+Ann Curry birthplace_Ann Curry - place of birth:Guam,Guåhån is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States located in the western Pacific Ocean. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government.[2][3] Guam is listed as one of 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories by the Special Committee on Decolonization of the United Nations.[4] The island's capital is Hagåtña (formerly Agaña). Guam is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands.


The Chamorros, Guam's indigenous people, first populated the island approximately 4,000 years ago.[5] The island has a long history of European colonialism. Discovered by Ferdinand Magellan during a Spanish expedition on March 6, 1521, the first colony was established in 1668 by Spain with the arrival of settlers including Padre San Vitores, a Catholic missionary. For more than two centuries Guam was an important stopover for the Spanish Manila Galleons that crossed the Pacific annually. The island was controlled by Spain until 1898, when it was surrendered to the United States during the Spanish-American War and later formally ceded as part of the Treaty of Paris.
As the largest island in Micronesia and the only U.S. held island in the region before World War II, Guam was captured by the Japanese on December 8, 1941, hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and was occupied for two and a half years.
During the occupation, the people of Guam were subjected to acts that included torture, beheadings and rape,[6] and were forced to adopt the Japanese culture.[7] Guam was subject to fierce fighting when U.S. troops recaptured the island on July 21, 1944, a date commemorated every year as Liberation Day.[8]
Today, Guam's economy is supported by its principal industry, tourism, which is composed primarily of visitors from Japan. Guam's second-largest source of income is the United States military.[9]
Born: 19 November 1956
Birthplace: Guam
Best known as:
The TV personality who replaced Meredith Vieira on NBC's Today

Ann Curry was a reporter and news anchor for NBC television's Today program from 1997 until 2011, when she was promoted to be the show's co-host (with Matt Lauer). Curry was born in Guam to a Japanese mother and an American sailor, and spent her early childhood on a naval base in Japan. She then grew up in Ashland, Oregon, and graduated from the University of Oregon School of Journalism in 1978. Curry was a TV reporter in Oregon at Medford's KTVL (1979-80) and Portland's KGW (1980-84), then spent six years in Los Angeles at KCBS before being hired by NBC in 1990. Since then Curry has been a news anchor and correspondent, reporting on foreign affairs and natural disasters and interviewing the likes of Lance Armstrong, Laura Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. She joined the Today cast in 1997 as a news anchor, and became co-host of NBC's Dateline in 2005. Ann Curry replaced Meredith Vieira as co-host of Today in 2011.


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