Croatian basketball player

Nika Mühl

Nika Mühl is a Croatian professional basketball player for the Portland Fire of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for Sopron Basket of the Nemzeti Bajnokság I/A. She played college basketball as a point guard for the UConn Huskies. Twice named Big East Conference Defensive Player of the Year while in college, Mühl is UConn's all-time leader in career assists, with 686, and also holds the program records for most assists in a single season and in a single game. She was selected 14th overall by Seattle in the 2024 WNBA draft and also plays for Beşiktaş JK of the Women's Basketball Super League in Turkey.

Born

2001

April 9

Died

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2000s

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Key dates

2001 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

193 The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum.
475 Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position.
537 Siege of Rome: The Byzantine general Belisarius receives his promised reinforcements, 1,600 cavalry, mostly of Hunnic or Slavic origin and expert bowmen. Despite shortages, he starts raids against the Gothic camps and Vitiges but is forced into a stalemate.
1241 Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeat the Polish and German armies.

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The world in 2001

When Nika arrived

april 1 An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Chinese pilot ejected but is subsequently lost. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China and is detained.
april 1 Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
april 1 Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
april 11 The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China, after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.

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Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan 1285–1320 Emperor Renzong of Yuan (died 1320) Charles E. Burchfield 1893–1967 American painter (died 1967) Chorão 1970–2013 Brazilian singer-songwriter (died 2013) Cynthia Nixon 1966– American actress Elias Lönnrot 1802–1884 Finnish physician and philologist (died 1884) Erich Ludendorff 1865–1937 German general and politician (died 1937) Gian Maria Volonté 1933–1994 Italian actor (died 1994) Harris Wofford 1926–2019 American politician, author, and civil rights activist (died 2019) Heinz Meyer 1916– German Fallschirmjäger (paratrooper) during World War II (died 1987)

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