Canadian snowboarder

Mark McMorris

Mark Lee McMorris is a Canadian professional snowboarder who specializes in slopestyle and big air events. A three-time Olympic bronze medallist, he placed third in each of the 2014 Winter Olympics, 2018 Winter Olympics, and 2022 Winter Olympics in the slopestyle event. While filming for Transworld Snowboarding's "Park Sessions" video in March 2011, Mark became the first person to land a Backside Triple Cork 1440. More recently, on April 28, 2018, Mark landed the world's first Double Cork off a rail, the Front-Board Double Cork 1170, with a melancholy grab.

Born

1993

December 9

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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1993 Born

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The world in 1993

When Mark arrived

april 1 NASCAR champion Alan Kulwicki is killed in a plane crash near the Tri-Cities Regional Airport in Blountville, Tennessee.
april 11 Four hundred fifty prisoners riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and would continue to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
april 11 Guillem Agulló, pro-Catalan independence and anti-fascist Valencian young activist, is assassinated by a group of Spanish nationalists and neo-nazis in Montanejos.
april 19 The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, US, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including 18 children under age 10, died in the fire.

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Colin McCool 1916– Australian cricketer (died 1986) Fritz Haber 1868–1934 Polish-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1934) Gemma Frisius 1508–1555 Dutch mathematician and cartographer (died 1555) John Dobson 1787–2014 English architect, designed Eldon Square and Lilburn Tower (died 1865) Neil Innes 1944–2019 English writer, comedian and musician (born 1944) Ödön von Horváth 1901–1938 Hungarian-German author and playwright (died 1938) Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores 1930–2016 Guatemalan soldier and politician, 27th President of Guatemala (died 2016) Peter 1392–1369 Duke of Coimbra (died 1449) Simon Helberg 1980– American actor, comedian, and musician

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