Charlie Wilson (Texas politician)

Charles Nesbitt Wilson was an American politician and naval officer who was a 12-term Democratic Representative from Texas's 2nd congressional district. Wilson is best known for leading Congress into supporting Operation Cyclone, the largest-ever Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) covert operation, which during the Carter and Reagan administrations supplied military equipment to the Afghan Mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War. His behind-the-scenes campaign was the subject of the non-fiction book Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History by George Crile III and the subsequent film Charlie Wilson's War, in which he was portrayed by Tom Hanks.

1 June 1933

Born on the same birth date (1 June 1933): Haruo Remeliik

Born on the same birth day (1 June): Carlos Zambrano • Frans Post • Jack Kralick • Kagayaki Taishi • Max Emmerich • Michel Plasse • Nelson Riddle • Perrin Beatty • Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury • Sergey Kuznetsov (footballer, born 1960) • Steve Dodd • Tiedemann Giese • Tom Holland • William Sloane Coffin

Born in the same month (June 1933): Al Cantello • Bata Živojinović • Bernie Kopell • Bob Shaw (baseball) • Claire Tomalin • Claudio Abbado • Danny Aiello • Dianne Feinstein • Gene Wilder • Gusty Spence • Haruo Remeliik • Heinrich Rohrer • Jerry Lumpe • Joan Rivers • M. J. K. Smith • Maurice Stokes • Mohammad-Ali Rajai • Orval Tessier • Tommy Hunt • Viktor Patsayev • Vladislav Rastorotsky