American football player and wrestler

William Perry

William Anthony Perry is a former American professional football defensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 10 seasons, primarily with the Chicago Bears. Nicknamed "the Refrigerator" due to his size, he played college football for the Clemson Tigers, winning ACC Player of the Year, and was selected by the Bears in the first round of the 1985 NFL draft. Perry gained popularity during his rookie season as a member of the 1985 Bears team that won the franchise's first Super Bowl title in Super Bowl XX. During the season, Perry occasionally played fullback in goal line situations and set the record for the heaviest player to score a touchdown at 335 pounds (152 kg).

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1962

December 16

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1962 Born

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533 The Digest, the great collection of all Roman jurists' law, is issued together with a new official law textbook for legal schools, The Institutes.
714 Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille (modern Belgium). He is succeeded by his infant grandson Theudoald, while his widow Plectrude holds actual power in the Frankish Kingdom.
755 An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Yanjing, initiating the An Lushan Rebellion during the Tang dynasty of China.
1431 Hundred Years' War: Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris.

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The world in 1962

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april 21 The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
april 26 NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
april 26 The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
august 11 Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.

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A. N. R. Robinson 1926–2014 Trinbagonian politician, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago (born 1926) Kim Chwa-chin 1889– South Korean guerrilla leader (died 1930) Krysten Ritter 1981– American actress, musician, and model Philip K. Dick 1928–1982 American philosopher and author (died 1982)

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