Finnish ice hockey player, coach, and manager

Jari Kurri

Jari Pekka Kurri is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player. Beginning in 1980, he played right wing for five National Hockey League (NHL) teams: the Edmonton Oilers, the Los Angeles Kings, the New York Rangers, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, and the Colorado Avalanche. Prior to his NHL career, Kurri excelled for Jokerit in the SM-liiga and he rose from playing in the Finnish junior ice hockey team to the the country's national hockey team in two years. He was drafted as the fourth round of the 1980 NHL draft by the Oilers and immediately played for the team that year.

Born

1960

May 18

Died

Living

Era

1960s

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Jari, in brief

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Key dates

1960 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

332 Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
872 Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 47. His first coronation was 28 years earlier, in 844, during the reign of his father Lothair I.
1096 First Crusade: Around 800 Jews are massacred in Worms, Germany.
1152 The future Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. He would become king two years later, after the death of his cousin once removed King Stephen of England.

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The world in 1960

When Jari arrived

april 1 The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
april 13 The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
april 15 At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
april 19 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Bertrand Russell 1872–1970 English mathematician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1872) Augusto César Sandino 1895–1934 Nicaraguan rebel leader (born 1895) Jacques Santer 1937– Luxembourger jurist and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jens Bergensten 1979– Swedish video game designer, co-designed Minecraft Joan Eardley 1921–1963 British artist (born 1921) John Higgins 1975– Scottish snooker player Oliver Heaviside 1850– English engineer, mathematician, and physicist (died 1925) Simon Pagenaud 1984– French race car driver Troy Cassar-Daley 1969– Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

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