Australian rugby league player and coach

Wayne Bennett

Wayne James Bennett is an Australian professional rugby league football coach who is the head coach of the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NRL and a former player. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest coaches of all time. Bennett has previously coached the Dolphins, the South Sydney Rabbitohs, the Brisbane Broncos, the Newcastle Knights, the St George Illawarra Dragons, the Canberra Raiders, the Queensland Maroons State of Origin team, the NRL All Stars and the Australian Kangaroos national team as well as the England and Great Britain national teams.

Born

1950

January 1

Died

Living

Era

1950s

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Wayne, in brief

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Key dates

1950 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

-153 For the first time, Roman consuls begin their year in office on January 1.
-45 The Julian calendar takes effect as the civil calendar of the Roman Republic, establishing January 1 as the new date of the new year.
-42 The Roman Senate posthumously deifies Julius Caesar.
193 The Senate chooses Pertinax against his will to succeed Commodus as Roman emperor.

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The world in 1950

When Wayne arrived

april 21 The Nainital wedding massacre occurs, killing 22 members of the Harijan caste.
august 1 Guam is organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States as the President Harry S. Truman signs the Guam Organic Act.
august 12 Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre: Seventy-five American POWs are massacred by the North Korean Army.
august 15 Measuring Mw 8.6, the largest earthquake on land occurs in the Assam-Tibet-Myanmar border, killing 4,800.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on January 1

Cristóbal Colón 1451–1506 Republic of Genoa sailor Avicenna 980–1037 astronomer Ali al-Ridha 766–818 8th Imam of Twelver Shia Islam (died 818) Artur Rodziński 1892–1958 Polish-American conductor (died 1958) Betsy Ross 1752–1836 American seamstress, sewed flags for the Pennsylvania Navy during the Revolutionary War (died 1836) Chesley Bonestell 1888–1986 American painter, designer, and illustrator (died 1986) Christian Paradis 1974– Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Canadian Minister of Industry Hank Greenberg 1911–1986 American baseball player (died 1986) Harry Coulby 1865–1929 American businessman (died 1929)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1950

Abraham Sarmiento 1950–1977 Jr., Filipino journalist and activist (died 1977) Alex Chilton 1950–2010 American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2010) Alexander Lebed 1950–2002 Russian general and politician (died 2002) Billy Smith 1950– Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager Charles Fleischer 1950– American comedian and actor Charles Krauthammer 1950–2018 American columnist and conservative political commentator (born 1950) Claire Morissette 1950– Canadian cycling activist (died 2007) Daniel Auteuil 1950– French actor, director, and screenwriter David Cannadine 1950– English historian and author

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