From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 17/Sep/2018
Hi Steemians,
This is an effort to provide some information on Five selected famous personalities born on this day.
Courtesy of this information goes to onthisday.com, famousbirthdays.com and wikipedia.org and image source is mentioned under "Source" just below each image.
1. Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi is an Indian politician and current Prime Minister of India.
He is the 14th Prime Minister of India and worked as Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat for 2001 to 2014 prior to becoming Prime Minister.
As a boy, he use to sell tea with his father and he rose to fame from being a normal BJP worker to Chief Minister of a state and then as Prime Minister of India.
He is known for his speeches and his policies as Chief Minister of Gujarat with economic reforms have been well received and he was the from runner for 2014 Prime Minister candidate and Bharatiya Janata Party swept over to majority and thus Narendra Modi became Prime Minister of India.
He is also know for the Swatch Bharat Mission, a sanitation program started nationwide.
He has been a recipient of highest civilian honours from Afghanistan, Palestine and Saudi Arabia.
2. Ronaldo
Ronaldo is a retired Brazilian footballer who is regarded as one of the greatest of the game.
He was so prolific during his prime days that he had scored 200+ goals by the age of 23.
besides the Brazilian national team, he played for clubs like Barcelona, Inter Milan, PSV and Cruzeiro.
He was winner of Ballon d'Or twice, FIFA World Player of the Year thrice, European Golden Boot winner for 1996-97 season, FIFA World Cup Golden Shoe once.
He has been inducted into Brazilian Football Museum Hall of Fame and the Italian Football Hall of Fame.
3. John McAfee
John McAfee is a British-American computer programmer and businessman who is the founder of McCafe Associates, a software company.
He worked previously with NASA's Institute for Space Studies as a programmer and later with companies like Computer Sciences Corporation, Xerox and Lockheed before founding McCafe Associates.
He has expressed his intention to run for 2020 Presidential candidate.
He has taught Yoga and has been author of many Yoga books.
4. Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong is a American former road racing cyclist who was 2 time winner of Tour de France along with 3 stage race wins.
Besides Tour de France wins, he also won a bronze medal in 2000 Sydney Olympics, but his Tour de France wins and Olympic medal were taken back from wins from August 1998 onwards, sighting that he took some performance enhancing drugs.
He also won a gold medal in World Championships in 1993 in Elite Men's Road Race Category.
He won World's Most Outstanding Athlete Award, Jesse Owen's International Trophy in 2000.
5. Ben Carson
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Ben Carson is an American politician, neuro surgeon and author who is serving as the United States Secretory of Housing and Urban Development since 2017.
He was a candidate for President of United States election in Republican primaries in 2016, which he eventually lost.
He previously worked as Director of pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland from 1984 till 2013.
He has been honoured with Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008.
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Wow! It's a celebration time for me,
First of all I wish Happy Birthday to all the B'day boy and gals.
My some favourite personalities celebrating the day and why so I am as the fan.
Thank you dear sir for bringing this awesome information. Maybe I missed it if you didn't covered them.
God bless you dear Sir.
Actually, this post was for yesterday and I wanted to post that yesterday itself as it was Birthday of our beloved Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
But due to issues with Steem blockchain, I couldn't publish that yesterday :)
Yes sir it's the issue due to Steemit down, Sir I am aware of it, but don't want to mention in comment, as Our Loving Prime Minister Sir celebrated his birthday in Varanasi and worshipped Baba Vishwanath and received His blessings one of the Jyotirlingam among 12.
Sir Kashi is the among the oldest city of the world at least couple of thousands year old.
Thank you again for your updates and efforts dear sir.
God bless you dear sir.