American football player

J. J. McCarthy

Jonathan James McCarthy is an American professional football quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines, earning Big Ten Quarterback of the Year honors after leading the Wolverines to a 15–0 record and a national championship in 2023. In his three years at Michigan, the Wolverines won three Big Ten titles and made three College Football Playoff semifinal appearances. 964) in two seasons as a starting quarterback, the highest career winning percentage in NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) history.

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2003

January 20

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Key dates

2003 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

250 Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution.
1156 Finnish peasant Lalli kills English clergyman Henry, the Bishop of Turku, on the ice of Lake Köyliö.
1265 The first English parliament to include not only Lords but also representatives of the major towns holds its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster, now commonly known as the "Houses of Parliament".
1320 Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland.

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The world in 2003

When J. arrived

april 14 The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
april 14 U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
april 16 The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
april 17 Anneli Jäätteenmäki takes office as the first female prime minister of Finland.

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Chandra Wickramasinghe 1939– Sri Lankan-English mathematician, astronomer, and biologist David Lynch 1946–2025 American television and film director, visual artist and musician, complications from emphysema (born 1946) Derek Dougan 1938–2007 Irish-English footballer and journalist (died 2007) Enoch L. Johnson 1883–1968 American mob boss (born 1883) Eric Stewart 1945– English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Jan Muršak 1988– Slovenian ice hockey player Jeffrey Epstein 1953–2019 American financier and child sex trafficker (born 1953) José Luis Garci 1944– Spanish director and producer McKeeva Bush 1955– Caymanian politician, Premier of the Cayman Islands

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Amen Thompson 2003– American basketball player Anna Cathcart 2003– Canadian actress Bella Ramsey 2003– English actor Quvenzhané Wallis 2003– American actress

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