Australian-New Zealand rugby league player and coach

Nathan Cayless

Nathan Frederick Cayless is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s, and has coached in the 2010s. He played at representative level for New Zealand (captain), and at club level in the National Rugby League (NRL) for the Parramatta Eels, for whom he was a long-time captain, as a prop. He captained the New Zealand national team to a Rugby League World Cup victory over Australia in the 2008 Rugby League World Cup, and coached at club level in the Intrust Super Premiership for the Wentworthville Magpies from 2016 to 2018.

Born

1978

March 28

Died

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1970s

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1978 Born

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37 Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate.
193 After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Didius Julianus.
364 Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.
1065 The Great German Pilgrimage, which had been under attack by Bedouin bandits for three days, is rescued by the Fatimid governor of Ramla.

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The world in 1978

When Nathan arrived

april 14 Tbilisi demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
april 17 Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan.
april 27 John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, is released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Safford, Arizona, after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
april 27 The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

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Alexander Grothendieck 1928–2014 German-French mathematician and theorist (died 2014) Angelos Sikelianos 1884–1951 Greek poet and playwright (born 1884) Consalvo Sanesi 1911–1998 Italian racing driver (born 1911) Fra Bartolomeo 1472–1517 Italian painter (died 1517) Grace Hartigan 1922–2008 American painter and educator (died 2008) Mario Vargas Llosa 1936–2025 Peruvian novelist and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936) Melchior Ndadaye 1953– Burundian banker and politician, 4th President of Burundi (died 1993) Nasser Hussain 1968– Indian-English cricketer and sportscaster Terence MacSwiney 1879–1920 Irish republican politician and hunger striker; Lord Mayor of Cork (died 1920)

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Anamaria Marinca 1978– Romanian-English actress Andrew Rannells 1978– American actor and singer Ariel Pink 1978– American singer-songwriter Chad Johnson 1978– American football player Eiður Guðjohnsen 1978– Icelandic footballer Faye White 1978– English footballer Frederic Leclercq 1978– French heavy metal musician Gwendoline Christie 1978– English actress Hayley Wickenheiser 1978– Canadian ice hockey player

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