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Full Name | Leo Ryan |
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Birthdate | May 05, 1925 |
Birth Place | Nebraska |
Age (in 2024) | 99 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Politician |
Leo Ryan is best known as Politician who has born on May 05, 1925 in Nebraska. Currently, Leo Ryan is 99 years, 6 months and 19 days old. Leo Ryan will celebrate 100th birthday on Monday, 5th of May 2025. Below the countdown to Leo Ryan upcoming birthday.
Former California representative who is the first U.S. Member of Congress to be killed in the line of duty.
In 1970,while presiding as chairman of the Assembly committee that oversaw prison reform, he investigated the conditions of California prisons by being held as an inmate in Folsom Prison.
He was assassinated in Guyana by members of the Peoples Temple shortly before the Jonestown Massacre, in which over 900 Temple members killed themselves, in 1978.
He has five children. He was sent to investigate the People's Temple, led by cult leader Jim Jones, in Guyana. He was assassinated by cult members in 1978.
He was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal by the United States Congress and signed by President Ronald Reagan.
Leo Ryan is 99 years old today.
Leo Ryan was born on May 05, 1925 in Nebraska.
Leo Ryan zodiac sign is Taurus.
Leo Ryan was best known as Politician.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Leo Ryan's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Leo Ryan's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1955 | The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect. |
1961 | Project Mercury: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight. |
1964 | The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day. |
1972 | Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy. |
1973 | Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}2⁄5, an as-yet unbeaten record. |
1980 | Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege. |
1981 | Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27. |
1985 | Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech. |
1987 | Iran-Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America |
1991 | A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man. |
1994 | The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. |
1994 | American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism. |
2006 | The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army. |
2007 | Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 aboard, making it the deadliest aircraft disaster in Cameroon. |
2010 | Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis. |
1985 | The birth of Tsepo Masilela, South African footballer |
1985 | The birth of P. J. Tucker, American basketball player |
1985 | The birth of Terrence Wheatley, American football player |
1987 | The birth of Graham Dorrans, Scottish footballer |
1988 | The birth of Adele, English singer-songwriter |
1988 | The birth of Mervyn Westfield, English cricketer |
1989 | The birth of Chris Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor |
1991 | The birth of Xenofon Fetsis, Greek footballer |
1991 | The birth of Raúl Jiménez, Mexican footballer |
1992 | The birth of Loïck Landre, French footballer |
1996 | The birth of Mayar Sherif, Egyptian tennis player |
1998 | The birth of Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player |
1999 | The birth of Nathan Chen, American figure skater |
1999 | The birth of Justin Kluivert, Dutch footballer |
2003 | The birth of Carlos Alcaraz, Spanish tennis player |
2011 | The death of Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier (b. 1901) |
2011 | The death of Yosef Merimovich, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1924) |
2011 | The death of Dana Wynter, British actress (b. 1931) |
2012 | The death of Surendranath, Indian cricketer (b. 1937) |
2012 | The death of Carl Johan Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (b. 1916) |
2012 | The death of Aatos Erkko, Finnish journalist and publisher (b. 1932) |
2012 | The death of George Knobel, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1922) |
2012 | The death of Roy Padayachie, South African lawyer and politician, South African Minister of Communications (b. 1950) |
2013 | The death of Sarah Kirsch, German poet and author (b. 1935) |
2013 | The death of Robert Ressler, American FBI agent and author (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Michael Otedola, Nigerian journalist and politician, 9th Governor of Lagos State (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Jobst Brandt, American cyclist, engineer, and author (b. 1935) |
2015 | The death of Hans Jansen, Dutch linguist, academic, and politician (b. 1942) |
2017 | The death of Binyamin Elon, Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician (b. 1954) |
2017 | The death of Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, Mauritanian politician (b. 1953) |
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