Updated at November 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Charles Duke Jr. |
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Birthdate | October 03, 1935 |
Birth Place | Charlotte, NC |
Age (in 2024) | 89 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Astronaut |
Charles Duke Jr. is best known as Astronaut who has born on October 03, 1935 in Charlotte, NC. Currently, Charles Duke Jr. is 89 years, 1 months and 14 days old. Charles Duke Jr. will celebrate 90th birthday on Friday, 3rd of October 2025. Below the countdown to Charles Duke Jr. upcoming birthday.
Apollo 16 astronaut who was the tenth person to walk on the moon.
Like many other astronauts, he studied at the United States Naval Academy and flew planes for the U.S. Air Force.
He was CAPCOM - the main contact at ground control - for the first moon landing.
He had two children and nine grandchildren with wife Dorothy Meade.
Scott Glenn imitated his distinctive southern drawl while playing CAPCOM in the film Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon.
Charles Duke Jr. is 89 years old today.
Charles Duke Jr. was born on October 03, 1935 in Charlotte, NC.
Charles Duke Jr. zodiac sign is Libra.
Charles Duke Jr. was best known as Astronaut.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Charles Duke Jr.'s birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Charles Duke Jr.'s birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1963 | A violent coup in Honduras begins two decades of military rule. |
1981 | The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths. |
1985 | The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight, carrying two DSCS-III Satellites on STS-51-J. |
1986 | TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened. |
1989 | A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed. |
1990 | The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day. |
1991 | Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
1993 | An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die. |
1995 | O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. |
2008 | The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush. |
2009 | Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council. |
2013 | At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa. |
2015 | Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan. |
2021 | Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy. |
2022 | Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
1987 | The birth of Martin Plowman, English race car driver |
1987 | The birth of Starley, Australian pop singer |
1988 | The birth of Alicia Vikander, Swedish actress |
1988 | The birth of Dustin Gazley, American ice hockey player |
1988 | The birth of ASAP Rocky, American rapper and songwriter |
1989 | The birth of Nate Montana, American football player |
1989 | The birth of Alex Trimble, Irish singer |
1990 | The birth of Johan Le Bon, French cyclist |
1991 | The birth of Jenny McLoughlin, English sprinter |
1991 | The birth of Aki Takajo, Japanese singer |
1993 | The birth of Raffaele Di Gennaro, Italian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Victoria Bosio, Argentinian tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Lil Tracy, American rapper |
1997 | The birth of Jin Boyang, Chinese figure skater |
2004 | The birth of Noah Schnapp, American actor |
2012 | The death of Robert F. Christy, American physicist and astrophysicist (b. 1916) |
2012 | The death of Albie Roles, English footballer (b. 1921) |
2013 | The death of Sari Abacha, Nigerian footballer (b. 1978) |
2013 | The death of Sergei Belov, Russian basketball player and coach (b. 1944) |
2013 | The death of Joan Thirsk, English cryptologist, historian, and academic (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Ewen Gilmour, New Zealand comedian and television host (b. 1963) |
2014 | The death of Benedict Groeschel, American priest, psychologist, and talk show host (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Jean-Jacques Marcel, French footballer (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Kevin Metheny, American businessman (b. 1954) |
2014 | The death of Ward Ruyslinck, Belgian author (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Denis Healey, English soldier and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1917) |
2015 | The death of Muhammad Nawaz Khan, Pakistani historian and author (b. 1943) |
2015 | The death of Javed Iqbal, Pakistani philosopher and judge (b. 1925) |
2021 | The death of Todd Akin, American politician (b. 1947) |
2021 | The death of Dan Petrescu, Romanian businessman and billionaire (b. 1953) |
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