English diver

Tom Daley

Thomas Robert Daley is an English retired diver, YouTuber and television personality. He is an Olympic champion in the men's synchronised 10-metre platform event at the 2020 Olympics and double world champion in the FINA 10-metre platform event, winning in 2009 at the age of fifteen, and again in 2017. He is an Olympic bronze medallist in the 2012 platform event, the 2016 synchronised event, and the 2020 platform event. He won the silver medal in the men's synchronised 10-metre at the 2024 Olympics, making him the first British diver to win 5 Olympic medals.

Born

1994

May 21

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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1994 Born

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293 Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
878 Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabids after a nine-month siege.
879 Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state.
996 Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.

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The world in 1994

When Tom arrived

april 14 In a friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two U.S. Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two U.S. Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
april 15 Marrakesh Agreement relating to foundation of World Trade Organization is adopted.
april 24 A Douglas DC-3 ditches in Botany Bay after takeoff from Sydney Airport. All 25 people on board survive.
april 26 China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.

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Albrecht Dürer 1471–1528 German painter, engraver, and mathematician (born 1471) Elizabeth Fry 1780–1845 English prison reformer, philanthropist and Quaker (died 1845) Gotye 1980– Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter Jamaal Magloire 1978– Canadian basketball player and coach John Dalton 1943–1844 English physicist, meteorologist, and chemist (born 1776) Jonathan Hyde 1948– Australian-English actor Joseph Fouché 1759– French lawyer and politician (died 1820) Lázaro Cárdenas 1895–1970 Mexican general, president (1934–1940) and father of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (died 1970) Manly Wade Wellman 1903–1986 American writer (born 1903)

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Austin Gunn 1994– American professional wrestler Cr1TiKaL 1994– American YouTuber and streamer Dylann Roof 1994– American mass murderer Esther Earl 1994– American author, vlogger, and online personality (died 2010) Kang Ji-young 1994– South Korean singer Kris Dunn 1994– American basketball player Lejla Njemčević 1994– Bosnian cross-country and mountain bike cyclist Lil Baby 1994– American rapper Maggie Rogers 1994– American musician

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