American football player and sportscaster

Dan Fouts

Daniel Francis Fouts is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League (NFL) throughout his 15-season career (1973–1987). After a relatively undistinguished first five seasons in the league, Fouts came to prominence as an on-field leader during the Chargers' Air Coryell period. He led the league in passing yards every year from 1979 to 1982, throwing for over 4,000 yards in the first three of these—no quarterback had previously posted consecutive 4,000-yard seasons. Fouts was voted a Pro Bowler six times, first-team All-Pro twice, and in 1982 he was the Offensive Player of the Year.

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1951

June 10

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1951 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

671 Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu.
1190 Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
1225 Pope Honorius III issues the bull Vineae Domini custodes in which he approves the mission of Dominican friars to Morocco.
1329 The Battle of Pelekanon is the last attempt of the Byzantine Empire to retain its cities in Asia Minor.

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The world in 1951

When Dan arrived

april 11 Korean War: President Truman relieves Douglas MacArthur of the command of American forces in Korea and Japan.
april 11 The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
april 17 The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
april 22 Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on June 10

Bruno Bartoletti 1926–2013 Italian conductor (died 2013) Cora Agnes Benneson 1851–1919 American attorney (died 1919) Don Maitz 1953– American artist Eugene Parker 1927– American astrophysicist and academic (died 2022) Frederick Cook 1865– American physician and explorer (died 1940) Gustave Courbet 1819–1877 French-Swiss painter and sculptor (born 1819) James Francis Edward Stuart 1688–1766 Jacobite pretender (born 1688) João Gilberto 1931–2019 Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist, pioneer of bossa nova music style (born 1931) Margarito Bautista 1878–1961 Nahua-Mexican evangelizer, theologian, and religious founder (born 1878)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1951

Alley Mills 1951– American actress Andrei Kozyrev 1951– Belgian-Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia Ashok Gehlot 1951– Indian politician, 21st Chief Minister of Rajasthan Barry Marshall 1951– Australian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Bobby Jones 1951–1971 American basketball player Bootsy Collins 1951– American singer-songwriter and bass player Charly García 1951– Argentine singer-songwriter and keyboard player Chesley Sullenberger 1951– American airline pilot and safety expert Chris Cooper 1951– American actor

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