American snowboarder

Lindsey Jacobellis

Lindsey Jacobellis is an American snowboarder from Roxbury, Connecticut. The most decorated female snowboard cross athlete of all time, she dominated the sport for almost two decades as a five-time World Champion and ten-time X Games champion. In her Olympic debut at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Jacobellis won the silver medal in snowboard cross but was unable to medal at the next three Olympics until winning gold at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Jacobellis also won gold in mixed team snowboard cross at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

Born

1985

August 19

Died

Living

Era

1980s

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1985 Born

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-43 In the wake of the murder of Julius Caesar, his nephew and heir, Octavian, uses the threat of military force to compel the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
947 Abu Yazid, a Kharijite rebel leader, is defeated and killed in the Hodna Mountains in modern-day Algeria by Fatimid forces.
1153 After a six month siege, Baldwin III of Jerusalem captures Ascalon, obtaining a vast amount of plunder and securing the southern border of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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The world in 1985

When Lindsey arrived

april 12 Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-51D to deploy two communications satellites.
april 19 Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
april 20 University of California, Riverside 1985 laboratory raid: Animal Liberation Front rescues 467 animals being tested in a lab at University of California, Riverside in Riverside, California, causing $700,000 in damages to the laboratory, in advocacy for animal rights.
april 21 The compound of the militant group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord surrenders to federal authorities in Arkansas after a two-day government siege.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Bill Foster 1929–2016 American basketball player and coach (died 2016) Eddy Raven 1944– American country music singer-songwriter Edward Boscawen 1711–1761 English admiral and politician (died 1761) Ellen Willmott 1858–1934 English horticulturalist (died 1934) Francis I 1777–1765 Holy Roman Emperor (born 1708) Grace Hutchins 1885–1969 American labor reformer and researcher (died 1969) James Tomkins 1965– Australian rower José Mendes Cabeçadas 1883–1965 Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th President of Portugal (died 1965) Manuel L. Quezon 1878–1944 Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (born 1878)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1985

Acie Law 1985– American basketball player Alison Pill 1985– Canadian actress Beth Tweddle 1985– English gymnast Brent Burns 1985– Canadian ice hockey player Chad Henne 1985– American football player Cristiano Ronaldo 1985– Portuguese footballer David Hart Smith 1985– Canadian wrestler Deborah Ann Woll 1985– American actress Ibragim Todashev 1985– Russian-American mixed martial artist (died 2013)

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