Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Clara Hughes |
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Birthdate | August 27, 1972 |
Birth Place | Winnipeg, Canada |
Age (in 2024) | 52 Years Old |
Zodiac | Virgo |
Occupation | Cyclist |
Clara Hughes is best known as Cyclist who has born on August 27, 1972 in Winnipeg, Canada. Currently, Clara Hughes is 52 years, 2 months and 27 days old. Clara Hughes will celebrate 53rd birthday on Wednesday, 27th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Clara Hughes upcoming birthday.
Olympic cyclist and speed skater and an inductee into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame who won two bronze medals in 1996 Summer games and one gold, one silver, two bronze medals over the course of three Winter games.
She did not envision herself as an athlete growing up, having partaken in smoking, drinking and drugs growing up. She was 16 when she started speed skating, moving to cycling in 1990.
As of the 2010 Winter games, she was one of only five total people to ever place in both the Winter and Summer Olympic games, becoming the only Canadian to do so, and was the only person to ever win multiple medals in each games.
She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She was awarded the Order of Manitoba in 2006 and a year later was made a member of the Order of Canada.
Eddie Eagan is one of the few other athletes to have medaled in both the Winter and Summer Olympic games.
Clara Hughes is 52 years old today.
Clara Hughes was born on August 27, 1972 in Winnipeg, Canada.
Clara Hughes zodiac sign is Virgo.
Clara Hughes was best known as Cyclist.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Clara Hughes's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Clara Hughes's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1964 | South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh enters into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, who had both been involved in plots to unseat Khánh. |
1971 | An attempted coup d'état fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations. |
1975 | The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group. |
1979 | The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland. |
1980 | 1980 South Korean presidential election: After successfully staging the Coup d'état of May Seventeenth, General Chun Doo-hwan, running unopposed, has the National Conference for Unification elect him President of the Fourth Republic of Korea. |
1980 | A massive bomb planted by extortionist John Birges explodes at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, after a failed disarming attempt by the FBI. Although the hotel is damaged, no one is injured. |
1982 | Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa. Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide claim to be avenging the massacre of 1.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}1⁄2 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian genocide. |
1985 | Major General Muhammadu Buhari, Chairman of the Supreme Military Council of Nigeria, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Major General Ibrahim Babangida. |
1991 | The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. |
1991 | Moldova declares independence from the USSR. |
2003 | Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant. |
2003 | The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns of the North Korean nuclear weapons program. |
2006 | Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, bound for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash. |
2009 | Internal conflict in Myanmar: The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region. |
2011 | Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage. |
1987 | The birth of Joel Grant, English-Jamaican footballer |
1987 | The birth of Darren McFadden, American football player |
1989 | The birth of Romain Amalfitano, French footballer |
1989 | The birth of Juliana Cannarozzo, American figure skater and actress |
1990 | The birth of Tori Bowie, American athlete |
1990 | The birth of Luuk de Jong, Dutch footballer |
1991 | The birth of Lee Sung-yeol, South Korean actor and singer |
1992 | The birth of Blake Jenner, American actor and singer |
1992 | The birth of Stephen Morris, American football player |
1992 | The birth of Kim Petras, German singer-songwriter |
1992 | The birth of Ayame Goriki, Japanese actress and singer |
1993 | The birth of Sarah Hecken, German figure skater |
1993 | The birth of Olivier Le Gac, French cyclist |
1995 | The birth of Sergey Sirotkin, Russian race car driver |
1998 | The birth of Kevin Huerter, American basketball player |
2010 | The death of Luna Vachon, Canadian-American wrestler and manager (b. 1962) |
2012 | The death of Neville Alexander, South African linguist and activist (b. 1936) |
2012 | The death of Malcolm Browne, American journalist and photographer (b. 1931) |
2012 | The death of Art Heyman, American basketball player (b. 1941) |
2012 | The death of Ivica Horvat, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1926) |
2012 | The death of Richard Kingsland, Australian captain and pilot (b. 1916) |
2013 | The death of Chen Liting, Chinese director and playwright (b. 1910) |
2013 | The death of Bill Peach, Australian journalist (b. 1935) |
2013 | The death of Dave Thomas, Welsh golfer and architect (b. 1934) |
2014 | The death of Jacques Friedel, French physicist and academic (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Valeri Petrov, Bulgarian poet, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1920) |
2014 | The death of Benno Pludra, German author (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Kazi Zafar Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician, 8th Prime Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1939) |
2015 | The death of Pascal Chaumeil, French director and screenwriter (b. 1961) |
2015 | The death of Darryl Dawkins, American basketball player and coach (b. 1957) |
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