Australian baseball player

Peter Moylan

Peter Michael Moylan is an Australian former professional baseball player and current television sports commentator. In 2003, he played in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) as a member of the Macoto Gida team, and from 2006 to 2018 he played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a right-handed relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers and Kansas City Royals. He featured a mid-90s miles per hour fastball and threw sidearm. After his playing career Moylan became a baseball analyst covering the Atlanta Braves for the Fox Sports South network.

Born

1978

December 2

Died

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1970s

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1978 Born

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1244 Pope Innocent IV arrives at Lyon for the First Council of Lyon.
1409 The University of Leipzig opens.
1697 St Paul's Cathedral, rebuilt to the design of Sir Christopher Wren following the Great Fire of London, is consecrated.
1763 Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what will become the United States.

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The world in 1978

When Peter 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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Same-day contemporaries

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Adolph Green 1914–2002 American playwright and composer (died 2002) Deacon White 1847–1939 American baseball player and manager (died 1939) Harry Burleigh 1866– American singer-songwriter (died 1949) John Barbirolli 1899–1970 English cellist and conductor (died 1970) Julie Harris 1925–2013 American actress (born 1925) Lucy Liu 1968– American actress and producer Masafumi Gotoh 1976– Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Renee Montgomery 1986– American basketball player and executive Rewi Alley 1897–1987 New Zealand writer and political activist (died 1987)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1978

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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