American football player

Ray Rice

Raynell Mourice Rice is an American former professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons with the Baltimore Ravens. He played college football for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, earning first-team All-American honors in 2007, and was selected by the Ravens in the second round of the 2008 NFL draft. During his career, Rice was named to three Pro Bowls and was a member of the team that won Super Bowl XLVII. He is second in franchise rushing yards, rushing attempts, and rushing touchdowns, and he is third in the franchise in combined touchdowns.

Born

1987

January 22

Died

Living

Era

1980s

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Ray, in brief

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Key dates

1987 Born

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613 Eight-month-old Heraclius Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
871 Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vikings at Basing.
1506 The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
1517 The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya.

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The world in 1987

When Ray 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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Francis Bacon 1561–1992 Irish painter (born 1909) Alf Ramsey 1920–1999 English footballer and manager (born 1920) August Strindberg 1849–1912 Swedish novelist, poet, and playwright (died 1912) Beatrice Webb 1858–1943 English sociologist and economist (born 1858) Bill Bixby 1934–1993 American actor and director (died 1993) Bill Durnan 1916–1972 Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1972) Cameron McConville 1974– Australian racing driver and sportscaster Carl F. H. Henry 1913– American theologian and publisher (died 2003) John Wesley Shipp 1955– American actor

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1987

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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