Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Lester Holt |
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Birthdate | March 08, 1959 |
Birth Place | California |
Age (in 2024) | 65 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Journalist |
Lester Holt is best known as Journalist who has born on March 08, 1959 in California. Currently, Lester Holt is 65 years, 7 months and 25 days old. Lester Holt will celebrate 66th birthday on Saturday, 8th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Lester Holt upcoming birthday.
News anchor and journalist who is noted for his work on NBC, serving as co-anchor on Weekend Today from 2003 to 2015. He became a Dateline NBC anchor in 2011 and in 2015, he became the first African-American host of NBC Nightly News.
He started his career on air as a disc jockey for a radio station.
He served as an NBC News and MSNBC correspondent from 2000 to 2003. He moderated the first debate of the 2016 presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
He has two children with his wife, Carol, one of whom became a morning news anchor in Chicago.
He co-anchored with David Bloom on the news show Weekend Today.
Lester Holt is 65 years old today.
Lester Holt was born on March 08, 1959 in California.
Lester Holt zodiac sign is Pisces.
Lester Holt was best known as Journalist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Lester Holt's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1942 | World War II: The Dutch East Indies surrender Java to the Imperial Japanese Army |
1942 | World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured Rangoon, Burma from British. |
1950 | The iconic Volkswagen Type 2 "Bus" begins production. |
1963 | The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état |
1965 | Vietnam War: US Marines arrive at Da Nang. |
1966 | Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland, destroyed by a bomb. |
1979 | Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time. |
1979 | Images taken by Voyager I proved the existence of volcanoes on Io, a moon of Jupiter. |
1983 | Cold War: While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire". |
1985 | A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon kills at least 56 and injures 180 others. |
2004 | A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council. |
2014 | In one of aviation's greatest mysteries, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The fate of the flight remains unknown. |
2017 | The Azure Window, a natural arch on the Maltese island of Gozo, collapses in stormy weather. |
2018 | The first Aurat March (social/political demonstration) was held being International Women's Day in Karachi, Pakistan, since then annually held across Pakistan and feminist slogan Mera Jism Meri Marzi (My body, my choice), in demand for women's right to bodily autonomy and against gender-based violence came into vogue in Pakistan. |
2021 | International Women's Day marches in Mexico become violent with 62 police officers and 19 civilians injured in Mexico City alone. |
1977 | The birth of James Van Der Beek, American actor |
1977 | The birth of Johann Vogel, Swiss footballer |
1982 | The birth of Leonidas Kampantais, Greek footballer |
1982 | The birth of Keemstar, American YouTuber |
1983 | The birth of André Santos, Brazilian footballer |
1983 | The birth of Mark Worrell, American baseball player |
1984 | The birth of Ross Taylor, New Zealand cricketer |
1985 | The birth of Maria Ohisalo, Finnish politician and researcher |
1990 | The birth of Asier Illarramendi, Spanish footballer |
1990 | The birth of Petra Kvitová, Czech tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Tom English, Australian rugby player |
1994 | The birth of Claire Emslie, Scottish footballer |
1996 | The birth of Matthew Hammelmann, Australian rules footballer |
1997 | The birth of Tijana Bošković, Serbian volleyball player |
1998 | The birth of Tali Darsigny, Canadian weightlifter |
2005 | The death of Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen commander and politician, President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (b. 1951) |
2007 | The death of John Inman, English actor (b. 1935) |
2007 | The death of John Vukovich, American baseball player and coach (b. 1947) |
2009 | The death of Hank Locklin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918) |
2012 | The death of Simin Daneshvar, Iranian author and academic (b. 1921) |
2013 | The death of John O'Connell, Irish politician, Irish Minister of Health (b. 1927) |
2013 | The death of Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, German soldier and publisher (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American Holocaust survivor and author (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of William Guarnere, American sergeant (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Sam Simon, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1955) |
2016 | The death of George Martin, English composer, conductor, and producer (b. 1926) |
2018 | The death of Kate Wilhelm, American author (b. 1928) |
2019 | The death of Marshall Brodien, American actor (b. 1934) |
2019 | The death of Cedrick Hardman, American football player and actor (b. 1948) |
2020 | The death of Max von Sydow, Swedish actor (b. 1929) |
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