Congolese-American basketball player

Emmanuel Mudiay

Emmanuel Kabeya Mudiay is a Congolese-American professional basketball player for the Piratas de Quebradillas of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). He played high school basketball for Grace Preparatory Academy and Prime Prep Academy in Texas, where he received media attention. He committed to play for the SMU Mustangs men's basketball team on August 24, 2013, but later made the decision to forgo college and joined the Guangdong Southern Tigers in China. After an injury-riddled season in China, he was selected with the seventh overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft by the Denver Nuggets.

Born

1996

March 5

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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1996 Born

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1046 Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
1279 The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
1496 King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.

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The world in 1996

When Emmanuel arrived

april 13 Two women and four children are killed after an Israeli helicopter fires rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon.
april 18 The Israeli military commits the Qana massacre in a deliberate shelling of a United Nations compound near the village of Qana in southern Lebanon, killing 106 Lebanese civilians who were taking shelter there and wounding over 100 more.
april 21 Four people are killed and 75 are injured in a train accident in Jokela, Finland.
april 24 In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Canaan Banana 1936–2003 Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (died 2003) David II of Scotland (died 1371) 1324– Dean Stockwell 1936–2021 American actor (died 2021) Dora Marsden 1882–1960 English author and activist (born 1882) Edward Cornwallis 1713–1776 English general and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (born 1713) Gordon Bajnai 1968– Hungarian businessman and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Hungary Heitor Villa-Lobos 1887–1959 Brazilian guitarist and composer (died 1959) J. Hillis Miller 1928– American academic and critic (died 2021) James Tobin 1918–2002 American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1996

Aaron Ekblad 1996– Canadian ice hockey player Abigail Breslin 1996– American actress Austin Abrams 1996– American actor Ben Simmons 1996– Australian basketball player Caeleb Dressel 1996– American swimmer Jacob Batalon 1996– Filipino-American actor Joshua Wong 1996– Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Kevin Fiala 1996– Swiss ice hockey player Napheesa Collier 1996– American basketball player

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