American basketball player (died 2017)

Connie Hawkins

Cornelius Lance "Connie" Hawkins was an American professional basketball player. A New York City playground legend, "the Hawk" was to play basketball for the Iowa Hawkeyes but was unjustly implicated in a point-shaving scandal that saw him kicked out of school as a freshman and essentially blackballed from the NBA. Hawkins found refuge with the Pittsburgh Rens of the American Basketball League, where he won the 1961 league MVP before the league folded. He played four years for the famed exhibition team Harlem Globetrotters before getting to play in the American Basketball Association with the Pittsburgh Pipers in 1967.

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1942

July 17

Died

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180 Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
1048 Damasus II is elected pope, and dies 23 days later.
1203 The Fourth Crusade assaults Constantinople. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile.
1402 Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming dynasty of China.

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The world in 1942

When Connie arrived

april 15 World War II: The George Cross is awarded "to the island fortress of Malta" by King George VI.
april 17 World War II: French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Königstein Fortress.
april 18 World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
april 18 Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.

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Carlos Alberto Torres 1944–2016 Brazilian footballer and manager (died 2016) Eleanor Hadley 1916– American economist and policymaker (died 2007) Frank Olson 1910–1953 American chemist and microbiologist (died 1953) Georges Lemaître 1894–1966 Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (died 1966) James Somerville 1882–1949 English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (died 1949) Jason Clarke 1969– Australian actor Lou Boudreau 1917–2001 American baseball player and manager (born 1917) Oliver Ekman-Larsson 1991– Swedish ice hockey player Paul Delaroche 1797–1856 French painter and academic (died 1856)

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Alvin Stardust 1942–2014 English singer and actor (born 1942) Andraé Crouch 1942–2015 American singer-songwriter, producer, and pastor (born 1942) Andrew Robinson 1942– American actor and director Bill Conti 1942– American composer and conductor Bob Hoskins 1942–2014 English actor (born 1942) Danny Schechter 1942–2015 American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015) David Stern 1942–2020 American lawyer and businessman (born 1942) Dino Zoff 1942– Italian footballer Frankie Lymon 1942–1968 American singer-songwriter (born 1942)

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