Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2011)

Brad McCrimmon

Byron Brad McCrimmon was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. A defenceman, he played over 1,200 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Boston Bruins, Philadelphia Flyers, Calgary Flames, Detroit Red Wings, Hartford Whalers and Phoenix Coyotes between 1979 and 1997. He achieved his greatest success in Calgary, where he was named a second team All-Star in 1987–88, played in the 1988 NHL All-Star Game and won the Plus-Minus Award with a league leading total of +48. In 1989, he helped the Flames win their only Stanley Cup championship.

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1959

March 29

Died

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1950s

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1139 Pope Innocent II issues the bull Omne datum optimum in which he endorses the Knights Templar and approves the Templar Rule.
1430 The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice.
1461 Battle of Towton: Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England, bringing a temporary stop to the Wars of the Roses.
1549 The city of Salvador, Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.

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The world in 1959

When Brad arrived

april 25 The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
april 8 A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
april 8 The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
april 9 Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".

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Billy Beane 1962– American baseball player and manager Christopher Lambert 1957– American-French actor Edwin Lutyens 1869–1944 English architect, designed the Castle Drogo and Thiepval Memorial (born 1869) Israel Finkelstein 1949– Israeli archaeologist and professor Jo Nesbø 1960– Norwegian writer, musician and football player John Tyler 1790–1862 American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 10th President of the United States (born 1790) Lou Henry Hoover 1874– American philanthropist and geologist, 33rd First Lady of the United States (died 1944) Michael Brecker 1949–2007 American saxophonist and composer (born 1949) Nick Ut 1951– Vietnamese-American photographer

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Ahmet Davutoğlu 1959– Turkish political scientist, academic, and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Turkey Aidan Quinn 1959– American actor Albert Owen 1959– Welsh sailor and politician Andrew Bolt 1959– Australian journalist Anna Escobedo Cabral 1959– American lawyer and politician, 42nd Treasurer of the United States Barry O'Farrell 1959– Australian politician, 43rd Premier of New South Wales Boris Nemtsov 1959–2015 Russian academic and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (born 1959) Brett Bodine 1959– American NASCAR driver Colin Quinn 1959– American comedian and actor

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