American MLB player and NBA player (born 1930)

Gene Conley

Donald Eugene Conley was an American professional baseball and basketball player. He pitched for four teams in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1952 to 1963. Conley also played as a forward in the 1952–53 season and from 1958 to 1964 for two teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is the second person, after Otto Graham, to win championships in two of the four major American sports: one with the Milwaukee Braves in the 1957 World Series and three with the Boston Celtics from 1959 to 1961.

Born

1930

November 10

Died

2017

Era

1930s

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About

Gene, in brief

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1930 Born
2017 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

474 Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
937 Ten Kingdoms: Li Bian usurps the throne and deposes Emperor Yang Pu. The Wu State is replaced by Li (now called "Xu Zhigao"), who becomes the first ruler of Southern Tang.
1202 Fourth Crusade: Despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia).
1293 Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking the throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana.

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The world in 1930

When Gene arrived

april 18 A fire kills 118 people at a wooden church in the small Romanian town of Costești, most of them schoolchildren, after starting during Good Friday services.
april 2 After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
april 22 The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
april 28 The Independence Producers host the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on November 10

Dan Hawkins 1960– American football player, coach, and sportscaster Ennio Morricone 1928–2020 Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpet player (born 1928) Granville Sharp 1735–1813 English activist (born 1735) James Hood 1942– American activist (died 2013) Mackenzie Foy 2000– American actress and model Musa al-Kadhim the seventh Shia Imam (died 799) 745– Oliver Goldsmith 1728–1774 Irish novelist, playwright and poet (born 1728) Shawn Green 1972– American baseball player Terence Davies 1945–2023 English actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2023)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1930

Ahmad Shah of Pahang (died 2019) 1930– Alfred Balk 1930–2010 American journalist and author (died 2010) Alifa Rifaat 1930– Egyptian author (died 1996) Anne Francis 1930–2011 American actress (born 1930) Antony Armstrong-Jones 1930–2017 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer and a former member of the British royal family (born 1930) Carolyn Jones 1930–1983 American actress (died 1983) Chris Barber 1930– English trombonist and bandleader (died 2021) David Dacko 1930–2003 Central African politician, 1st president of the Central African Republic (died 2003) Dolores Huerta 1930– American activist, co-founded the United Farm Workers

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