Australian rugby player (born 1884)

Reginald Baker

Reginald Leslie "Snowy" Baker was an Australian athlete, sports promoter, and actor. Born in Surry Hills, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Baker excelled at a number of sports, winning New South Wales swimming and boxing championships while still a teenager. Playing rugby union for Eastern Suburbs, he played several games for New South Wales against Queensland, and in 1904 represented Australia in two Test matches against Great Britain. At the 1908 London Olympics, Baker represented Australasia in swimming and diving, as well as taking part in the middleweight boxing event, in which he won a silver medal.

Born

1896

July 19

Died

1953

Era

1890s

Country

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1896 Born
1953 Died

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711 Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete: Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic.
939 Battle of Simancas: King Ramiro II of León defeats the Moorish army under Caliph Abd-al-Rahman III near the city of Simancas.

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The world in 1953

When Reginald departed

april 13 CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
april 24 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
april 25 Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
april 27 Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on July 19

A. J. Cronin 1896–1981 Scottish physician and author (born 1896) Alice Dunbar Nelson 1875– American poet and activist (died 1935) Baibars 1223–1277 Egyptian sultan (born 1223) Conrad Vorstius 1569– Dutch theologian (died 1622) Harold Camping 1921–2013 American evangelist, author, radio host (born 1921) Herbert Marcuse 1898–1979 German-American sociologist and philosopher (died 1979) Max Fleischer 1883– Austrian-American animator and producer (died 1972) Vladimir Mayakovsky 1893–1930 Georgian-Russian actor, playwright, and poet (born 1893)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1896

A. J. Cronin 1896–1981 Scottish physician and author (born 1896) Antonin Artaud 1896–1948 French actor and director (born 1896) Antonino Votto 1896–1985 Italian conductor (died 1985) Herbert Backe 1896–1947 German agronomist and politician (born 1896) Josephine Tey 1896–1952 Scottish author and playwright (born 1896) Karl Allmenröder 1896–1917 German soldier and pilot (born 1896) Lev Vygotsky 1896–1934 Belarusian-Russian psychologist and theorist (born 1896) Roman Jakobson 1896–1982 Russian–American linguist and theorist (born 1896) Salim Ali 1896– Indian ornithologist and author (died 1987)

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