American football player and wrestler (died 2004)

Reggie White

Reginald Howard White was an American professional football defensive end who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons. White played college football for the Tennessee Volunteers, earning unanimous All-American honors. After playing two seasons for the Memphis Showboats of the United States Football League (USFL), he was selected in the first round of the 1984 NFL Supplemental Draft, and then played for the Philadelphia Eagles, the Green Bay Packers and the Carolina Panthers, becoming one of the most awarded defensive players in NFL history.

Born

1961

December 19

Died

2004

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1960s

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2004 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

653 Pope Martin I, having been abducted by Byzantine authorities from Rome for his opposition to Monothelitism, is tried in Constantinople.
1154 Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1187 Pope Clement III is elected.
1490 Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.

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The world in 1961

When Reggie arrived

april 11 The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
april 12 Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first crewed orbital flight, Vostok 1.
april 16 In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
april 17 Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.

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Also born on December 19

Carter G. Woodson 1875–1950 American historian, author, and journalist, founded Black History Month (born 1875) Doug Harvey 1924–1989 Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1989) Karim Benzema 1987– French footballer Mo Williams 1982– American basketball player Nathan Oliveira 1928– American painter and sculptor (died 2010) Phil Harris 1956–1995 American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1904) Philip V of Spain (died 1746) 1683– Ralph Richardson 1902–1983 English actor (died 1983) Robert V. Bruce 1923–2008 American historian and author (died 2008)

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Also born in 1961

Alain Vigneault 1961– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Ann Coulter 1961– American political commentator and author Artur Ekert 1961– Polish-British physicist and academic Ben Summerskill 1961– English businessman and journalist Cam Cameron 1961– American football player and coach Carl Lewis 1961– American long jumper and runner Christian Okoye 1961– American football player Cindy Herron 1961– American singer-songwriter and actress David Armstrong-Jones 1961– 2nd Earl of Snowdon, English businessman

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