American swimmer

Maya DiRado

Madeline Jane "Maya" DiRado-Andrews is a retired American competitive swimmer who specialized in freestyle, butterfly, backstroke, and individual medley events. She attended and swam for Stanford University, where she won NCAA titles in the 200 and 400 meter individual medley in 2014 and graduated with a degree in management science and engineering. At the 2016 US Olympic Trials, DiRado qualified to swim the 200 meter and 400 meter individual medley events, as well as the 200 meter backstroke, at the 2016 Summer Olympics. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she won a gold medal in the women's 4x200 meter freestyle relay, a silver medal in the 400 meter individual medley, a bronze medal in the women's 200 meter individual medley, and a gold medal in the 200 meter backstroke.

Born

1993

April 5

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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1993 Born

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The world in 1993

When Maya 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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Alfred Blalock 1899– American surgeon and academic (died 1964) Arthur Adams 1963– American comic book artist and writer Bette Davis 1908–1989 American actress (died 1989) Colin Powell 1937–2021 American general and politician, 65th United States Secretary of State (died 2021) Donald Lynden-Bell 1935–2018 English astrophysicist and astronomer (died 2018) Habib Elghanian 1912– Iranian businessman (died 1979) Haruma Miura 1990– Japanese actor and singer (died 2020) Jagjivan Ram 1908–1986 Indian politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of India (died 1986) John Carey 1934– English author and critic

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