Updated at December 13, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Guenter Wendt |
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Birthdate | August 28, 1923 |
Birth Place | Germany |
Age (in 2024) | 101 Years Old |
Zodiac | Virgo |
Occupation | Engineer |
Guenter Wendt is best known as Engineer who has born on August 28, 1923 in Germany. Currently, Guenter Wendt is 101 years, 3 months and 16 days old. Guenter Wendt will celebrate 102nd birthday on Thursday, 28th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Guenter Wendt upcoming birthday.
Engineer who worked for the US manned spaceflight program and was in charge of the launch pads. He supervised spacecraft launch pad preparations at Cape Canaveral during the Mercury and Gemini manned space programs, which began with the flight of Ham the chimpanzee in 1961.
He studied mechanical engineering in Germany before fighting for Nazi Germany during World War II, serving as a flight engineer aboard Luftwaffe night fighters.
He received a NASA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 and he was played by Endre Hules in the 1995 film Apollo 13.
He married Herma Riggert who died in 1993 after more than 40 years of marriage.
He was given the nickname "Der Führer of Der Launch Pad" by John Glenn.
Guenter Wendt is 101 years old today.
Guenter Wendt was born on August 28, 1923 in Germany.
Guenter Wendt zodiac sign is Virgo.
Guenter Wendt was best known as Engineer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Guenter Wendt's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1968 | Police and protesters clash during 1968 Democratic National Convention protests as protesters chant "The whole world is watching". |
1973 | Norrmalmstorg robbery: Stockholm police secure the surrenders of hostage-takers Jan-Erik Olsson and Clark Olofsson, defusing the Norrmalmstorg hostage crisis. The behaviours of the hostages later give rise to the term Stockholm syndrome. |
1988 | Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured. |
1990 | Gulf War: Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province. |
1990 | An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people. |
1993 | NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl. |
1993 | Singaporean presidential election: Former Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong is elected President of Singapore. Although it is the first presidential election to be determined by popular vote, the allowed candidates consist only of Ong and a reluctant whom the government had asked to run to confer upon the election the semblance of an opposition. |
1993 | The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia in Bosnia and Herzegovina was transformed into the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia. |
1996 | Chicago Seven defendant David Dellinger, antiwar activist Bradford Lyttle, Civil Rights Movement historian Randy Kryn, and eight others are arrested by the Federal Protective Service while protesting in a demonstration at the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago during that year's Democratic National Convention. |
1998 | Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate. |
1998 | Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa. |
1999 | The Russian space mission Soyuz TM-29 reaches completion, ending nearly 10 years of continuous occupation on the space station Mir as it approaches the end of its life. |
2003 | In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI", Brian Wells dies after becoming involved in a complex plot involving a bank robbery, a scavenger hunt, and a homemade explosive device. |
2016 | The first experimental mission of ISRO's Scramjet Engine towards the realisation of an Air Breathing Propulsion System was successfully conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. |
2017 | China-India border standoff: China and India both pull their troops out of Doklam, putting an end to a two month-long stalemate over China’s construction of a road in disputed territory. |
1989 | The birth of César Azpilicueta, Spanish footballer |
1989 | The birth of Valtteri Bottas, Finnish race car driver |
1989 | The birth of Jo Kwon, South Korean singer and dancer |
1990 | The birth of Bojan Krkić, Spanish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Felicio Brown Forbes, German footballer |
1991 | The birth of Andreja Pejić, Bosnian model |
1992 | The birth of Gabriela Drăgoi, Romanian gymnast |
1992 | The birth of Bismack Biyombo, Congolese basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Max Collins, American-Filipino actress and model |
1993 | The birth of Jakub SokolÃk, Czech footballer |
1994 | The birth of Manon Arcangioli, French tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Ons Jabeur, Tunisian tennis player |
1998 | The birth of Weston McKennie, American soccer player |
2001 | The birth of Kamilla Rakhimova, Russian tennis player |
2003 | The birth of Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress |
2013 | The death of Lorella Cedroni, Italian political scientist and philosopher (b. 1961) |
2013 | The death of Edmund B. Fitzgerald, American businessman (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Frank Pulli, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1935) |
2013 | The death of Barry Stobart, English footballer (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of Rafael DÃaz Ycaza, Ecuadorian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Glenn Cornick, English bass guitarist (b. 1947) |
2014 | The death of Hal Finney, American cryptographer and programmer (b. 1956) |
2014 | The death of John Anthony Walker, American soldier and spy (b. 1937) |
2015 | The death of Al Arbour, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1932) |
2015 | The death of Mark Krasniqi, Kosovan ethnographer, poet, and translator (b. 1920) |
2015 | The death of Nelson Shanks, American painter and educator (b. 1937) |
2016 | The death of Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer and songwriter (b. 1950) |
2016 | The death of Mr. Fuji, American professional wrestler and manager (b. 1934) |
2017 | The death of Mireille Darc, French actress and model (b. 1938) |
2020 | The death of Chadwick Boseman, American actor and playwright (b. 1976) |
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