From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 26/Jun/2018 - Part 1

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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. Ariana Grande

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Ariana Grande is an American singer and actress who is the first person to have her first 3 albums debut with lead singles from each of those debuted within top 10 in US.

She started her music career in 2011 and released her first studio album Yours Truly in 2013 and since then, has released a total of 4 studio albums besides acting in about 20 television/broadway series.

Her music videos have been viewed with over 9 billion views.

She is a winner of 3 American Music Awards besides being nominated for 4 Grammy Awards.

She is a supporter of charity works and has been named by Time magazine in 2016 as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World

2. Greg LeMond

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Greg LeMond is an American former professional road racing cyclist who is a winner of 3 Tour de France and 2 Road Race World Championship.

He is an anti doping advocate and along with his wife, he supports various charity works.

He became the first non European cyclist to win a Tour de France when he won it for the first time in 1986 and he still remains the only American to win the same.

He also holds the records for many first like first American to win Road Race World Championship, first professional cyclist to sign a million dollar contract, first cyclist to be on the covers of Sports Illustrated magazine.

He has been inducted into UCI Hall of Fame and United States Bicycling Hall of Fame.

3. Violette Szabo

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Violette Szabo was a French/British Special Operations Executive agent during the World War II.

She was part of Women's Land Army and worked in various positions before becoming a field agent in 1942.

So, her first mission as a field agent was in 1944 with a trip to German occupied France.

Her second mission in June 1944 was her last mission as she was captured by German troop and eventually she was executed by February 1945.

She was honoured with George Cross in 1946, the second woman to be honoured with that.

4. William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was an Scots-Irish mathematical physicist and engineer who is the formulator of first and second laws of thermodynamics.

He is also the inventor of electric telegraph and for his transatlantic telegraph project, he was Knighted by Queen Victoria.

He has been honoured with unit of temperature named after him as Kelvin.

He was a Fellow of Royal Society and was honoured with Copley Medal, Royal Medal, Commander of the Legion of Honor, Order of Merit and was the first international recipient of John Fritz Medal.

5. Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias was an American athlete who was successful in golf, basketball, baseball along with track and field.

She was a winner of 2 gold medals and a silver medal in 1932 summer Olympics in hurdles, javelin throw (gold medals) and high jump(silver medal).

She then moved onto golf to become a professional golfer to win 10 LPGA events and a total of 82 tournaments with 17 straight women's amateur victories.

She also excelled in baseball, basketball and got inducted IAAF Hall of Fame, National Women's Hall of Fame.

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