From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 03/Mar/2018
Hi Steemians,
This is an effort to provide some information on Five selected famous personalities born on this day.
Courtesy of this information goes to onthisday.com, famousbirthdays.com and wikipedia.org and image source is mentioned under "Source" just below each image.
1. Jessica Biel
Jessica Biel is an American actress, model, producer and singer who started her career as a vocalist and went to act in serials and then movies.
Her movies include Rules of Attraction, Blade: Trinity, Stealth, The A-Team, Total Recall.
Biel is known for her charitable works.
She is a 2 time nominee into Golden Globe Awards.
It's also notable that she is married to famous singer Justin Timberlake.
2. Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish scientist, engineer and inventor who is the inventor of first practical telephone and also founder of American Telephone and Telegraph Company(AT&T).
As a kid, Bell had interest in science and experimentation on sounds and all.
Bell was also part of other inventions like photophones, hydrofoils, metal detector and other inventions related to aeronautics.
3. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Jackie Joyner-Kersee is an American retired track and field athlete and one of the all time greats in the history of heptathlon and long jump sports.
She has won a total of 6 Olympic medals (3 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals) across 4 Olympics.
She currently works on the board of directors of USA Track and Field (USTF).
She is also a 5 time gold medalist in World Championships and a gold medal winner at Pan American Games.
4. Jamsetji Tata
Jamsetji Tata was an Indian industrialist and founder of Tata Group, India's biggest conglomerate company.
He is rightly called as Father of Indian Industry.
Tata had 4 goals in his life it seems and those goals are to set up a world class hotel, a iron and steel plant, a world learning institution and a hydro-electric plant.
Taj Hotel in Mumbai fulfilled his first dream and he died before realizing the remaining 3 goals although his successors were able to fulfill all those goals.
5. Inzamam-ul-Haq
Inzamam-ul-Haq is a Pakistani former cricketer who played tests and ODI's for Pakistan and is regarded as one of the world's best batsman.
He is a leading run scorer from Pakistan in ODI's and third highest run scorer in tests for Pakistan.
He has been honoured with Pakistan's highest civilian award Sitara-e-Imtiaz in 2005.
Inzamam captained and later worked as batting consultant of Pakistan cricket team.
He also coached Afghanistan cricket as temporary head coach.
He currently works as Chief Selector of Pakistan Cricket Team.
A nice post dude, love the fact that there are so many history enthusiasts on steemit.
Your biographies and short and interesting easy to remember. :)
Thank you @seltkirk. Nice to know that you found this useful.
I am not much into history and all, so I took up this challenge to read first and write about 5 people celebrating their Birthday.
I appreciate and celebrate these wonderful people. . It is good to read about Alexander Graham Bell the inventor
Thank you @funkylove, it's always nice to remember the achievers. Graham Bell is a great human being apart from being a great inventor.
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