American basketball player and coach

Tyler Ulis

Tyler Ulis is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is currently an assistant coach at the University of Arkansas. He played college basketball at the University of Kentucky. In 2015, he led his team in assists, made the 2015 SEC All-Freshman Team, and led the 2014–15 Kentucky team that won its first 38 games before losing to Wisconsin in the final four of the 2015 NCAA tournament. As a sophomore, Ulis was a Consensus first-team All-American and earned the Southeastern Conference Player of the Year and SEC Defensive Player of the Year recognition.

Born

1996

January 5

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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1996 Born

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1477 Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France.
1675 Battle of Colmar: The French army defeats forces from Austria and Brandenburg.
1757 Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, who becomes the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering (the traditional form of capital punishment used for regicides).
1781 American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by former American general Benedict Arnold.

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The world in 1996

When Tyler arrived

april 13 Two women and four children are killed after an Israeli helicopter fires rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon.
april 18 The Israeli military commits the Qana massacre in a deliberate shelling of a United Nations compound near the village of Qana in southern Lebanon, killing 106 Lebanese civilians who were taking shelter there and wounding over 100 more.
april 21 Four people are killed and 75 are injured in a train accident in Jokela, Finland.
april 24 In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Bob Caruthers 1864–1911 American baseball player and umpire (born 1864) Carolyn McCarthy 1944–2025 American nurse and politician (died 2025) Claude Martin 1735–1800 French-English general and explorer (died 1800) Hosea Williams 1926– American businessman and activist (died 2000) Jean-Baptiste Say 1767–1832 French economist and academic (died 1832) Kristin Cavallari 1987– American television personality Paramahansa Yogananda 1893– Indian-American guru and philosopher (died 1952) Stephen Cole Kleene 1909–1994 American mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (born 1909) Suki Waterhouse 1992– English actress, singer-songwriter, and model

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1996

Aaron Ekblad 1996– Canadian ice hockey player Abigail Breslin 1996– American actress Austin Abrams 1996– American actor Ben Simmons 1996– Australian basketball player Caeleb Dressel 1996– American swimmer Emmanuel Mudiay 1996– Congolese-American basketball player Jacob Batalon 1996– Filipino-American actor Joshua Wong 1996– Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Kevin Fiala 1996– Swiss ice hockey player

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