Kloft

German historian of classical antiquity

*April 10th, 1939, Düsseldorf

64

João César Monteiro

Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic

*February 2nd, 1939, Figueira da Foz †February 3rd, 2003, Lisbon

77

Dudley Storey

New Zealand rower

*November 27th, 1939, Wairoa †March 6th, 2017, Auckland

84

Thilo Ulbert

German christian archaeologist

*June 20th, 1939, Augsburg

83

Tina Turner

American-born Swiss singer and songwriter (1939–2023)

*November 26th, 1939, Brownsville †May 24th, 2023, Küsnacht

83

Hans-Christian Ströbele

German lawyer and politician (1939–2022)

*June 7th, 1939, Halle (Saale) †August 29th, 2022, Moabit

78

Oscar Fulloné

Argentine association football player and manager (1939-2017)

*April 4th, 1939, La Plata †May 22nd, 2017, Casablanca

84

Helga Piur

German actress and voice actress

*May 24th, 1939, Berlin

84

Yves Meyer

French mathematician

*July 19th, 1939, Paris

84

Margaret Atwood

Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist,pépiniériste and inventor

*November 18th, 1939, Ottawa

56

Peter Aust

1939-1996 German actor

*March 17th, 1939, Bytom †January 26th, 1996, Bad Wildungen

70

Dixie Carter

American actress (1939–2010)

*May 25th, 1939, McLemoresville †April 10th, 2010, Houston

78

Irio De Paula

Brazilian composer

*May 10th, 1939, Rio de Janeiro †May 23rd, 2017, Rome

78

Peter Grünberg

German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)

*May 18th, 1939, Plzeň †April 7th, 2018, Jülich

59

Dusty Springfield

British singer (1939–1999)

*April 16th, 1939, London †March 2nd, 1999, Henley-on-Thames

74

Karen Black

American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter (1939-2013)

*July 1st, 1939, Park Ridge †August 8th, 2013, Santa Monica

80

Karel Gott

Czech singer and actor

*July 14th, 1939, Plzeň †October 1st, 2019, Prague

84

Brenda Vaccaro

American actress

*November 18th, 1939, Brooklyn

80

Valerie Harper

American actress (1939-2019)

*August 22nd, 1939, Suffern †August 30th, 2019, Los Angeles

84

Jane Alexander

American actress (b. 1939)

*October 28th, 1939, Boston

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1939 is a normal year and no leap year.

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