English diver

Jack Laugher

Jack David Laugher is a British diver competing for Great Britain and England. A specialist on springboard, he competes in individual springboard events, and in synchronised events with Chris Mears, Daniel Goodfellow and Anthony Harding. Laugher and Mears became Britain's first diving Olympic champions by winning a gold medal in the men's synchronised 3m springboard event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, an achievement many had expected double world 10m champion Tom Daley would achieve first. A week later, Laugher won a silver in the men's individual 3m springboard at the same Games, becoming the first British diver to win multiple Olympic diving medals at the same Games.

Born

1995

January 30

Died

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1990s

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1995 Born

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1018 Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.
1287 King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom.
1607 An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
1648 Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.

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The world in 1995

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april 19 Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, US, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six.
april 7 First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
august 10 Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain for his testimony.
august 11 The Russell Hill subway accident in Toronto kills 3 and injures 30, due to a combination of human error and a safety system design flaw.

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Amen Thompson 2003– American basketball player Davey Johnson 1943– American baseball player and manager (died 2025) Douglas Engelbart 1925–2013 American computer scientist, invented the computer mouse (died 2013) Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882–1945 American lawyer and politician, 32nd President of the United States (born 1882) Islam Karimov 1938–2016 Uzbek politician, 1st President of Uzbekistan (died 2016) John Crosbie 1931– Canadian lawyer and politician, 34th Canadian Minister of Justice (died 2020) Kid Cudi 1984– American entertainer Lady Anne Clifford 1590– 14th Baroness de Clifford (died 1676) Luca Sbisa 1990– Italian-Swiss ice hockey player and coach

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Alvin Kamara 1995– American football player Arfa Karim 1995–2012 Pakistani student and computer prodigy (died 2012) Claressa Shields 1995– American boxer and mixed martial artist Emma Corrin 1995– English actor James Guy 1995– English swimmer Kehlani 1995– American singer-songwriter Kendall Jenner 1995– American television personality and model Leon Draisaitl 1995– German ice hockey player Mark Andrews 1995– American football player

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