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Marek Jankulovski is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a defender. His most notable achievements include winning the UEFA Champions League with AC Milan and bein…
Marek Jankulovski, Czech footballer
Lufthansa Flight 181, a Boeing 737-200 jet airliner named Landshut, was hijacked on 13 October 1977 by four militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine while en …
The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.
The German Autumn refers to the period and political atmosphere in the Federal Republic of Germany during September and October 1977. This period was marked by a series of attacks …
German Autumn: A set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a…
Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1964. The group originally formed as My Backyard and comprised Ronnie Van Zant (vocals), Gary Rossington…
A plane carrying the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in woodland in Mississippi, United States. Six people, including…
Ali Maow Maalin was a Somali hospital cook and health worker from Merca who is the last person known to have been infected with naturally occurring Variola minor smallpox. The dise…
Ali Maow Maalin, the last natural case of smallpox, develops a rash in Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date…
Svein Tuft is a Canadian former road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2019 for the Symmetrics, Garmin–Transitions, SpiderTech–C10, Mitchelton–Scott and Rally…
Svein Tuft, Canadian cyclist
Pablo Gabriel García Pérez is a Uruguayan professional football manager and former player who played as a defensive midfielder. He is the manager of Cypriot First Division club APO…
Pablo Gabriel García, Uruguayan footballer
Victor Matfield is a South African former professional rugby union player. He played for and captained the South Africa national team (Springboks) as well as the Blue Bulls in the …
Victor Matfield, South African rugby player, coach, and sportscaster
Frederik Reesen Magle is a Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist. He writes contemporary classical music as well as fusion of classical music and other genres. His composi…
Frederik Magle, Danish composer, organist, and pianist
Andruw Rudolf Jones is a Curaçaoan former professional baseball center fielder who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), most notably for the Atlanta Braves. He also pl…
Andruw Jones, Curaçaoan baseball player
John William Oliver is a British and American comedian, political commentator and television personality. He hosts Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO and started his career …
John Oliver, English comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
Carlos Iván Beltrán Valdés is a Puerto Rican former outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for seven teams from 1998 to 2017. A nine-time All-Star, he hit 20 home run…
Carlos Beltrán, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
Paul Frappier, better known by his stage name Bad News Brown, was a Canadian entertainer, musician, and hip hop MC of Haitian origin. He was known for pairing the sound of his chie…
Bad News Brown, Canadian rapper, harmonica player, and actor (died 2011)
Robert Francis Roode Jr. is a Canadian retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he works as a producer.
Bobby Roode, Canadian professional wrestler
Adrian Paul Morley is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played as a prop or second-row forward. With a reputation as a tough, uncompromising competitor, Mo…
Adrian Morley, English rugby league player
Graeme Dott is a Scottish former professional snooker player from Glasgow. He turned professional in 1994, first entered the top 16 in 2001, and reached his first world final at th…
Graeme Dott, Scottish snooker player and coach
Thomas Bryant Cotton is an American politician and former Army officer serving since 2015 as the junior United States senator from Arkansas. From 2013 to 2015 he served in the U.S.…
Tom Cotton, American politician
Renato Ruíz Cortes, better known by his ring name Averno (Hell), is a Mexican professional wrestler, signed to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). Ruíz initially worked for (CML…
Averno, Mexican wrestler
Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic …
Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (died 2017)
Ilse Annoeska de Lange, better known as Ilse DeLange, is a Dutch country and pop rock singer-songwriter. In 1998, she gained fame with her single 'I'm Not So Tough', which later be…
Ilse DeLange, Dutch singer-songwriter
Samantha Jane Morton is an English actress and musician. Known for her work in independent films, particularly period dramas with dark and tragic themes, her accolades include two …
Samantha Morton, English actress and director
Terrence LeVarr Thornton, better known by his stage name Pusha T, is an American rapper. He rose to prominence as one half of the Virginia-based hip hop duo Clipse, which he formed…
Pusha T, American rapper
Harry Leroy Halladay III was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies between 1998 an…
Roy Halladay, American baseball player (died 2017)
Ada Nicodemou is an Australian actress of Greek Cypriot descent. She began her acting career in 1994 in TV serial Heartbreak High as Katerina Ioannou. She also starred in Police Re…
Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress