Updated at December 15, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Deborah Sampson |
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Birthdate | December 17, 1760 |
Birth Place | Plympton, MA |
Age (in 2024) | 263 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | War Hero |
Deborah Sampson is best known as War Hero who has born on December 17, 1760 in Plympton, MA. Currently, Deborah Sampson is 263 years, 11 months and 29 days old. Deborah Sampson will celebrate 264th birthday on Tuesday, 17th of December 2024. Below the countdown to Deborah Sampson upcoming birthday.
Revolutionary War heroine who dressed as a man and successfully served in the Continental Army for more than 17 months.
Her first attempt at joining the army in the guise of a man failed when she was discovered to be holding her quill pen like a woman.
She suffered two leg wounds in 1782, however, fearing discovery, she refused treatment and removed one of the musket balls with a pocket knife.
Her grandmother, Priscilla Mullins Alden, sailed to America on the Mayflower. She was married to Benjamin Gannett and together they had four children.
She appealed to Governor John Hancock and finally received payment for her army service.
Deborah Sampson is 263 years old today.
Deborah Sampson was born on December 17, 1760 in Plympton, MA.
Deborah Sampson zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Deborah Sampson was best known as War Hero.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Deborah Sampson's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Deborah Sampson's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1981 | American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy. |
1983 | Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London. Three police officers and three civilians are killed. |
1989 | Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timișoara, Romania, with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire. |
1989 | Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years. |
1989 | The Simpsons premieres on television with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire". |
1997 | Aerosvit Flight 241: A Yakovlev Yak-42 crashes into the Pierian Mountains near Thessaloniki Airport in Thessaloniki, Greece, killing all 70 people on board. |
2002 | Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years. |
2003 | The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend, Maxine Carr, is found guilty of perverting the course of justice. |
2003 | SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight. |
2003 | Sex work rights activists establish December 17 (or "D17") as International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers to memorialize victims of a serial killer who targeted prostitutes, and highlight State violence against sex workers by police and others. |
2005 | Anti-World Trade Organization protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. |
2005 | Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicates the throne as King of Bhutan. |
2009 | MVÂ Danny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals. |
2010 | Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring. |
2014 | The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after severing them in 1961. |
1988 | The birth of Craig Sutherland, Scottish footballer |
1991 | The birth of James Hurst, American football player |
1991 | The birth of Jordan Rankin, Australian rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Atsedu Tsegay, Ethiopian runner |
1992 | The birth of Quinton de Kock, South African cricketer |
1992 | The birth of Joshua Ingram, Canadian drummer and percussionist |
1993 | The birth of Patricia Kú Flores, Peruvian tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Lloyd Perrett, New Zealand rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Nat Wolff, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player and actor |
1996 | The birth of Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Russian figure skater |
1997 | The birth of Naiktha Bains, British-Australian tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Shoma Uno, Japanese figure skater |
1998 | The birth of Jasmine Armfield, English actress |
1998 | The birth of Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer |
1999 | The birth of Mirei Sasaki, Japanese idol |
2013 | The death of Janet Rowley, American geneticist and biologist (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of Conny van Rietschoten, Dutch sailor (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Dieter Grau, German-American scientist and engineer (b. 1913) |
2014 | The death of Richard C. Hottelet, American journalist (b. 1917) |
2014 | The death of Oleh Lysheha, Ukrainian poet and playwright (b. 1949) |
2014 | The death of Lowell Steward, American captain (b. 1919) |
2014 | The death of Ivan Vekić, Croatian colonel, lawyer, and politician, Croatian Minister of the Interior (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Hal Brown, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Osamu Hayaishi, American-Japanese biochemist and academic (b. 1920) |
2015 | The death of Michael Wyschogrod, German-American philosopher and theologian (b. 1928) |
2016 | The death of Benjamin A. Gilman, American soldier and politician (b. 1922) |
2016 | The death of Henry Heimlich, American doctor (b. 1920) |
2016 | The death of Gordon Hunt, American voice director (b. 1929) |
2020 | The death of Jeremy Bullock, English actor (b. 1945) |
2020 | The death of Allen Dines, American politician (b. 1921) |
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