English gymnast

Beth Tweddle

Elizabeth Kimberly Tweddle is a retired English artistic gymnast. Renowned for her uneven bar and floor routines, she was the first female gymnast from Great Britain to win a medal at the European Championships, World Championships, and Olympic Games. Tweddle, known for her consistency and longevity as an elite gymnast, is regarded as a pioneer of the renaissance of British gymnastics at the beginning of the twenty-first century that saw the country's gymnastics programme progress from 'also ran' to consistent global competitiveness, and along with peers such as Vanessa Ferrari of Italy and Isabelle Severino of France, helped begin a period of significant success for western European gymnasts globally.

Born

1985

April 1

Died

Living

Era

1980s

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1985 Born

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285 Roman emperor Diocletian names Maximian his co-emperor ("Augustus").
527 Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
1081 Alexios I Komnenos overthrows the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, and, after his troops spend three days extensively looting Constantinople, is formally crowned on April 4.
1572 In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.

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The world in 1985

When Beth arrived

april 12 Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-51D to deploy two communications satellites.
april 19 Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
april 20 University of California, Riverside 1985 laboratory raid: Animal Liberation Front rescues 467 animals being tested in a lab at University of California, Riverside in Riverside, California, causing $700,000 in damages to the laboratory, in advocacy for animal rights.
april 21 The compound of the militant group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord surrenders to federal authorities in Arkansas after a two-day government siege.

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Also born on April 1

Anamaria Marinca 1978– Romanian-English actress Asa Butterfield 1997– English actor Bijou Phillips 1980– American actress and model David Gower 1957– English cricketer and sportscaster Ferenc Puskás 1927–2006 Hungarian footballer and manager (died 2006) Gil Scott-Heron 1949–2011 American singer-songwriter and author (died 2011) Hazem El Masri 1976– Lebanese-Australian rugby league player and educator James Fisk 1834– American businessman (died 1872) Lon Chaney 1883–1930 American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1930)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1985

Acie Law 1985– American basketball player Alison Pill 1985– Canadian actress Brent Burns 1985– Canadian ice hockey player Chad Henne 1985– American football player Cristiano Ronaldo 1985– Portuguese footballer David Hart Smith 1985– Canadian wrestler Deborah Ann Woll 1985– American actress Ibragim Todashev 1985– Russian-American mixed martial artist (died 2013) Inge Dekker 1985– Dutch swimmer

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