David Joel Stern (September 22, 1942 – January 1, 2020)
David Stern was a businessman and lawyer who served as the fourth commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) He started with the league in 1966 as an outside counsel, joined the NBA in 1978 as General Counsel, and became the league’s Executive Vice President in 1980. He became Commissioner in 1984, succeeding Larry O’Brien and is credited with increasing the popularity of the NBA in the 1990s and 2000s.
In a statement, the NBA said Stern had died "as a result" of a brain hemorrhage he suffered Dec. 12.
Bird entered the NBA in 1979 and had an immediate impact on the league, winning Rookie of the Year after leading the Celtics to a 61-21 record and first place in the Atlantic Division just one year after they went 29-53 and finished in last place. In his second season.
John Joseph "Hondo" Havlicek (April 8, 1940 – April 25, 2019)
(Fox News) – John Havlicek, a legendary Boston Celtics star behind one of the most famous plays in NBA history, died Thursday in Jupiter, Florida. The Hall of Famer’s cause of death was not immediately known but, he had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease during his last years.
In Milwaukee on this day in 1992, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to life in prison. He was later sentenced to a 16th term of life imprisonment for an additional homicide committed in Ohio in 1978. On November 28 of 1994, he was beaten to death in prison by Christopher Scarver (below), a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution.
Christopher J. Scarver will be 50 in July.
Michael Jeffrey Jordan is 56 years old today.
Former high-flying Chicago Bulls shooting guard is considered by many to be the greatest basketball player of all-time. He was a 6-time NBA champion, 6-time NBA Finals MVP, and 5-time NBA MVP.He didn’t make the varsity squad as a sophomore at Emsley A. Laney High School in Wilmington, North Carolina because he was only 5’11".MJ is currently the principal owner and chairman of the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets.
Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 – April 5, 1964)
It was on this day in 1964.
Douglas General MacArthur Address a Joint session of the U.S. Congress on April 19, 1951 in Washington D. C.
It was on this day in 1976.
Hughes was an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.
Howard Robard Hughes Jr.(December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976)
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915)
Booker T. Washington was a educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community. He was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and becamethe leading voice of former slaves and their descendants.
Booker T. Washington giving a lecture in Carnegie Hall, 1906.
On this day in 1984, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Los Angeles Lakers) became the all-time NBA regular season scoring leader when he broke Wilt Chamberlain’s record of 31,419 career points.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.) will be 71 April 16.
Katie Couric became a CBS news anchor on this day in 2006.