BirthOctober 311988

Sébastien Buemi

Sébastien Buemi, Swiss race car driver

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When
Monday, October 31 198838 years ago
Category
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Era
20th century · 1980s
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Person
Sébastien Buemi

Who they were

Sébastien Olivier Humbert Buemi is a Swiss racing driver, who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Toyota and in Formula E for Envision. In formula racing, Buemi competed in Formula One for Toro Rosso from 2009 to 2011, and won the 2015–16 Formula E Championship with Renault. In endurance racing, Buemi has won a joint-record four FIA World Endurance Championship titles—tied with Brendon Hartley—and is a four-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, all with Toyota.

Why this date

Sébastien Buemi appears on our October 31 calendar for 1988 as a birth entry.

October 31 through the years

Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.

  1. 1988Sébastien Buemi
  2. 2000Soyuz TM-31
  3. 2000Singapore Airlines Flight 006
  4. 2002Houston
  5. 2003Mahathir Mohamad
  6. 2005Moons of Pluto
  7. 2011World population
  8. 2014VSS Enterprise
  9. 2015Metrojet Flight 9268
  10. 20172017 New York City truck attack
  11. 2020Berlin Brandenburg Airport

Also in 1988

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  • September 12Hurricane GilbertHurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
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  • September 188888 UprisingThe 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.
  • September 18Henri NamphyGeneral Henri Namphy, president of Haiti, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Prosper Avril.
  • September 18Magna Charta UniversitatumThe Magna Charta Universitatum, asserting key principles essential to the free operation of universities, is signed in Bologna by the rec…
  • August 10Civil Liberties Act of 1988The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 became law, authorizing reparations to surviving Japanese Americans interned during World War II.

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October 31 1988 — 38 years ago, on a Monday.

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