Canadian basketball player and coach

Jamaal Magloire

Jamaal Dane Magloire is a Canadian former professional basketball player who currently serves as basketball development consultant and community ambassador for the Toronto Raptors. He played 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Charlotte Hornets, New Orleans Hornets, Milwaukee Bucks, Portland Trail Blazers, New Jersey Nets, Dallas Mavericks, Miami Heat, and Toronto Raptors. 11 m), 265 lb center was selected out of the University of Kentucky by the Charlotte Hornets, with the 19th overall pick in the 2000 NBA draft, after withdrawing his name from the previous draft. He was voted into the NBA All-Star Game in 2004, becoming the second Canadian All-Star in NBA history.

Born

1978

May 21

Died

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1970s

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1978 Born

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293 Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
878 Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabids after a nine-month siege.
879 Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state.
996 Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.

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The world in 1978

When Jamaal arrived

april 14 Tbilisi demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
april 17 Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan.
april 27 John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, is released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Safford, Arizona, after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
april 27 The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

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Albrecht Dürer 1471–1528 German painter, engraver, and mathematician (born 1471) Elizabeth Fry 1780–1845 English prison reformer, philanthropist and Quaker (died 1845) Gotye 1980– Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter John Dalton 1943–1844 English physicist, meteorologist, and chemist (born 1776) Jonathan Hyde 1948– Australian-English actor Joseph Fouché 1759– French lawyer and politician (died 1820) Lázaro Cárdenas 1895–1970 Mexican general, president (1934–1940) and father of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (died 1970) Manly Wade Wellman 1903–1986 American writer (born 1903) Mohanlal 1960– Indian actor

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Anamaria Marinca 1978– Romanian-English actress Andrew Rannells 1978– American actor and singer Ariel Pink 1978– American singer-songwriter Chad Johnson 1978– American football player Eiður Guðjohnsen 1978– Icelandic footballer Faye White 1978– English footballer Frederic Leclercq 1978– French heavy metal musician Gwendoline Christie 1978– English actress Hayley Wickenheiser 1978– Canadian ice hockey player

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