Australian basketball player

Ben Simmons

Benjamin David Simmons is an Australian professional basketball player who last played for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for one season with the LSU Tigers, after which he was named a consensus first-team All-American and the USBWA National Freshman of the Year. Simmons was selected with the first overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers. After sitting out a year due to an injured right foot, he was named the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2018 and was selected three times to the NBA All-Star Game.

Born

1996

July 20

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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Key dates

1996 Born

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70 Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
792 Kardam of Bulgaria defeats Byzantine Emperor Constantine VI at the Battle of Marcellae.
911 Rollo lays siege to Chartres.
1189 Richard I of England officially invested as Duke of Normandy.

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The world in 1996

When Ben arrived

april 13 Two women and four children are killed after an Israeli helicopter fires rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon.
april 18 The Israeli military commits the Qana massacre in a deliberate shelling of a United Nations compound near the village of Qana in southern Lebanon, killing 106 Lebanese civilians who were taking shelter there and wounding over 100 more.
april 21 Four people are killed and 75 are injured in a train accident in Jokela, Finland.
april 24 In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on July 20

Alberto Santos-Dumont 1873– Brazilian pilot (died 1932) Chris Cornell 1964–2017 American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2017) David Tonkin 1929–2000 Australian politician, 38th Premier of South Australia (died 2000) Elliot Richardson 1920–1999 American lawyer and politician, 69th United States Attorney General (born 1920) Gregor Mendel 1822–1884 Czech geneticist and botanist (born 1822) Heather Chasen 1927– English actress (died 2020) Heinie Manush 1901–1971 American baseball player and manager (died 1971) Ida Mett 1901–1973 Belarusian Jewish anarchist (died 1973) Jim Prentice 1956–2016 Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Premier of Alberta (died 2016)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1996

Aaron Ekblad 1996– Canadian ice hockey player Abigail Breslin 1996– American actress Austin Abrams 1996– American actor Caeleb Dressel 1996– American swimmer Emmanuel Mudiay 1996– Congolese-American basketball player Jacob Batalon 1996– Filipino-American actor Joshua Wong 1996– Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Kevin Fiala 1996– Swiss ice hockey player Napheesa Collier 1996– American basketball player

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