Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Bill Flemming |
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Birthdate | September 03, 1926 |
Birth Place | Illinois |
Age (in 2024) | 98 Years Old |
Zodiac | Virgo |
Occupation | Sportscaster |
Bill Flemming is best known as Sportscaster who has born on September 03, 1926 in Illinois. Currently, Bill Flemming is 98 years, 2 months and 18 days old. Bill Flemming will celebrate 99th birthday on Wednesday, 3rd of September 2025. Below the countdown to Bill Flemming upcoming birthday.
Famous for hosting ABC Sports' popular Wide World of Sports program, this American journalist and announcer also worked for NBC's Today Show and served as President of the Detroit Sports Broadcasters Association.
After graduating from the speech program at the University of Michigan, he began his broadcasting career at Detroit's WWJ-TV NBC affiliate.
During his years as the principal announcer for Wide World of Sports, he covered the United States Open, the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, and various Olympic events.
He grew up in Chicago, Illinois and Ann Arbor, Michigan. He and his wife, Barbara Forster, later settled in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, with their two children.
In 1972, he interviewed the famous chess player Bobby Fischer.
Bill Flemming is 98 years old today.
Bill Flemming was born on September 03, 1926 in Illinois.
Bill Flemming zodiac sign is Virgo.
Bill Flemming was best known as Sportscaster.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Bill Flemming's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1950 | "Nino" Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers' champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix. |
1954 | The People's Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China-controlled islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan Strait Crisis. |
1967 | Dagen H in Sweden: Traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight. |
1971 | Qatar becomes an independent state. |
1976 | Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars. |
1978 | During the Rhodesian Bush War a group of ZIPRA guerrillas shot down civilian Vickers Viscount aircraft (Air Rhodesia Flight 825) with a Soviet-made SAM Strela-2; of 56 passengers and crew 38 people died in crash, 10 were massacred by the guerrillas at the site. |
1981 | The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, an international bill of rights for women, is instituted by the United Nations. |
1987 | In a coup d'état in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major Pierre Buyoya. |
1989 | Varig Flight 254 crashes in the Amazon rainforest near São José do Xingu in Brazil, killing 12. |
1997 | Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (Tupolev Tu-134) crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64. |
2001 | In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls. |
2004 | Beslan school siege results in over 330 fatalities, including 186 children. |
2010 | After taking off from Dubai International Airport, UPS Airlines Flight 6 develops an in-flight fire in the cargo hold and crashes near Nad Al Sheba, killing both crew members on board. |
2016 | The U.S. and China, together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions, both formally ratify the Paris global climate agreement. |
2017 | North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test. |
1996 | The birth of Neilson Powless, American cyclist |
1996 | The birth of Osgar O'Hoisin, Irish tennis player |
1996 | The birth of Zhang Tingting, Chinese handball player |
1996 | The birth of Brad Walsh, Australian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Yoane Wissa, French footballer |
1997 | The birth of Andrew Austin, Irish cricketer |
1997 | The birth of Sulayman Bojang, Norwegian footballer |
1997 | The birth of Reniece Boyce, West Indian cricketer |
1997 | The birth of Carter Kieboom, American baseball player |
1997 | The birth of Petar Krstić, Macedonian footballer |
1997 | The birth of Devin Singletary, American football player |
1997 | The birth of Bernard Tekpetey, Ghanaian footballer |
1997 | The birth of Christopher Udeh, Nigerian footballer |
2000 | The birth of Brandon Williams, English footballer |
2010 | The birth of Tanitoluwa Adewumi, Nigerian-American chess player |
2013 | The death of Ralph M. Holman, American lawyer and judge (b. 1914) |
2013 | The death of Pedro Ferriz Santacruz, Mexican-American journalist (b. 1921) |
2013 | The death of José Ramón Larraz, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of Janet Lembke, American author and scholar (b. 1933) |
2013 | The death of Don Meineke, American basketball player (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Lewis Morley, Hong Kong-Australian photographer (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Aarno Raninen, Finnish singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1944) |
2014 | The death of A. P. Venkateswaran, Indian soldier and politician, 14th Foreign Secretary of India (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Adrian Cadbury, English rower and businessman (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Judy Carne, English actress and comedian (b. 1939) |
2015 | The death of Carter Lay, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1971) |
2015 | The death of Zhang Zhen, Chinese general and politician (b. 1914) |
2015 | The death of Chandra Bahadur Dangi, world record holder for shortest man (b. 1939) |
2017 | The death of Walter Becker, American musician, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1950) |
2017 | The death of John Ashbery, American poet (b. 1927) |
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