South Sudanese-American basketball player

Bol Bol

Bol Manute Bol is a South Sudanese–American professional basketball player for the TNT Tropang 5G of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks. A son of basketball player Manute Bol, who was known for being one of the tallest players in NBA history, Bol was born in Khartoum, Sudan, but was raised in the Kansas City area from a young age. In high school, Bol was considered one of the best players in the class of 2018, having been rated a consensus five-star recruit and earning McDonald's All-American honors.

Born

1999

November 16

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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Bol, in brief

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1999 Born

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951 Emperor Li Jing sends a Southern Tang expeditionary force of 10,000 men under Bian Hao to conquer Chu. Li Jing removes the ruling family to his own capital in Nanjing, ending the Chu Kingdom.
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1491 An auto-da-fé, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
1532 Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa at the Battle of Cajamarca.

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The world in 1999

When Bol arrived

april 1 Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
april 12 United States President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a civil lawsuit; he is later fined and disbarred.
april 12 During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, an American McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle shoots a passenger train, killing between 20 and 60 people.
april 14 NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees. Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.

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