Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Jessica Savitch |
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Birthdate | February 01, 1947 |
Birth Place | Kennett Square, PA |
Age (in 2024) | 77 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Journalist |
Jessica Savitch is best known as Journalist who has born on February 01, 1947 in Kennett Square, PA. Currently, Jessica Savitch is 77 years, 9 months and 20 days old. Jessica Savitch will celebrate 78th birthday on Saturday, 1st of February 2025. Below the countdown to Jessica Savitch upcoming birthday.
Remembered for anchoring New York's weekend edition of NBC Nightly News and for hosting the PBS news program Frontline, she is particularly notable as the first female anchor of a nationally-broadcast weekend news program.
After graduating from Ithaca College in New York, she worked briefly for Houston's KHOU-TV channel and for New York's WCBS-AM radio station.
Tragically, she died in her mid-thirties as the result of a single-vehicle car accident that also killed New York Post executive Martin Fischbein.
The child of Florence Goldberger and David Savitch, she spent her childhood in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In the early 1980s, she was briefly married to Mel Korn, followed by Donald Payne.
She was portrayed by Sela Ward in the Lifetime movie Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story.
Jessica Savitch is 77 years old today.
Jessica Savitch was born on February 01, 1947 in Kennett Square, PA.
Jessica Savitch zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Jessica Savitch was best known as Journalist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Jessica Savitch's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1979 | Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile. |
1991 | A runway collision between USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport results in the deaths of 34 people, and injuries to 30 others. |
1992 | The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal disaster case. |
1996 | The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress. |
1998 | Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral. |
2002 | Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, kidnapped on January 23, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors. |
2003 | Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during the reentry of mission STS-107 into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard. |
2004 | Hajj pilgrimage stampede: In a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured. |
2004 | Double suicide attack in Erbil on the offices of Iraqi Kurdish political parties by members of Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad |
2005 | King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'état to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers. |
2009 | The first cabinet of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was formed in Iceland, making her the country's first female prime minister and the world's first openly gay head of government. |
2012 | Seventy-four people are killed and over 500 injured as a result of clashes between fans of Egyptian football teams Al Masry and Al Ahly in the city of Port Said. |
2013 | The Shard, the sixth-tallest building in Europe, opens its viewing gallery to the public. |
2021 | A coup d'état in Myanmar removes Aung San Suu Kyi from power and restores military rule. |
2022 | Five-year-old Moroccan boy Rayan Aourram falls into a 32-meter (105 feet) deep well in Ighran village in Tamorot commune, Chefchaouen Province, Morocco, but dies four days later, before rescue workers reached him. |
1987 | The birth of Sebastian Boenisch, Polish footballer |
1987 | The birth of Moises Henriques, Portuguese-Australian cricketer |
1987 | The birth of Austin Jackson, American baseball player |
1987 | The birth of Ronda Rousey, American mixed martial artist, wrestler and actress |
1987 | The birth of Giuseppe Rossi, Italian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Brett Anderson, American baseball player |
1989 | The birth of Ricky Pinheiro, Portuguese footballer |
1991 | The birth of Blake Austin, Australian rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Kyle Palmieri, American hockey player |
1993 | The birth of Diego Mella, Italian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Joe Boyce, Australian rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Anna-Lena Friedsam, German tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Julia Garner, American actress |
1994 | The birth of Harry Styles, English singer-songwriter and actor |
1997 | The birth of Park Jihyo, South Korean singer |
2014 | The death of Rene Ricard, American poet, painter, and critic (b. 1946) |
2014 | The death of Maximilian Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-French pianist (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Udo Lattek, German footballer, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1935) |
2015 | The death of Monty Oum, American animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1981) |
2016 | The death of Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores, Guatemalan general and politician, 27th President of Guatemala (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Desmond Carrington, British actor and broadcaster (b. 1926) |
2018 | The death of Barys Kit, Belarusian rocket scientist (b. 1910) |
2018 | The death of Mowzey Radio, Ugandan singer and songwriter (b. 1985) |
2019 | The death of Jeremy Hardy, English comedian, radio host and panelist (b. 1961) |
2019 | The death of Clive Swift, English actor (b. 1936) |
2019 | The death of Wade Wilson, American football player and coach (b. 1959) |
2021 | The death of Dustin Diamond, American actor, director, stand-up comedian, and musician (b. 1977) |
2021 | The death of Temur Tsiklauri, Georgian pop singer and actor |
2022 | The death of Remi De Roo, Canadian bishop of the Catholic Church (b. 1924) |
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