Updated at December 15, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Shirley Muldowney |
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Birthdate | June 19, 1940 |
Birth Place | Burlington, VT |
Age (in 2024) | 84 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Race Car Driver |
Shirley Muldowney is best known as Race Car Driver who has born on June 19, 1940 in Burlington, VT. Currently, Shirley Muldowney is 84 years, 5 months and 26 days old. Shirley Muldowney will celebrate 85th birthday on Thursday, 19th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Shirley Muldowney upcoming birthday.
Female racing pioneer who was dubbed the "First Lady of Drag Racing" and nicknamed "Cha Cha"; the first woman given a license by the NHRA.
She skipped school to race up and down the streets of Schenectady, New York, saying that's all she wanted to do growing up.
Her racing career was sidelined in 1984 after a crash left her with injuries to her hands, pelvis, and legs; she eventually returned to the tracks later in the decade and continued racing until 2003.
She married her first husband, 19-year-old Jack Muldowney, when she was 16; he built her first dragster.
She was played by Bonnie Bedelia in the 1983 movie about her life, "Heart Like a Wheel."
Shirley Muldowney is 84 years old today.
Shirley Muldowney was born on June 19, 1940 in Burlington, VT.
Shirley Muldowney zodiac sign is Gemini.
Shirley Muldowney was best known as Race Car Driver.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Shirley Muldowney's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Shirley Muldowney's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1965 | Nguyá» n Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyá» n VÄn Thiá»u becomes the figurehead chief of state. |
1978 | Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication. |
1985 | Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador. |
1987 | Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45. |
1988 | Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs. |
1990 | The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway. |
1990 | The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow. |
1991 | The last Soviet army units in Hungary are withdrawn. |
2005 | Following a series of Michelin tire failures during the United States Grand Prix weekend at Indianapolis, and without an agreement being reached, 14 cars from seven teams in Michelin tires withdrew after completing the formation lap, leaving only six cars from three teams on Bridgestone tires to race. |
2007 | The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured. |
2009 | Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef. |
2009 | War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. |
2012 | WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army. |
2018 | The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued. |
2018 | Antwon Rose II was fatally shot in East Pittsburgh by East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld after being involved in a near-fatal drive-by shooting. |
1984 | The birth of Andri Eleftheriou, Cypriot sport shooter |
1985 | The birth of Ai Miyazato, Japanese golfer |
1985 | The birth of José Ernesto Sosa, Argentinian footballer |
1985 | The birth of Dire Tune, Ethiopian runner |
1986 | The birth of Aoiyama KĆsuke, Bulgarian sumo wrestler |
1986 | The birth of LĂĄzaro Borges, Cuban pole vaulter |
1986 | The birth of Marvin Williams, American basketball player |
1987 | The birth of Rashard Mendenhall, American football player |
1988 | The birth of Jacob deGrom, American baseball player |
1990 | The birth of Moa Hjelmer, Swedish sprinter |
1990 | The birth of Xavier Rhodes, American football player |
1992 | The birth of Keaton Jennings, South African-English cricketer |
1992 | The birth of C. J. Mosley, American football player |
1993 | The birth of Olajide Olatunji, English YouTuber |
2004 | The birth of Millie Gibson, English actress |
2012 | The death of Norbert Tiemann, American soldier and politician, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Vince Flynn, American author (b. 1966) |
2013 | The death of James Gandolfini, American actor and producer (b. 1961) |
2013 | The death of Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician, 37th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932) |
2013 | The death of Dave Jennings, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1952) |
2013 | The death of Filip Topol, Czech singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1965) |
2013 | The death of Slim Whitman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Oskar-Hubert Dennhardt, German general (b. 1915) |
2014 | The death of Gerry Goffin, American songwriter (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (b. 1985) |
2015 | The death of James Salter, American novelist and short-story writer (b. 1925) |
2016 | The death of Anton Yelchin, American actor (b. 1989) |
2017 | The death of Otto Warmbier, American college student detained in North Korea (b. 1994) |
2018 | The death of Koko, western lowland gorilla and user of American Sign Language (b. 1971) |
2019 | The death of Etika, American YouTuber and streamer (b. 1990) |
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