Australian rugby league player

Anthony Minichiello

Anthony Minichiello is a former professional rugby league footballer who captained the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League, and retired having set records for most games and most tries in the club's history. An Australia and Italy international as well as a New South Wales State of Origin representative wing turned fullback, he played his entire career with the Roosters, with whom he won the 2002 and 2013 NRL Premierships, before retiring at the conclusion of the club's 2014 campaign. Minichiello also won the Golden Boot Award for international player of the year in 2005, and is the brother of fellow Italian international, Mark Minichiello.

Born

1980

May 24

Died

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1980 Born

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919 The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom.
1218 The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
1276 Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
1487 The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.

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The world in 1980

When Anthony arrived

april 12 The Americo-Liberian government of Liberia is violently deposed.
april 12 Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed.
april 12 Canadian runner and athlete, Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope Run in St. John's, NF
april 18 The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency.

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Artem Anisimov 1988– Russian ice hockey player Barry O'Farrell 1959– Australian politician, 43rd Premier of New South Wales Bartolo Colón 1973– Dominican-American baseball player Carmine Infantino 1925–2013 American illustrator (born 1925) Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686–1736 Polish-German physicist and engineer, developed the Fahrenheit scale (died 1736) Eduardo De Filippo 1900–1984 Italian actor and screenwriter (died 1984) Gerald Strickland 1861–1940 1st Baron Strickland, Maltese lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1861) Germanicus -15–19 Roman general (died 19) Henri Michaux 1899–1984 Belgian-French poet and painter (died 1984)

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Aaron Brown 1980–2024 American journalist and academic (born 1948) Bijou Phillips 1980– American actress and model Bradley Wiggins 1980– English cyclist Byron Leftwich 1980– American football player and coach Clinton Toopi 1980– New Zealand rugby league player Cody Ross 1980– American baseball player Daniel MacPherson 1980– Australian actor and television host Daniel Sedin 1980– Swedish ice hockey player D'banj 1980– Nigerian singer-songwriter and harmonica player

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