American businessman, founded the Boston Celtics (died 1964)

Walter A. Brown

Walter Augustine Brown was an American sports executive. He was the founder and original owner of the Boston Celtics, operated the Boston Garden-Arena Corporation, and served as president of the Boston Athletic Association. In ice hockey, he coached the Boston Olympics to five Eastern Hockey League championships, owned the Boston Bruins, and served as president of the International Ice Hockey Federation. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1962, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1965, and IIHF Hall of Fame in 1997.

Born

1905

February 10

Died

1964

Era

1900s

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Walter, in brief

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Key dates

1905 Born
1964 Died

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1258 The Siege of Baghdad ends with the surrender of the last Abbasid caliph to Hulegu Khan, a prince of the Mongol Empire.
1306 In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparking the revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
1355 The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1392 Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos marries Helena Dragaš, daughter of the Serbian Prince Constantine Dragaš. She is crowned as empress the following day.

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The world in 1905

When Walter arrived

april 17 The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
april 3 Association football club Boca Juniors is founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina
april 30 Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
april 4 In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on February 10

Adelina Patti 1843–1919 Italian-French opera singer (died 1919) Alexandre Millerand 1859–1943 French lawyer and politician, 12th President of France (born 1859) Ary Scheffer 1795–1858 Dutch-French painter and academic (died 1858) Bertolt Brecht 1898–1956 German poet, playwright, and director (born 1898) C. J. Anderson 1991– American football player Greg Norman 1955– Australian golfer and sportscaster Ira Remsen 1846–1927 American chemist and academic (died 1927) Lee Hsien Loong 1952– Singaporean general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore Lilly King 1997– American swimmer

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1905

Andy Devine 1905–1977 American actor (born 1905) Dorothy Fields 1905–1974 American songwriter (died 1974) Eleanor Audley 1905–1991 American actress (died 1991) Félix Houphouët-Boigny 1905–1993 Ivoirian physician and politician, 1st President of Ivory Coast (born 1905) Franchot Tone 1905–1968 American actor, singer, and producer (died 1968) Francisco Javier Arana 1905–1949 Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (died 1949) Geoffrey Grigson 1905–1985 English poet and critic (died 1985) Helen Sawyer Hogg 1905–1993 American-Canadian astronomer and academic (died 1993) J. William Fulbright 1905–1995 American lawyer and politician (died 1995)

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