American basketball player

Amen Thompson

Ameiz XLNC "Amen" Thompson is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played basketball for Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was rated a five-star recruit by ESPN and won a state title. Thompson bypassed his senior year of high school to sign with OTE, where he played for two seasons and helped his team win the league title while earning All-OTE First Team honors in 2023. He was selected 4th overall in the 2023 NBA draft by the Houston Rockets.

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2003

January 30

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1018 Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.
1287 King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom.
1607 An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
1648 Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.

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The world in 2003

When Amen arrived

april 14 The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
april 14 U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
april 16 The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
april 17 Anneli Jäätteenmäki takes office as the first female prime minister of Finland.

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Davey Johnson 1943– American baseball player and manager (died 2025) Douglas Engelbart 1925–2013 American computer scientist, invented the computer mouse (died 2013) Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882–1945 American lawyer and politician, 32nd President of the United States (born 1882) Islam Karimov 1938–2016 Uzbek politician, 1st President of Uzbekistan (died 2016) Jack Laugher 1995– English diver John Crosbie 1931– Canadian lawyer and politician, 34th Canadian Minister of Justice (died 2020) Kid Cudi 1984– American entertainer Lady Anne Clifford 1590– 14th Baroness de Clifford (died 1676) Luca Sbisa 1990– Italian-Swiss ice hockey player and coach

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