American soldier and intelligence analyst

Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Elizabeth Manning is an American activist and whistleblower. She is a former United States Army soldier who was convicted by court-martial in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly 750,000 classified, or unclassified but sensitive, military and diplomatic documents. She was imprisoned from 2010 until 2017, when President Barack Obama commuted her sentence. A trans woman, Manning said in 2013 that she had had a female gender identity since childhood and wanted to be known as Chelsea Manning.

Born

1987

December 17

Died

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1980s

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Chelsea, in brief

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Key dates

1987 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

-497 The first Saturnalia festival is celebrated in ancient Rome.
546 Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Eastern Roman garrison.
920 Romanos I Lekapenos is crowned co-emperor of the underage Constantine VII.
942 Assassination of William I of Normandy.

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The world in 1987

When Chelsea arrived

april 11 The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
april 21 The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
april 27 The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
april 4 Garuda Indonesia Flight 032 crashes at Medan Airport, killing 23.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on December 17

Arthur Fiedler 1894–1979 American conductor (died 1979) Chuck Liddell 1969– American mixed martial artist and kick-boxer Humphry Davy 1778–1829 English chemist and physicist (died 1829) John Kennedy Toole 1937–1969 American novelist (died 1969) Kerry Packer 1937–2005 Australian businessman, founded World Series Cricket (died 2005) Paul Tracy 1968– Canadian race car driver and sportscaster Roger L'Estrange 1616– English pamphleteer and author (died 1704) Ryan Hunter-Reay 1980– American race car driver Susanthika Jayasinghe 1975– Sri Lankan sprinter

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1987

Andre Russell 1987– Jamaican cricketer Andrew Cogliano 1987– Canadian ice hockey player Brooklyn Decker 1987– American model and actress Carlos Quintero 1987– Colombian footballer Carolina Kostner 1987– Italian figure skater Charlotte Henshaw 1987– English swimmer Dana Vollmer 1987– American swimmer Daniel Hudson 1987– American baseball player Fabian Hambüchen 1987– German gymnast

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