Dwight Powell
Dwight Powell, Canadian basketball player
In context
- When
- Saturday, July 20 199135 years ago
- Category
- BirthA notable person born on this day. Each links to a person page with their dates and story.
- Era
- 20th century · 1990s
- Recorded from
- Wikipedia “On this day” feed
- Person
- Dwight Powell
Who they were
Dwight Powell, Canadian basketball player
Why this date
Dwight Powell appears on our July 20 calendar for 1991 as a birth entry.
July 20 through the years
Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.
- 1991Dwight Powell
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- 2012Syrian civil war
- 2012James Holmes (mass murderer)
- 20132013 Colombian clashes
- 2013Syrian civil war
- 2015United States
- 2015Suruç bombing
- 2017O. J. Simpson
- 2019Soyuz MS-13
- 2021Jeff Bezos
Also in 1991
- September 9TajikistanTajikistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
- September 11Continental Express Flight 2574Continental Express Flight 2574 crashes in Colorado County, Texas, near Eagle Lake, killing 11 passengers and three crew.
- March 14EscondidaEscondida, one of the most productive copper mines in the world, was officially inaugurated.
- September 12Space Shuttle DiscoveryNASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-48 to deploy the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite.
- September 17EstoniaEstonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
- September 17LinuxThe first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
- September 5Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.
- October 201991 Uttarkashi earthquakeAn earthquake struck the Indian state of Uttarakhand, killing at least 768 people and destroying thousands of homes.
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Questions about this entry
When did Dwight Powell happen?
July 20 1991 — 35 years ago, on a Saturday.
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