December 23rd, 1984

Born on December 23rd, 1984

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What happened on December 23rd, 1984?

December 23rd, 1984

After experiencing an engine fire, Aeroflot Flight 3519 attempts to make an emergency landing at Krasnoyarsk International Airport but crashes, killing 110 of the 111 people on board.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_3519

December 23rd, 1984

An engine fire caused Aeroflot Flight 3519 to crash shortly after takeoff from Krasnoyarsk, USSR, killing all but one of the 111 people on board.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_3519

What else happened on December 23rd?

December 23rd, 1776

American Revolutionary War: American troops, overwhelmed by British reinforcements, retreated from the Battle of Iron Works Hill.

December 23rd, 1997

The Pioneer Helmet, one of only six Anglo-Saxon helmets to be discovered, was first placed on public display.

December 23rd, 2008

The Guinean military engineered a coup d'état, announcing that it planned to rule the country for two years prior to a new presidential election.

December 23rd, 1958

Tokyo Tower, then the world's tallest freestanding tower, opened.

December 23rd, 1957

Leading the Australia national cricket team, Ian Craig became the youngest-ever Test cricket captain at the time.

December 23rd, 1938

The first living specimen of a coelacanth, long believed to be extinct, was discovered in a South African fisherman's catch.

December 23rd, 1919

The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was enacted, lifting most of the existing common-law restrictions on women in the United Kingdom.

December 23rd, 1916

First World War: Allied forces gained a strategic victory at the Battle of Magdhaba on the Sinai Peninsula.

December 23rd, 1815

Jane Austen's novel Emma was first published.

December 23rd, 1793

French Revolution: A Royalist counter-revolutionary army was decisively defeated at the Battle of Savenay, although fighting continued in the War in the Vendée for years afterward.

December 23rd, 1783

George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis (painting shown).

December 23rd, 2015

A bomb explodes at Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport, killing one airport cleaner. The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks claim responsibility for the attack four days later.

December 23rd, 2008

A coup d'état occurs in Guinea hours after the death of President Lansana Conté.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on December 23rd

Born on December 23rd, 1984

39

Alison Sudol

American musician

*December 23rd, 1984, Seattle

39

Dudu Aharon

Israeli singer and songwriter

*December 23rd, 1984, Kiryat Ekron

39

Josh Satin

American baseball player

*December 23rd, 1984, Los Angeles

39

Bernard Pollard

Player of American football

*December 23rd, 1984, Fort Wayne

39

Keto Shimizu

Television and comic book writer

*December 23rd, 1984, Princeton

39

Cary Williams

American football player

*December 23rd, 1984, Miami

39

Adam Bay

German actor

*December 23rd, 1984, Memmingen

39

Adnan Hasković

Bosnian actor

*December 23rd, 1984, Sarajevo

Same Day
Who's birthday is on December 23rd?

38

Bonez MC

German rapper

*December 23rd, 1985, Hamburg

30

Alexis Floyd

American actress, dancer and singer

*December 23rd, 1993, Cleveland

42

Maritza Correia

Puerto Rican swimmer, Olympic silver medalist, former world record-breaker

*December 23rd, 1981, San Juan

91

Henri Wallon

French politician (1812-1904)

*December 23rd, 1812, Valenciennes †November 13th, 1904, Paris

21

Finn Wolfhard

Canadian actor and musician

*December 23rd, 2002, Vancouver

37

Balázs Dzsudzsák

Hungarian association football player

*December 23rd, 1986, Debrecen

33

Brice Dja Djédjé

Ivorian association football player

*December 23rd, 1990, Aboudé

45

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson

British television personality

*December 23rd, 1971, Hampshire †February 8th, 2017, South Kensington

41

Thomas Rohregger

Road bicycle racer

*December 23rd, 1982, Innsbruck

31

Oscar Riesebeek

Dutch cyclist

*December 23rd, 1992, Ede

40

Hanley Ramírez

Dominican baseball player

*December 23rd, 1983, Santo Domingo

96

Helmut Schmidt

Chancellor of West Germany (1974-1982), SPD

*December 23rd, 1918, Hamburg †November 10th, 2015, Hamburg

46

Tore Johansen

Jazz trumpeter

*December 23rd, 1977, Bodø

90

Akihito

Emperor of Japan from 1989 to 2019

*December 23rd, 1933, Tokyo Imperial Palace

41

Beatriz Luengo

Spanish musician

*December 23rd, 1982, Madrid

38

Christian Hildebrand

German handball player

*December 23rd, 1985, Offenbach am Main

73

Mathilde Wesendonck

German poet and mistress of the composer Richard Wagner

*December 23rd, 1828, Elberfeld †August 31st, 1902, Altmünster

59

Zindzi Mandela

South African diplomat and poet

*December 23rd, 1960, Soweto †July 13th, 2020, Johannesburg

34

Liis Koger

Estonian artist and poet

*December 23rd, 1989, Pärnu

56

Carla Bruni

Italian and French singer, model and spouse of former president of France

*December 23rd, 1967, Turin

Same year
Born in 1984

39

Basshunter

Swedish singer, record producer and DJ

*December 22nd, 1984, Halmstad

40

Marc Zwiebler

German badminton player

*March 13th, 1984, Bonn

39

Helene Fischer

German singer

*August 5th, 1984, Krasnoyarsk

40

Juliette Armanet

French singer

*March 4th, 1984, Lille

39

Robert Huth

German association football player

*August 18th, 1984, East Berlin

39

Molly Nilsson

Swedish record producer, keyboardist and singer-songwriter

*December 14th, 1984, Stockholm

39

Sony Dwi Kuncoro

Indonesian badminton player

*July 7th, 1984, Surabaya

40

Salakjit Ponsana

Badminton player

*February 14th, 1984, Bangkok

39

Avril Lavigne

Canadian singer and songwriter (born 1984)

*September 27th, 1984, Belleville

40

Chanan Colman

Danish-American-Israeli former basketball player

*March 10th, 1984, Gladsaxe Municipality

39

Scarlett Johansson

American actress (born 1984)

*November 22nd, 1984, Manhattan

40

Valeria Sorokina

Russian badminton player

*March 29th, 1984, Reshetikha, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

39

French Montana

American rapper

*November 9th, 1984, Casablanca

40

Patrícia Kimberly

Brazilian pornographic actress

*January 6th, 1984, São Paulo

40

Duanganong Aroonkesorn

Thai badminton player

*February 6th, 1984, Bangkok

39

Valeriy Atrashchenkov

Badminton player

*August 20th, 1984, Kharkiv

39

Andrej Ashmarin

Badminton player

*November 9th, 1984, Moscow

39

Mark Zuckerberg

American internet entrepreneur

*May 14th, 1984, White Plains

39

Jinjin Harder

German singer

*August 30th, 1984, Wuhan

39

Ave Pajo

Estonian badminton and football player

*July 9th, 1984, Estonia

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Yes: 1984 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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