American football player

Lamar Jackson

Lamar Demeatrice Jackson Jr. is an American professional football quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Louisville Cardinals, winning the Heisman Trophy in 2016, and was selected by the Ravens with the final pick in the first round of the 2018 NFL draft. A two-time recipient of the NFL Most Valuable Player (MVP) award and the all-time leader in quarterback rushing yards, Jackson is regarded as one of the best quarterbacks of his generation, and by some analysts as one of the greatest dual-threat quarterbacks of all time.

Born

1997

January 7

Died

Living

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1990s

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1997 Born

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1078 The people of Constantinople revolt, lynch the unpopular official Nikephoritzes and proclaim Nikephoros Botaneiates as emperor.
1325 Afonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
1558 French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England.

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The world in 1997

When Lamar arrived

april 1 Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.
april 13 Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
april 14 Pai Hsiao-yen, daughter of Taiwanese artiste Pai Bing-bing, is kidnapped on her way to school, preceding her murder.
april 29 The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.

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Aloe Blacc 1979– American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, businessman and philanthropist Alvin Dark 1922–2014 American baseball player and manager (died 2014) Dustin Diamond 1977–2021 American actor, director, stand-up comedian, and musician (born 1977) Éric Gagné 1976– Canadian baseball player Israel Putnam 1718–1790 American general (died 1790) Joseph Whitty 1904–1923 Irish Republican died on hunger strike during the 1923 Irish Hunger Strikes (born 1904) Lauren Cohan 1982– American-English actress Sandford Fleming 1827–1915 Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time (died 1915) Tony Conigliaro 1945–1990 American baseball player (born 1945)

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Arike Ogunbowale 1997– American basketball player Asa Butterfield 1997– English actor Ashleigh Gardner 1997– Australian cricketer Brittany Broski 1997– American comedian and singer Cha Eun-woo 1997– South Korean singer, actor, and model Daniel Sprong 1997– Dutch ice hockey player Duncan Scott 1997– Scottish swimmer Greyson Chance 1997– American musician Holly Taylor 1997– Canadian-American actress

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