American football player

Martellus Bennett

Martellus Demond Bennett is an American former professional football player who was a tight end for 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies and was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the second round of the 2008 NFL draft. Bennett was a member of five teams during his career, most notably the Chicago Bears, with whom he earned Pro Bowl honors, and the New England Patriots, with whom he won Super Bowl LI. After retiring, Bennett became a children's author and published books under his publication company The Imagination Agency.

Born

1987

March 10

Died

Living

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1980s

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-241 First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
298 Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.
947 The Later Han is founded by Liu Zhiyuan. He declares himself emperor.
1496 After establishing the city of Santo Domingo, Christopher Columbus departs for Spain, leaving his brother in command.

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The world in 1987

When Martellus 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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Osama bin Laden 1957–2011 Saudi Arabian terrorist, founded al-Qaeda (died 2011) Barry Fitzgerald 1888–1961 Irish actor (born 1888) Edward Hodges Baily 1788– English sculptor (died 1867) Hector Guimard 1867–1942 French-American architect (died 1942) John Playfair 1748– Scottish minister and scientist (died 1819) Logan Mankins 1982– American football player Marcello Malpighi 1628–1694 Italian physician and biologist (died 1694) Pascual Ortiz Rubio 1877– Mexican diplomat and president (1930–1932) (died 1963) Val Logsdon Fitch 1923–2015 American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)

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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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