Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Keith Acton

Keith Edward Acton is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), with the Montreal Canadiens, Minnesota North Stars, Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers, Washington Capitals and New York Islanders between 1980 and 1994. In his NHL coaching career, he has been an assistant coach with the Columbus Blue Jackets, the Philadelphia Flyers, the New York Rangers, the Toronto Maple Leafs, and, most recently, the Edmonton Oilers, who released Acton and fellow assistant Craig Ramsay on June 4, 2015.

Born

1958

April 15

Died

Living

Era

1950s

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1958 Born

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769 The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.
1071 Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to the Norman Robert Guiscard.
1071 The sharif of Mecca changes the khutbah from the Shiite Fatimid caliph in Cairo to the Sunni Abbasid Caliph in Bagdhad.
1191 Henry VI, King of Germany, is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by pope Celestine III.

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The world in 1958

When Keith arrived

april 14 The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
april 21 United Air Lines Flight 736 collides with a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterprise, Nevada.
april 26 Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
april 4 The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.

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Leonardo da Vinci 1452–1519 Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (died 1519) Leonhard Euler 1707–1783 Swiss mathematician and physicist (died 1783) Alla Pugacheva 1949– Russian singer-songwriter and actress Ashleigh Gardner 1997– Australian cricketer Claudia Cardinale 1938– Italian actress (died 2025) Corrie ten Boom 1892– Dutch-American clocksmith, Nazi resister, and author (died 1983) Dawn Wright 1961– American geographer and oceanographer Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1772–1844 French biologist and zoologist (died 1844) Harold Washington 1922–1987 American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Chicago (died 1987)

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Adrian Newey 1958– English aerodynamicist and engineer Andy Reid 1958– American football player and coach Anna Politkovskaya 1958–2006 Russian journalist and activist (died 2006) Betsy DeVos 1958– American businesswoman and politician, 11th Secretary of Education Caryl Phillips 1958– Caribbean-English author and playwright Charlie Kaufman 1958– American director, producer, and screenwriter Chris Columbus 1958– American director, producer, and screenwriter Hugo Sánchez 1958– Mexican footballer, coach, and manager Jennifer Saunders 1958– English actress, comedian and screenwriter

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