American football player

Chad Johnson

Chad Ochocinco Johnson, known from 2008 to 2012 as Chad Ochocinco, is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Santa Monica Corsairs and the Oregon State Beavers, and played for the Cincinnati Bengals and the New England Patriots during his tenure playing in the NFL. He was selected by the Bengals in the second round of the 2001 NFL draft, and played for them for 10 seasons. "Ochocinco", which means "eight five" in Spanish, derives from his number, eighty-five.

Born

1978

January 9

Died

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1970s

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1978 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

400 Aelia Eudoxia is officially crowned empress of the Eastern Roman Empire.
475 Verina, the Eastern Roman dowager Empress, instigates a riot in Constantinople and persuades emperor Zeno, her son-in-law, to flee. The Byzantine senate, however, acclaims Basiliscus as emperor and not her lover Patricius.
681 Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
1038 An earthquake in Dingxiang, China kills an estimated 32,300.

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The world in 1978

When Chad arrived

april 14 Tbilisi demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
april 17 Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan.
april 27 John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, is released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Safford, Arizona, after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
april 27 The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Ágnes Keleti 1921–2025 Hungarian Olympic gymnast (born 1921) Álvaro Soler 1991– Spanish singer-songwriter Giovanni Papini 1881–1956 Italian journalist, author, and poet (died 1956) Gracie Fields 1898–1979 English actress and singer (died 1979) Halyna Kuzmenko 1897–1978 Ukrainian teacher and anarchist revolutionary (died 1978) J. K. Simmons 1955– American actor Joely Richardson 1965– English actress John B. Watson 1879–1958 American psychologist and academic (died 1958) Scott Walker 1943–2019 American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (died 2019)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1978

Anamaria Marinca 1978– Romanian-English actress Andrew Rannells 1978– American actor and singer Ariel Pink 1978– American singer-songwriter Eiður Guðjohnsen 1978– Icelandic footballer Faye White 1978– English footballer Frederic Leclercq 1978– French heavy metal musician Gwendoline Christie 1978– English actress Hayley Wickenheiser 1978– Canadian ice hockey player Jamaal Magloire 1978– Canadian basketball player and coach

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