Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Jessica Watson |
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Birthdate | May 18, 1993 |
Birth Place | Australia |
Age (in 2024) | 31 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Explorer |
Jessica Watson is best known as Explorer who has born on May 18, 1993 in Australia. Currently, Jessica Watson is 31 years, 6 months and 3 days old. Jessica Watson will celebrate 32nd birthday on Sunday, 18th of May 2025. Below the countdown to Jessica Watson upcoming birthday.
Explorer who became the youngest person to sail unassisted around the world without stopping in May 2010. The journey spanned 21,600 nautical miles and lasted from October 2009 to May 2010.
She lived with her family on a cabin cruiser for five years, and she spent time living in a double-decker bus.
She has garnered some criticism due to her trip not meeting official World Sailing Speed Record Council criteria.
Her parents are New Zealanders Roger and Julie Watson.
She successfully circumnavigated the globe like Ferdinand Magellan, who was the first person to do so.
Jessica Watson is 31 years old today.
Jessica Watson was born on May 18, 1993 in Australia.
Jessica Watson zodiac sign is Taurus.
Jessica Watson was best known as Explorer.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Jessica Watson's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Jessica Watson's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1973 | Aeroflot Flight 109 is hijacked mid-flight and the aircraft is subsequently destroyed when the hijacker's bomb explodes, killing all 82 people on board. |
1974 | Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so. |
1977 | Likud party wins the 1977 Israeli legislative election, with Menachem Begin, its founder, as the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. |
1980 | Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage. |
1980 | Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms. |
1990 | In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph). |
1991 | Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland. |
1993 | Riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police open fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injure 11 demonstrators. |
1994 | Israeli troops finish withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, ceding the area to the Palestinian National Authority to govern. |
2005 | A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix and Hydra. |
2006 | The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country. |
2009 | The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides. |
2015 | At least 78 people die in a landslide caused by heavy rains in the Colombian town of Salgar. |
2018 | A school shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas kills ten people. |
2019 | United States presidential election: Joe Biden announces his presidential campaign. |
1986 | The birth of Kevin Anderson, South African tennis player |
1988 | The birth of Taeyang, South Korean singer |
1990 | The birth of Dimitri Daeseleire, Belgian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Yuya Osako, Japanese footballer |
1990 | The birth of Josh Starling, Australian rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of Adwoa Aboah, British fashion model |
1993 | The birth of Stuart Percy, Canadian ice hockey player |
1993 | The birth of Jessica Watson, Australian sailor |
1998 | The birth of Polina Edmunds, American figure skater |
1999 | The birth of Laura Omloop, Belgian singer-songwriter |
2000 | The birth of Ryan Sessegnon, English footballer |
2000 | The birth of Steven Sessegnon, English footballer |
2001 | The birth of Emma Navarro, American tennis player |
2002 | The birth of Alina Zagitova, Russian figure skater |
2009 | The birth of Hala Finley, American actress |
2014 | The death of Dobrica Ćosić, Serbian politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Hans-Peter Dürr, German physicist and academic (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Kaiketsu Masateru, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1948) |
2014 | The death of Chukwuedu Nwokolo, Nigerian physician and academic (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut (b. 1946) |
2015 | The death of Halldór Ásgrímsson, Icelandic accountant and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1947) |
2015 | The death of Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Jean-François Théodore, French businessman (b. 1946) |
2017 | The death of Roger Ailes, American businessman (b. 1940) |
2017 | The death of Jacque Fresco, American engineer and academic (b. 1916) |
2017 | The death of Chris Cornell, American singer (b. 1964) |
2019 | The death of Austin Eubanks, American addiction recovery advocate, survivor of the Columbine shooting (b. 1981) |
2020 | The death of Ken Osmond, American actor and police officer (b. 1943) |
2021 | The death of Charles Grodin, American actor and talk show host (b. 1935) |
2021 | The death of Yolanda Tortolero, Venezuelan politician |
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