Slovak ice hockey player

Mário Bližňák

Mário Bližňák is a Slovak former professional ice hockey center. He previously played for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). After playing in the Slovak Extraliga, Bližňák was selected by the Canucks in the 2005 NHL entry draft, and moved to North America, joining the Vancouver Giants of the major junior Western Hockey League (WHL) in 2005. Bližňák played three seasons with the Giants, helping them win the Memorial Cup, the national championship for major junior hockey in Canada, in 2007, before joining the Moose in 2008.

Born

1987

March 6

Died

Living

Era

1980s

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Key dates

1987 Born

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-12 The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor.
845 The 42 Martyrs of Amorium are killed after refusing to convert to Islam.
1204 The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus.
1323 Treaty of Paris of 1323 is signed.

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The world in 1987

When Mário arrived

april 11 The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
april 21 The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
april 27 The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
april 4 Garuda Indonesia Flight 032 crashes at Medan Airport, killing 23.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Antoine-Henri Jomini 1779–1869 French-Russian general (born 1779) Donald Davidson 1917–2003 American philosopher and academic (born 1917) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806–1861 English poet and translator (born 1806) Gabriel García Márquez 1927–2014 Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927) Gordon Cooper 1927–2004 American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (died 2004)[citation needed] Lefty Grove 1900–1975 American baseball player (died 1975) Michelangelo 1475–1564 Italian sculptor and painter (born 1475) Obafemi Awolowo 1909–1987 Nigerian lawyer and politician (died 1987) Philip Sheridan 1831– Irish-American general (died 1888)

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Same-year contemporaries

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Andre Russell 1987– Jamaican cricketer Andrew Cogliano 1987– Canadian ice hockey player Brooklyn Decker 1987– American model and actress Carlos Quintero 1987– Colombian footballer Carolina Kostner 1987– Italian figure skater Charlotte Henshaw 1987– English swimmer Chelsea Manning 1987– American soldier and intelligence analyst Dana Vollmer 1987– American swimmer Daniel Hudson 1987– American baseball player

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