Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Adrian Chen |
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Birthdate | November 23, 1984 |
Birth Place | United States |
Age (in 2024) | 39 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Journalist |
Adrian Chen is best known as Journalist who has born on November 23, 1984 in United States. Currently, Adrian Chen is 39 years, 11 months and 28 days old. Adrian Chen will celebrate 40th birthday on Saturday, 23rd of November 2024. Below the countdown to Adrian Chen upcoming birthday.
Writer who primarily works as a tech journalist for noteworthy publications and websites including The New Yorker and Gawker. He famously outed Reddit user Violentacrez a.k.a. Michael Brutsch who moderated controversial subreddit r/Jailbait that featured photos of underage girls taken in a sexual capacity and shared without their consent.Â
He started working for Gawker in 2009 after finishing an internship with Slate.Â
He also wrote an exposĂ© of Silk Road, a dark web market that faciliated the illegal sale of drugs and numerous other blackmarket items. The article prompted Senators Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin to call for the website to be shut down.Â
He has two sisters and his father Harry is an ER physician who also served as the Vermont Health Commissioner. His mother's name is Anne.Â
He directed a short film called The Moderators about internet moderators that was featured on Last Week Tonight hosted by John Oliver.
Adrian Chen is 39 years old today.
Adrian Chen was born on November 23, 1984 in United States.
Adrian Chen zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Adrian Chen was best known as Journalist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Adrian Chen's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1991 | Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury announces in a statement that he is HIV-positive. He dies the following day. |
1992 | The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
1996 | Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125. |
2001 | The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary. |
2003 | Rose Revolution: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections. |
2004 | The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated. |
2005 | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country. |
2006 | A series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003. |
2007 | MSÂ Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities. |
2009 | The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines; 58 opponents of Andal Ampatuan Jr. are kidnapped and killed. |
2010 | Bombardment of Yeonpyeong: North Korean artillery attack kills two civilians and two marines on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. |
2011 | Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity. |
2015 | Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing. |
2018 | Founders of Italian fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana issue an apology following a series of offensive advertisements on social media promoting a fashion show in Shanghai, China, which was canceled. |
2019 | The last Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia, Imam, dies, making the species officially extinct in the country. |
1984 | The birth of Amruta Khanvilkar, Indian actress and dancer |
1984 | The birth of Justin Turner, American baseball player |
1985 | The birth of Viktor An, South Korean speed skater |
1987 | The birth of Nicklas BÀckström, Swedish ice hockey player |
1987 | The birth of Snooki, American reality television personality |
1990 | The birth of Shaun Hutchinson, English footballer |
1990 | The birth of Eddy Kim, South Korean singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1990 | The birth of Alena Leonova, Russian figure skater |
1990 | The birth of Christopher Quiring, German footballer |
1991 | The birth of Ahmed Shehzad, Pakistani cricketer |
1992 | The birth of Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and actress |
1992 | The birth of Gabriel Landeskog, Swedish ice hockey player |
1994 | The birth of Wes Burns, Welsh footballer |
1995 | The birth of Kelly Rosen, Estonian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Anna Yanovskaya, Russian ice dancer |
2013 | The death of Connie Broden, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932) |
2013 | The death of Costanzo Preve, Italian philosopher and theorist (b. 1943) |
2014 | The death of Marion Barry, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia (b. 1936) |
2014 | The death of Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player (b. 1916) |
2014 | The death of Murray Oliver, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Pat Quinn, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1943) |
2015 | The death of Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Manmeet Bhullar, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1980) |
2015 | The death of Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920) |
2016 | The death of Rita BarberĂĄ Nolla, Spanish politician (b. 1948) |
2016 | The death of Ralph Branca, American baseball player (b. 1926) |
2016 | The death of Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of Joe Esposito, road manager for Elvis Presley (b. 1938) |
2017 | The death of Stela Popescu, Romanian actress (b. 1935) |
2020 | The death of Tarun Gogoi, Indian Chief Minister of Assam (b. 1934) |
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Wikipedia | Adrian Chen on Wikipedia |
Website | Adrian Chen's Webiste |
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