December 27th, 1968

Born on December 27th, 1968

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What happened on December 27th, 1968?

December 27th, 1968

North Central Airlines Flight 458 crashes at O'Hare International Airport, killing 28.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Central_Airlines_Flight_458

What else happened on December 27th?

December 27th, 2002

The human-cloning company Clonaid claimed to have performed the first reproductive cloning of a human, but provided no evidence for the claim.

December 27th, 1997

Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Billy Wright was assassinated in HM Prison Maze by members of the Irish National Liberation Army.

December 27th, 1985

The body of murdered American primatologist Dian Fossey was discovered inside her cabin in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.

December 27th, 1979

Soviet–Afghan War: Soviet troops stormed Tajbeg Palace outside Kabul and killed Afghan president Hafizullah Amin and his 100–150 elite guards.

December 27th, 1966

A group of three men made the first descent into the Cave of Swallows (pictured), the largest known cave shaft in the world, in Aquismón, Mexico.

December 27th, 1932

New York City's Radio City Music Hall opened with the world's largest auditorium at the time.

December 27th, 1929

Joseph Stalin announced the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class", beginning a period of political repression against prosperous peasants.

December 27th, 1922

The Imperial Japanese Navy commissioned Hōshō (pictured), the world's first purpose-built aircraft carrier.

December 27th, 1918

A public speech by the Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Poznań sparked the Greater Poland uprising against Germany.

December 27th, 1904

The stage play Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, by Scottish author J. M. Barrie, premiered in London.

December 27th, 1845

John L. O'Sullivan, in his newspaper the New York Morning News, argued that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country "by the right of our manifest destiny", popularizing the term's use.

December 27th, 1831

HMS Beagle departed Plymouth, England, on a voyage to South America that established Charles Darwin's standing as a naturalist.

December 27th, 1657

Citizens of New Netherland presented the Flushing Remonstrance to Peter Stuyvesant, the director general of the colonial province, requesting an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship.

December 27th, 1521

A period of unrest in Wittenberg following the arrival of three men of the Radical Reformation, known as the Zwickau prophets, was quelled after Martin Luther's release from custody.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on December 27th

Born on December 27th, 1968

55

Kevin O'Sullivan

American college baseball coach

*December 27th, 1968, Goshen

55

Massimo Rastelli

Italian association football player and manager

*December 27th, 1968, Torre del Greco

55

Diego El Cigala

Spanish flamenco singer

*December 27th, 1968, Madrid

55

Lubomir Geraskov

Gymnast

*December 27th, 1968, Sofia

55

Thomas Heinisch

Austrian composer

*December 27th, 1968, Vienna

55

Dubravka Mijatović

Actress

*December 27th, 1968, Belgrade

55

Ken Garito

American actor

*December 27th, 1968, Brooklyn

Same Day
Who's birthday is on December 27th?

51

Michael Wiesinger

German association football player and manager

*December 27th, 1972, Burghausen

59

Tor Mikkel Wara

Norwegian politician

*December 27th, 1964, Karasjok Municipality

58

Salman Khan

Indian actor and producer (born 1965)

*December 27th, 1965, Indore

90

Marlene Dietrich

German and American actress and singer

*December 27th, 1901, Rote Insel †May 6th, 1992, 8th arrondissement of Paris

57

Marianne Elliott

British theatre director

*December 27th, 1966, London

54

Guido Westerwelle

German politician (FDP), Foreign Minister of Germany (1961-2016)

*December 27th, 1961, Bad Honnef †March 18th, 2016, Cologne

75

Gérard Depardieu

French actor (born 1948)

*December 27th, 1948, Châteauroux

38

Adil Rami

Moroccan and French footballer

*December 27th, 1985, Bastia

57

Bill Goldberg

American professional wrestler, kickboxer, actor, and football player (born 1966)

*December 27th, 1966, Tulsa

62

Laurent Roussey

Footballer

*December 27th, 1961, Nîmes

72

Louis Pasteur

French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)

*December 27th, 1822, Dole †September 28th, 1895, Saint-Cloud

61

Joe Mantello

American director and actor

*December 27th, 1962, Rockford

75

Joachim Poß

German politician (SPD)

*December 27th, 1948, Westerholt

42

David Aardsma

Baseball pitcher

*December 27th, 1981, Denver

66

Jean-Louis Bricout

French politician

*December 27th, 1957, Busigny

54

Marco Antonio Regil Pérez

American game show host

*December 27th, 1969, Ciudad Obregón

58

Christian Kleiminger

German politician and bank teller

*December 27th, 1965, Osnabrück

69

Ullrich Dießner

East German rower

*December 27th, 1954, Meissen

43

Elizabeth Rodriguez

American actress

*December 27th, 1980, Manhattan

73

Charmian Carr

American actress (1942–2016)

*December 27th, 1942, Chicago †September 17th, 2016, Los Angeles

Same year
Born in 1968

55

Casper Van Dien

American actor

*December 18th, 1968, Milton

55

Sidse Babett Knudsen

Danish actress

*November 22nd, 1968, Copenhagen

55

Peter Runggaldier

Italian alpine skier

*December 29th, 1968, Brixen

55

Chris Hunt

English badminton player

*December 1st, 1968, Bolton

55

Massi Furlan

Italian-American actor and film producer

*September 29th, 1968, Treviso

56

Minarti Timur

Indonesian badminton player, coach

*March 24th, 1968, Surabaya

56

Alan Budikusuma

Badminton player

*March 29th, 1968, Surabaya

56

Céline Dion

Canadian singer (born 1968)

*March 30th, 1968, Charlemagne

56

Rexy Mainaky

Badminton player

*March 9th, 1968, Ternate Island

55

Hugh Jackman

Australian actor (born 1968)

*October 12th, 1968, Sydney

56

Petra Schubert

Badminton player

*January 31st, 1968, Finsterwalde

55

Darren Le Tissier

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1968, Bailiwick of Guernsey

56

Árni Þór Hallgrímsson

Badminton player

*March 10th, 1968, Akranes

55

Marine Le Pen

French politician (born 1968)

*August 5th, 1968, Neuilly-sur-Seine

56

Monica Mæland

Norwegian lawyer and politician

*February 6th, 1968, Bergen

55

Gillian Anderson

American-British actress (born 1968)

*August 9th, 1968, Chicago

55

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović

Croatian politician and diplomat

*April 29th, 1968, Rijeka

55

Larry Sanger

American former professor, co-founder of Wikipedia, founder of Citizendium and other projects

*July 16th, 1968, Bellevue

55

Ralph Brinkhaus

German politician

*June 15th, 1968, Wiedenbrück

55

Kylie Minogue

Australian singer and actress (born 1968)

*May 28th, 1968, Melbourne

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Leap year

Yes: 1968 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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