Australian rules footballer (died 2011)

Terry Moriarty

Terrence Brian "Terry" Moriarty was an Australian rules footballer who played with the Perth Football Club in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL). Having won the club's best and fairest trophy in his first two seasons, Moriarty went on to play 253 games over a 15-season career, which remains a club record. He also played nine interstate matches for Western Australia. Having also served in the Australian Army during World War II, he was the winner of the 1943 Sandover Medal as the best player in the competition, and was inducted into the West Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2010.

Born

1925

July 3

Died

Living

Era

1920s

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Terry, in brief

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Life timeline

Key dates

1925 Born

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324 Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
987 Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792.
1035 William the Conqueror becomes the Duke of Normandy, reigning until 1087.
1535 Diego de Almagro leaves the recently conquered Inca capital of Cuzco to lead an expedition to Chile.

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The world in 1925

When Terry arrived

april 10 The Russian city of Tsaritsyn is renamed Stalingrad to honor the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Soviet Communist Party General Secretary, who had guided the defense of Tsaritsyn during the Russian Civil War in 1920.
april 16 During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
april 17 The Communist Party of Korea (CPK) was founded in Japanese-ruled Korea (Chōsen) in Keijō (now Seoul) by Kim Yong-bom and Pak Hon-yong.
april 19 Colo-Colo, the most successful and popular soccer football team in the South American nation of Chile, was founded at the El Llano Stadium in San Miguel, Santiago, by footballer David Arellano and some of his teammates who had also left the Deportes Magallanes club.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on July 3

Alfred Korzybski 1879– Polish-American mathematician, linguist, and philosopher (died 1950) Anthony Lester 1936– Baron Lester of Herne Hill, English lawyer and politician (died 2020) Carl Ludvig Engel 1778– German architect (died 1840) Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860–1935 American sociologist and author (born 1860) Franz Kafka 1883–1924 Czech-Austrian author (died 1924) George Sanders 1906–1972 English actor (born 1906) Jean-Claude Duvalier 1951–2014 Haitian politician, 41st President of Haiti (died 2014) John Singleton Copley 1738–1815 American painter (died 1815) Kurtwood Smith 1943– American actor

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1925

Albert Bandura 1925– Canadian-American psychologist and academic (died 2021) Alexander Shulgin 1925–2014 American pharmacologist and chemist (died 2014) Allan Blakeney 1925–2011 Canadian scholar and politician, tenth Premier of Saskatchewan (born 1925) Arkady Ostashev 1925–1998 Soviet/Russian scientist and engineer (born 1925) Art McNally 1925– American football referee (died 2023) Carlos Castaneda 1925–1998 Peruvian-American anthropologist and author (born 1925) Carmine Infantino 1925–2013 American illustrator (born 1925) Chuck Bednarik 1925–2015 American lieutenant and football player (born 1925) Dominick Dunne 1925–2009 American journalist and novelist (born 1925)

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