American basketball player and sportscaster

Reggie Miller

Reginald Wayne Miller is an American former professional basketball player who played his entire 18-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Indiana Pacers. Widely recognized as one of the greatest shooters in NBA history, he was known for his precision three-point shooting, especially in pressure situations and most notably against the New York Knicks, for which he earned the nickname "Knick Killer". A five-time All-Star selection, Miller was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012 and named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team in 2021.

Born

1965

August 24

Died

Living

Era

1960s

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Key dates

1965 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

367 Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father.
394 The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, is written.
410 The Visigoths under King Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.
1185 Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans.

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The world in 1965

When Reggie arrived

april 11 The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-five tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states of the United States, killing 266 people.
april 21 The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
april 24 Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
april 28 United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate US Army troops.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on August 24

Agnes Marshall 1852– English culinary entrepreneur, inventor, and celebrity chef (died 1905) Albert Claude 1899–1983 Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1983) Andrew Brunette 1973– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Jorge Luis Borges 1899–1986 Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator (died 1986) Peder Griffenfeld 1635–1699 Danish lawyer and politician (died 1699) René Lévesque 1922–1987 Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Premier of Quebec (died 1987) Stephen Fry 1957– English actor, journalist, producer, and screenwriter Vladimir Masorin 1947– Russian admiral

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1965

Dmitry Medvedev 1965– Russia businessperson 2 Cold Scorpio 1965– American wrestler Andrew Stanton 1965– American voice actor, director, producer, screenwriter Annie Duke 1965– American poker player and author Aravinda de Silva 1965– Sri Lankan cricketer Claude Lemieux 1965– Canadian ice hockey player Craig Biggio 1965– American baseball player and coach David Miliband 1965– English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Dennis Lehane 1965– American author, screenwriter, and producer

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