American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster

Isiah Thomas

Isiah Lord Thomas III, also known as "Zeke", is an American former professional basketball player who is a current analyst for NBA TV and Fox Sports. He played his entire professional career for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely regarded as one of the greatest point guards of all time, Thomas was a two-time NBA champion, an NBA Finals MVP recipient, a five-time All-NBA Team member, a 12-time NBA All-Star with two All-Star Game MVP awards and the 1985 NBA assist leader. He was named to the NBA's 50th and 75th anniversary teams, and inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000.

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1961

April 30

Died

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1960s

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1961 Born

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311 The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.
1305 Roger de Flor, leader of the mercenary Catalan Company, is murdered, leading to widespread pillaging by the mercenaries in Thrace.
1315 Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois.
1492 Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration. He is named admiral of the ocean sea, viceroy and governor of any territory he discovers.

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The world in 1961

When Isiah arrived

april 11 The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
april 12 Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first crewed orbital flight, Vostok 1.
april 16 In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
april 17 Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.

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Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777–1855 German mathematician and physicist (died 1855) Albrecht von Roon 1803–1879 Prussian soldier and politician, 10th Minister President of Prussia (died 1879) Cloris Leachman 1926–2021 American actress and comedian (died 2021) Eugen Bleuler 1857–1940 Swiss psychiatrist and eugenicist (died 1940) Jill Clayburgh 1944–2010 American actress (died 2010) Luigi Russolo 1883– Italian painter and composer (died 1947) Mac DeMarco 1990– Canadian singer-songwriter Paula Ribó 1990– Spanish singer-songwriter and actress

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Alain Vigneault 1961– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Ann Coulter 1961– American political commentator and author Artur Ekert 1961– Polish-British physicist and academic Ben Summerskill 1961– English businessman and journalist Cam Cameron 1961– American football player and coach Carl Lewis 1961– American long jumper and runner Christian Okoye 1961– American football player Cindy Herron 1961– American singer-songwriter and actress David Armstrong-Jones 1961– 2nd Earl of Snowdon, English businessman

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