Updated at December 15, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Travis Roy |
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Birthdate | April 17, 1975 |
Birth Place | Maine |
Age (in 2024) | 49 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Memoirist |
Travis Roy is best known as Memoirist who has born on April 17, 1975 in Maine. Currently, Travis Roy is 49 years, 7 months and 28 days old. Travis Roy will celebrate 50th birthday on Thursday, 17th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Travis Roy upcoming birthday.
After his collegiate ice hockey career ended with an accident that left him quadriplegic, he co-wrote an autobiography titled Eleven Seconds and launched The Travis Roy Foundation to fund medical research and to assist fellow survivors of spinal cord injuries.
After playing on the ice hockey teams at North Yarmouth Academy and Tabor Academy, he matriculated at Boston University on an ice hockey scholarship. Tragically, he was injured during his very first game with the university's men's team.
In the late 1990s, North Yarmouth Academy named its ice hockey arena in Roy's honor.
Born to Lee and Brenda Roy, he spent his early years in Augusta and Yarmouth, Maine.
Roy and Brooke Ellison -- a graduate of Harvard University and the subject of the TV movie The Brooke Ellison Story -- both achieved great things despite being quadriplegic as the result of early accidents.
Travis Roy is 49 years old today.
Travis Roy was born on April 17, 1975 in Maine.
Travis Roy zodiac sign is Aries.
Travis Roy was best known as Memoirist.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Travis Roy's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Travis Roy's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1951 | The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park. |
1961 | Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro. |
1969 | Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy. |
1969 | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed. |
1970 | Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely. |
1971 | The Provisional Government of Bangladesh is formed. |
1975 | The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender. |
1978 | Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan. |
1982 | Constitution Act, 1982 Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada. |
1986 | An alleged state of war lasting 335 years between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace bringing an end to any hypothetical war that may have been legally considered to exist. |
1992 | The Katina P is deliberately run aground off Maputo, Mozambique, and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean. |
2006 | A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates an explosive device in a Tel Aviv restaurant, killing 11 people and injuring 70. |
2013 | An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others. |
2014 | NASA's Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star. |
2021 | The funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, takes place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. |
1984 | The birth of Jed Lowrie, American baseball player |
1984 | The birth of Raffaele Palladino, Italian footballer |
1985 | The birth of Rooney Mara, American actress |
1985 | The birth of Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model |
1985 | The birth of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player |
1986 | The birth of Romain Grosjean, French race car driver |
1988 | The birth of Takahiro Moriuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter |
1989 | The birth of Paraskevi Papachristou, Greek triple jumper |
1989 | The birth of Avi Kaplan, singer and songwriter |
1990 | The birth of Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer |
1992 | The birth of Lachlan Maranta, Australian rugby league footballer |
1994 | The birth of Alanna Goldie, Canadian fencer |
1996 | The birth of Lorna Fitzgerald, British actress |
1996 | The birth of Caitlin Parker, Australian boxer |
1998 | The birth of Suppapong Udomkaewkanjana, Thai actor and singer |
2013 | The death of V. S. Ramadevi, Indian politician, 13th Governor of Karnataka (b. 1934) |
2014 | The death of Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Bernat Klein, Serbian-Scottish fashion designer and painter (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Wojciech Leśnikowski, Polish-American architect and academic (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Karpal Singh, Malaysian lawyer and politician (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of Robert P. Griffin, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Scotty Probasco, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Jeremiah J. Rodell, American general (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of A. Alfred Taubman, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Chyna, American wrestler (b. 1969) |
2016 | The death of Doris Roberts, American actress (b. 1925) |
2018 | The death of Barbara Bush, former First Lady of the United States (b. 1925) |
2018 | The death of Carl Kasell, American radio personality (b. 1934) |
2019 | The death of Alan García, Peruvian lawyer and politician, 61st and 64th President of Peru (b. 1949) |
2022 | The death of Radu Lupu, Romanian pianist (b. 1945) |
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