From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 12/Sep/2018
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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. Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens was an American track and field athlete who was a 4 time Olympic gold medalist.
He was part of 1936 Berlin Olympics where he participated in 100 m, 200 m, long jump and 4 X 100 m relay and won gold medals in all those events.
His couldn't take part in any further Olympics games because of the prohibition imposed on him for not participating in the Sweden sports events soon after 1936 Olympics.
He was honoured with Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1976, Congressional Gold Medal in 1990, Living Legend Award in 1979.
He was inducted into U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983.
2. Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie was a French scientist and was daughter of famous scientist couple of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie.
She worked with her husband Pierre Joliot on discoveries related to artificial radioactivity.
She and her husband received Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 making the Curie family as the highest Nobel Prize winning family.
She was made officer of the Legion of Honour.
3. Paul Walker
Paul Walker was an American actor known for his role as Brian O.Conner in Fast and Furious and it's sequels.
His other movies include Joy Ride, Into the Blue, Hours, Running Scared.
He was the founder of Reach Out the Worldwide charity foundation and helped many who suffered during 2010 Haiti earthquake.
He met with an accident in 2013 and died as he was traveling in a car which crashed.
He was winner of MTV Movie Awards and Teen Choice Award.
4. Irina Rodnina
Irina Rodnina is an Russian former figure skater and current politician who was a winner of 3 gold medals in 3 consecutive Olympics in 1972 , 1976 and 1980 Olympics.
She also holds the record for being a winner of 10 consecutive gold medals at World Championships.
She got elected as a senator in 2007 and served as Member of Parliament.
Besides Olympics and World Championships, she also won 11 gold medals in European Championship.
5. Yaroslava Shvedova
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Yaroslava Shvedova Yaroslava Shvedova is an Russian-Kazakstani tennis player.
She is a winner of 2 grand slam doubles titles besides winning 2 WTA singles titles, 14 WTA doubles titles.
She was part of 2014 Incheon Asian Games event and won a bronze in team event.
Her grand slam doubles titles include a US Open and an Wimbledon Championships title.
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Dear sir Good afternoon.
Thank you for bringing these most renowned personalities of our society and their contribution to our society is very precious.
Happy birthday to all the Birthday boys and girls of this day.
God bless you dear sir.