Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Derartu Tulu |
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Birthdate | March 21, 1972 |
Birth Place | Ethiopia |
Age (in 2024) | 52 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Runner |
Derartu Tulu is best known as Runner who has born on March 21, 1972 in Ethiopia. Currently, Derartu Tulu is 52 years, 7 months and 12 days old. Derartu Tulu will celebrate 53rd birthday on Friday, 21st of March 2025. Below the countdown to Derartu Tulu upcoming birthday.
Long-distance track, road, and marathon athlete who became the first black African woman to win an Olympic gold medal.
She won the gold medal for the 10,000 meters at the 1990 World Junior Championship in Athletics, which she followed up with her victory over South African Elana Meyer at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
She came in first at the 2009 New York City Marathon at the age of 37, beating several luminaries, including Salina Kosgei, Lyudmila Petrova, and arch-rival Paula Radcliffe.
She was born into the prominent and powerful Oromo ethnic group in Ethiopia.
She and fellow Ethiopian Olympian Kenenisa Bekele both grew up in the village of Bekoji.
Derartu Tulu is 52 years old today.
Derartu Tulu was born on March 21, 1972 in Ethiopia.
Derartu Tulu zodiac sign is Aries.
Derartu Tulu was best known as Runner.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Derartu Tulu's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Derartu Tulu's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1965 | Martin Luther King Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. |
1968 | Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO. |
1970 | The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco. |
1970 | San Diego Comic-Con, the largest pop and culture festival in the world, hosts its inaugural event. |
1980 | Cold War: U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet-Afghan War. |
1983 | The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic. |
1986 | Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships |
1989 | Transbrasil Flight 801 crashes into a slum near São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport, killing 25 people. |
1990 | Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule. |
1994 | The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force. |
1999 | Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. |
2000 | Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel. |
2006 | The social media site Twitter is founded. |
2019 | The 2019 Xiangshui chemical plant explosion occurs, killing at least 47 people and injuring 640 others. |
2022 | China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 crashes in Guangxi, China, killing 132 people. |
1990 | The birth of Mandy Capristo, German singer-songwriter and dancer |
1990 | The birth of Ryann Krais, American runner and heptathlete |
1990 | The birth of Alex Nimo, Liberian-American soccer player |
1991 | The birth of Luke Chapman, English footballer |
1991 | The birth of Antoine Griezmann, French footballer |
1992 | The birth of Lehlogonolo Masalesa, South African footballer |
1992 | The birth of KarolÃna PlÃÅ¡ková, Czech tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Kristýna PlÃÅ¡ková, Czech tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Jake Bidwell, English footballer |
1993 | The birth of Jesse Joronen, Finnish footballer |
1994 | The birth of Margaret Lu, American fencer |
1996 | The birth of Aurora Mikalsen, Norwegian footballer |
1997 | The birth of Martina Stoessel, Argentine actress |
2000 | The birth of Jace Norman, American actor |
2003 | The birth of Natalie Garcia, Canadian rhythmic gymnast |
2014 | The death of James Rebhorn, American actor (b. 1948) |
2014 | The death of Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Iraqi patriarch (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Ishaya Bakut, Nigerian general and politician, Governor of Benue State (b. 1947) |
2015 | The death of Chuck Bednarik, American lieutenant and football player (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of James C. Binnicker, American sergeant (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Hans Erni, Swiss painter, sculptor, and illustrator (b. 1909) |
2015 | The death of Jørgen Ingmann, Danish singer and guitarist (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Alberta Watson, Canadian actress (b. 1955) |
2017 | The death of Chuck Barris, American game show host and producer (b. 1929) |
2017 | The death of Colin Dexter, English author (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Martin McGuinness, Irish republican and deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1950) |
2017 | The death of Mike Hall, British cyclist (b. 1981) |
2019 | The death of Victor Hochhauser CBE, British music promoter (b. 1923) |
2019 | The death of Gonzalo Portocarrero, Peruvian sociologist (b. 1949) |
2021 | The death of Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian secularist, feminist (b. 1931) |
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