American basketball player and coach

Craig Hodges

Craig Anthony Hodges is an American former professional basketball player and former head coach of the Westchester Knicks of the NBA Development League. He played in the NBA for 10 seasons and is one of only 6 players to lead the league in 3-point shooting percentage multiple times. He won two NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls and, along with Larry Bird and Damian Lillard, is one of only three players to win three Three Point Contests at the National Basketball Association All-Star Weekend, winning the competition in 1990, 1991, and 1992. Hodges also holds the Three Point Contest records for the most consecutive shots made with 19, set in 1991, and the most points scored in a single round at 25, set in 1986.

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1960

June 27

Died

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1960s

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Key dates

1960 Born

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1499 Amerigo Vespucci sights what is now Amapá State in Brazil.
1556 The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.
1743 In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.
1760 Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.

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The world in 1960

When Craig arrived

april 1 The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
april 13 The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
april 15 At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
april 19 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on June 27

Abbath Doom Occulta 1973– Norwegian musician Charlie Macartney 1886–1958 Australian cricketer and soldier (died 1958) Danny Schechter 1942–2015 American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015) Drake Bell 1986– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor Jennifer Goodridge 1980– American keyboard player Juan Trippe 1899–1981 American businessman, founded Pan American World Airways (born 1899) Maximilian 1596– Prince of Dietrichstein (died 1655) Philip Guston 1913–1980 American painter and academic (died 1980) R. D. Burman 1939–1994 Indian film composer and music director (born 1939)

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Aaron Allston 1960–2014 American game designer and author (died 2014) Akbar Ganji 1960– Iranian journalist and author Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor 1960– second son of Elizabeth II Annabella Sciorra 1960– American actress Arjen Anthony Lucassen 1960– Dutch singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Ayuo Takahashi 1960– Japanese-American singer-songwriter Bernard Rose 1960–1996 English director, screenwriter, and cinematographer Cem Uzan 1960– Turkish businessman and politician Dan Hawkins 1960– American football player, coach, and sportscaster

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