Astronaut Dirk Frimout

Dirk Frimout

Living place: Belgium

Birthday: 21-3-1941 (83 years old)

Global rank: #77364

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Who is Astronaut Dirk Frimout?
European Space Agency astrophysicist and first Belgian citizen to fly into space. He flew on NASA's 1992 STS-45 mission aboard the space shuttle Atlantis.
He was a weapons specialist on a space shuttle mission in 1992. His single space flight made him an instant celebrity in Belgium.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He studied engineering and physics at Ghent University. He then carried out experiments of the Belgian Institute of Space Aeronomy.

Family life info

He married and had two children.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Astronaut Dirk Frimout?
Like US citizen Alan Shepard, Frimout was the first person from his country to go into space.

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When was Astronaut Dirk Frimout born?
Dirk Frimout birthday 21-3-1941 (at the age of 83).
Where is Astronaut Dirk Frimout's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Dirk Frimout was born in Belgium. is a Astronaut, whose Zodiac is Aries, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Snake. Dirk Frimout's global rank is 77364 and whose rank is 252 in list of famous Astronaut.
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Events in 1941 and 21-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Dirk Frimout

  • Germany attacks the Balkans and Russia.
  • Japanese surprise attack on U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor brings U.S. into World War II; U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan.
  • The first U.S. Lend-Lease shipment of food sent to Britain.

Birthday Dirk Frimout (21-3) in history

  • Day 21-3 year 1556: Archbishop Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury was imprisoned in Oxford, UK, accused of heresy.
  • Day 21-3 year 1804: The French civil code, the Code Napoleon, was officially put forth.
  • Day 21-3 year 1871: Journalist Henry M. Stanley began his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
  • Day 21-3 year 1960: Police fired on demonstrators in Sharpeville, South Africa, after which the African National Congress was banned. 25 years later, a march marking the anniversary was also disrupted by police fire.
  • Day 21-3 year 1963: Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay, a harsh maximum security jail which once housed gangster Al Capone, closed.
  • Day 21-3 year 1965: Martin Luther King, Jr., led the start of a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
  • Day 21-3 year 2010: The House of Representatives passes a bill that will overhaul the American health-care system. The bill, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, will be sent to President Obama to sign into law.
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