Australian cricketer

Tom Moody

Thomas Masson Moody is a former Australian international cricketer and current Director of Cricket of Sri Lanka Cricket. He ended his long tenure with the Indian Premier League team Sunrisers Hyderabad in August 2022 and was earlier appointed Director of Cricket at Desert Vipers, one of the six franchises in the ILT20, which was scheduled to begin in the UAE in January 2023. Moody was a part of the Australian team that won their first world title during the 1987 Cricket World Cup, and their second in the 1999 Cricket World Cup. He was the coach of the Sri Lankan team which finished as runners-up at the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

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1965

October 2

Died

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1965 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

829 Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.
939 Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other Frankish dukes.
1187 Saladin won Jerusalem after the city surrendered to his forces following a prolonged siege.
1263 The Battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.

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The world in 1965

When Tom 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 October 2

Camilla Belle 1986– American actress Henri Szeps 1943– Australian actor (died 2025) Joe Sacco 1960– Maltese-American journalist and cartoonist Lorraine Bracco 1954– American actress Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule (born 1869) William Ramsay 1852–1916 Scottish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)

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