Sports · July 25, 1992

1992 Summer Olympics

Name: 1992 Summer Olympics
Start: 1992-07-25
Location: Barcelona, Spain

34 years ago · Barcelona, Spain

34th anniversary

The 1992 Summer Olympics (Spanish: Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, Catalan: Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad (Spanish: Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, Catalan: Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and officially branded as Barcelona '92, were an international multi-sport event held from 25…

Text from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

The 35th anniversary falls on July 25, 2027.

Explore

People involved8

b. 1956

Larry Bird

Larry Joe Bird (born December 7, 1956) is an American former professional basketball player, coach, and executive in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "the Hick from French Lick" and "Larry Legend", Bird is widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

SportsAge 69

View profile

Photo: Kurt Shimala · CC BY-SA 2.0

b. 1959

Magic Johnson

Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. (born August 14, 1959) is an American businessman and former professional basketball player.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

SportsAge 67

View profile

Photo: Daniel Benavides from Austin, TX · CC BY 2.0

b. 1961

Carl Lewis

Frederick Carlton Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

SportsAge 65

View profile

Photo: Manfred Werner - Tsui · CC BY-SA 3.0

b. 1963

Michael Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials MJ, is an American businessman, former professional basketball player, and former baseball player. He played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) between 1984 and 2003, winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

SportsAge 63

View profile

Photo: DOD photo by D. Myles Cullen · Public domain

b. 1968

Felipe VI of Spain

Felipe VI (Spanish pronunciation:; Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Grecia; born 30 January 1968) is King of Spain, reigning since 2014.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

RoyaltyAge 58

View profile

Photo: Bryan Berlin · CC BY-SA 4.0

b. 1971

Pep Guardiola

Josep "Pep" Guardiola Sala (Catalan:; born 18 January 1971) is a Catalan football manager and former player from Spain. He is the global ambassador of the City Football Group and was most recently manager of Premier League club Manchester City.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

SportsAge 55

View profile

Photo: Steffen Prößdorf · CC BY-SA 4.0

b. 1971

Pete Sampras

Pete Sampras (born August 12, 1971) is an American former professional tennis player. One of the most successful tennis players of all time, he was ranked as the world No.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

SportsAge 55

View profile

Photo: Craig ONeal · CC BY-SA 2.0

b. 1971

Lance Armstrong

Lance Edward Armstrong (né Gunderson; born September 18, 1971) is an American former professional road racing cyclist.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

SportsAge 55

View profile

Photo: Paul Coster · CC BY 2.0

Born on July 254

July 25 →

1920–1958

Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ScienceWould be 106

View profile

Photo: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology · CC BY-SA 4.0

1905–1994

Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti (25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994;; German:) was a German-language writer, known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer. Born in Ruse, Bulgaria, to a Sephardic Jewish family, he later lived in England, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

LiteratureWould be 121

View profile

Photo: Unknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0 nl

1894–1918

Gavrilo Princip

Gavrilo Princip (Serbian Cyrillic: Гаврило Принцип, pronounced; 25 July 1894 – 28 April 1918) was a Bosnian Serb student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ActivismWould be 132

View profile

Photo: Unknown author · Public domain

1848–1930

Arthur Balfour

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930), was a British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. He also later served as foreign secretary in the Lloyd George ministry, from 1916 to 1919.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

PoliticsDied aged 81

View profile

Photo: Bain News Service, publisher · Public domain

Also on this day4

1799

First Battle of Abukir

The Battle of Abukir (also known as the Battle of Aboukir or Battle of Abu Qir) was fought on 25 July 1799 between the French Army of the Orient under Napoleon Bonaparte and an Ottoman army under Mustafa Pasha during the French invasion of Egypt and Syria.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

War

1944

Operation Cobra

Operation Cobra was an offensive launched by the First United States Army under Lieutenant General Omar Bradley seven weeks after the D-Day landings, during the Normandy campaign of World War II.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

War

2000

Air France Flight 4590

Air France Flight 4590 was an international charter flight from Paris to New York. On 25 July 2000, a Concorde passenger jet operating the flight crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and 4 on the ground.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Disaster

2010

2010 German Grand Prix

The 2010 German Grand Prix (formally the Formula 1 Grosser Preis Santander von Deutschland 2010) was a Formula One motor race held on 25 July at the Hockenheimring in Hockenheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was the 11th round of the 2010 Formula One World Championship and the 71st German Grand Prix.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Sports