Canadian ice hockey player

Mark Giordano

Mark Giordano is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player who is an advisor for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). In the NHL, he played as a defenceman for the Calgary Flames for 15 seasons, where he was the team captain for his final eight seasons, and the Seattle Kraken, where he served as captain during the first six months of their inaugural season. An undrafted player, Giordano signed with the Flames as a free agent in 2004 after playing two seasons of major junior ice hockey with Owen Sound Attack of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL).

Born

1983

October 3

Died

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1980s

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1983 Born

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The world in 1983

When Mark arrived

april 12 Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago.
april 25 Cold War: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
april 25 Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
april 28 The West German news magazine Stern begins publishing excerpts from the purported diaries of Adolf Hitler, later revealed to be forgeries.

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