African American man murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin (born 1973)

George Floyd

George Perry Floyd Jr. was an African American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd had used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, on May 25, 2020. One of four police officers who arrived on the scene, Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd's neck and back for over nine minutes, fatally asphyxiating him. After his murder, a series of protests against police brutality, especially toward Black people, quickly spread nationally and then globally.

Born

1973

October 14

Died

2020

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1970s

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What else happened on this day, through history

1066 The Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of Hastings.
1322 Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
1586 Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1656 The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends.

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The world in 1973

When George arrived

april 1 Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India.
april 10 Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashes in a snowstorm on approach to Basel, Switzerland, killing 108 people.
april 19 The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
april 28 The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on October 14

Dwayne Schintzius 1968–2012 American basketball player (born 1968) Jennell Jaquays 1956– American game designer (died 2024) Jim Jackson 1970– American basketball player and sportscaster Joe Start 1842–1927 American baseball player and manager (born 1842) Lois Lenski 1893–1974 American author and illustrator (died 1974) Przemysł II of Poland (died 1296) 1257– Quinn Hughes 1999– American ice hockey player Steve Coogan 1965– English actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter Tillakaratne Dilshan 1976– Sri Lankan cricketer

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1973

Abbath Doom Occulta 1973– Norwegian musician Alexander Vinokourov 1973– Kazakh cyclist and manager Alexei Yashin 1973– Russian ice hockey player and manager Andrew Brunette 1973– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Bartolo Colón 1973– Dominican-American baseball player Chan Ho Park 1973– South Korean baseball player Crispian Mills 1973– English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and director Damon Stoudamire 1973– American basketball player and coach Derrick Brooks 1973– American football player

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