Updated at December 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Cliff Thorburn |
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Birthdate | January 16, 1948 |
Birth Place | Canada |
Age (in 2024) | 76 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Snooker Player |
Cliff Thorburn is best known as Snooker Player who has born on January 16, 1948 in Canada. Currently, Cliff Thorburn is 76 years, 11 months and 7 days old. Cliff Thorburn will celebrate 77th birthday on Thursday, 16th of January 2025. Below the countdown to Cliff Thorburn upcoming birthday.
Nicknamed "The Grinder," this snooker player won the 1980 World Championship and the 1985 Goya Matchroom Trophy.
He began competing professionally in England during the early 1970s.
He was the first player to get a maximum break at the World Championship, which he did in 1983.
He has two sons, Jamie and Andrew.
He beat the great Alex Higgins to win the 1980 World Championship.
Cliff Thorburn is 76 years old today.
Cliff Thorburn was born on January 16, 1948 in Canada.
Cliff Thorburn zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Cliff Thorburn was best known as Snooker Player.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Cliff Thorburn's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Cliff Thorburn's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1983 | Turkish Airlines Flight 158 crashes at Ankara EsenboÄŸa Airport in Ankara, Turkey, killing 47 and injuring 20. |
1991 | Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War. |
1992 | El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives. |
1995 | An avalanche hits the Icelandic village SúðavÃk, destroying 25 homes and burying 26 people, 14 of whom died. |
2001 | Second Congo War: Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards in Kinshasa. |
2001 | US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War. |
2002 | War in Afghanistan: The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban. |
2003 | The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry. |
2006 | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state. |
2011 | Syrian civil war: The Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) is established with the stated goal of re-organizing Syria along the lines of democratic confederalism. |
2012 | The Mali War begins when Tuareg militias start fighting the Malian government for independence. |
2016 | Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant. |
2018 | Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve. |
2020 | The first impeachment of Donald Trump formally moves into its trial phase in the United States Senate. |
2020 | The United States Senate ratifies the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement as a replacement for NAFTA. |
1985 | The birth of Joe Flacco, American football player |
1986 | The birth of Johannes Rahn, German footballer |
1986 | The birth of Mark Trumbo, American baseball player |
1986 | The birth of Reto Ziegler, Swiss footballer |
1987 | The birth of Jake Epstein, Canadian actor |
1987 | The birth of Charlotte Henshaw, English swimmer |
1988 | The birth of Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer |
1988 | The birth of Jorge Torres Nilo, Mexican footballer |
1991 | The birth of Matt Duchene, Canadian ice hockey player |
1993 | The birth of Hannes Anier, Estonian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Amandine Hesse, French tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Mikaela Turik, Australian-Canadian cricketer |
1996 | The birth of Jennie Kim, Korean singer |
1997 | The birth of Brendan Donovan, American baseball player |
2003 | The birth of Adriana Hernández, Mexican rhythmic gymnast |
2015 | The death of Miriam Akavia, Polish-Israeli author and translator (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Yao Beina, Chinese singer (b. 1981) |
2016 | The death of Joannis Avramidis, Greek sculptor (b. 1922) |
2016 | The death of Ted Marchibroda, American football player and coach (b. 1931) |
2017 | The death of Eugene Cernan, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1934) |
2018 | The death of Ed Doolan, British radio presenter (b. 1941) |
2018 | The death of Oliver Ivanović, Kosovo Serb politician (b. 1953) |
2019 | The death of John C. Bogle, American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (b. 1929) |
2019 | The death of Lorna Doom, American musician (b. 1958) |
2019 | The death of Chris Wilson, Australian musician (b. 1956) |
2020 | The death of Christopher Tolkien, British academic and editor (b. 1924) |
2021 | The death of Pedro Trebbau, German-born Venezuelan zoologist (b. 1929) |
2021 | The death of Chris Cramer, British journalist (b.1948) |
2021 | The death of Phil Spector, American record producer, songwriter (b. 1939) |
2022 | The death of Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Former Malian President (b. 1945) |
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