Famous & 65
Look Who’s Turning 65
July 1 – Mike Haynes
Football Palyer
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A standout athlete for both the New England Patriots as well as the Los Angeles Raiders, cornerback Mike Haynes was also a standout punt render specialist. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame inwards 1997, as well as the College Football Hall of Fame inwards 2000.
Haynes was a first-round pick inwards the 1976 NFL draft for the Patriots. The squad wasn’t disappointed, equally he delivered 8 interceptions as well as an AFC-leading 608 yards on 45 punt returns. He also gave the squad their kickoff touchdown on punt return, therefore followed it upwards amongst another. His function on the plain earned him a Pro Bowl invitation equally a rookie player, the kickoff of nine such invites he would have over his career. He also got tapped for NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year after the Patriots went 11-3 as well as secured a playoff berth for the kickoff fourth dimension inwards thirteen years.
Haynes played vii years amongst the Patriots, racking upwards 28 interceptions as well as 1,159 yards on 111 returns. In 1984, Haynes was inducted into the Patriots Hall of Fame as well as the squad retired his number.
In Nov 1983, his contract was awarded to the Los Angeles Raiders nether a small town that handed the Patriots a 1984 No. 1 draft pick as well as a No. 2 pick the next year. Haynes played the lastly 5 games of the season, therefore started inwards Super Bowl XVIII. The Raiders emerged victorious equally Haynes made an interception, 2 overstep breakups as well as a tackle.
Over vii seasons amongst the Raiders, Haynes notched eighteen interceptions for a career full of 46 that he returned for 688 yards as well as 2 touchdowns, including 1 for 97 yards against Miami. He had the respect of existence an All-Pro pick 5 years, as well as a alternative for All-AFC 8 years.
July eleven – Leon Spinks
Boxer
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Leon Spinks managed 1 of the biggest upsets inwards boxing history when he defeated Muhammed Ali to win the undisputed heavyweight entitle inwards 1978 inwards alone his 8th professional person fight. The split upwards determination gave Spinks the distinction of existence the alone human to select a entitle from Ali inwards the ring. However, inwards a rematch vii months later, the aging Ali showed upwards to a greater extent than in-shape as well as sharper to win dorsum his entitle past times unanimous determination after fifteen rounds.
Spinks went on to struggle hereafter WBA globe heavyweight champ Gerrie Coetzee, European entitle holder Alfredo Evangelista as well as Eddie Lopez, only he would never find the entitle or glory of his struggle against Ali. Spinks switched to cruiserweight inwards 1982, as well as therefore competed inwards boxer v. wrestler matches inwards the 1980s, boxing in 1 trial again into the 1990’s, as well as finally retiring at the historic menses of 42.
Spinks was known for his gapped-tooth grin, a effect of losing two, as well as after four, of his front end teeth inwards the ring. He has slurred his words since his boxing days, probable a effect of punches he took. His boy Cory Spinks held the undisputed welterweight title. His other son, Leon Calvin, was tragically shot to decease spell he drove domicile inwards East St. Louis inwards 1990. Calvin had a 2-0 tape equally a low-cal heavyweight pro boxer at the time. His son, as well as Spink’s grandson, Leon Spinks III, is an aspiring low-cal heavyweight southpaw amongst vii knockouts to his credit. Spinks moved to Las Vegas inwards 2011 amongst his wife, Brenda.
July fifteen – Jean-Bertrand Aristide
President of Haiti
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Haiti’s kickoff democratically elected president, Aristide became wildly pop equally a champion of the poor. Originally a Roman Catholic priest, he became pop railing against abuses fomented past times the corrupt household unit of measurement dictatorship of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier as well as his father, “Papa Doc” Duvalier. At the same time, Aristide was appointed to St. Jean Bosco church, inwards a pitiful expanse of Port-au-Prince. There, he sponsored weekly youth Masses as well as founded an orphanage spell championing the aspirations of Haiti’s dispossessed. He survived 4 assassination attempts for his efforts, including a 1988 assault where thirteen parishoners were killed as well as seventy wounded, as well as his church building was burned to the the world spell the world forces as well as police delineate stood past times as well as did nothing.
Aristide didn’t spare criticism of the church building hierarchy, as well as inwards the same twelvemonth was expelled from his Salesian order. Accused of “incitement to hate as well as violence,” Aristide slammed the church building for failing to adequately back upwards the pitiful over the rich, noting Jesus could non get got the people going hungry.
During his short-lived initial term inwards office, Aristide attempted to instill reforms such equally bringing the armed services nether civilian control, investigating human rights violations, bringing Duvalier’s henchmen to trial, as well as prohibiting many wealthy Haitians from leaving the province pending an exam of their banking concern accounts. Making this many enemies inwards high places didn’t serve him well, as well as he was ousted inwards a 1991 coup d’état.
Aristide returned from exile to dominion in 1 trial again from 2001-2004, when he called for colonizer French Republic to repay $21 billion for making Republic of Haiti mitt over ninety 1000000 gilt francs inwards restitution for French belongings taken during the Haitian rebellion that ended inwards 1947. In 2004, Aristide claims French Republic as well as the U.S. participated inwards a “kidnapping” after he was forced to resign when he was threatened amongst decease if he refused to go. Aristide alleges that the U.S. reneged on promises made regarding privatization of enterprises as well as therefore “relied on a disinformation campaign” to discredit him. Congressman Maxine Waters supported the assertions.
After a long exile, Aristide returned to Republic of Haiti inwards 2011 where he was greeted at the aerodrome past times thousands of supporters. Western countries worry that his participation inwards politics could “destabilize” the country. However, majority disenfranchisement grips Haiti, which has gone from threescore pct voter participation when Aristide was running for role to at well-nigh xx pct now.
Aristide’s major achievements inwards role include greatly increased access to wellness attention as well as pedagogy for the full general population, increasing adult literacy from 35 pct to 55 percent, improving human rights, doubling the minimum wage, instituting reason reform, assistance to small-scale farmers, establishing a nutrient distribution network for the poor, edifice low-cost housing as well as attempting to cut back regime corruption.
July xx – Thomas Friedman
Journalist
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Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman writes for The New York Times amongst extensive grounding on unusual affairs, global trade, the Middle East as well as environmental issues. Lofty materials for a guy who originally wanted to live a professional person golfer as well as caddied for Chi Chi Rodriquez at the 1970 U.S. Open.
Dreams fade, others select their place, as well as Friedman graduated from Brandeis amongst a score inwards Mediterranean studies, therefore attended Oxford equally a Marshall Scholar, leaving amongst an M. Phil. inwards Middle Eastern studies. Following, his career inwards journalism started inwards London as well as took him to Lebanon, Jerusalem as well as all over the world. Among his many awards is the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his “clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, inwards commenting on the worldwide behaviour on of the terrorist threat.”
Interestingly, Friedman doesn’t run into that threat coming from immigrants. He writes: "It is pure idiocy that Congress volition non opened upwards our borders – equally broad equally possible – to attract as well as proceed the world's first-round intellectual draft choices inwards an historic menses when everyone increasingly has the same project design tools as well as the cardinal differentiator is human talent."
Source: Wikipedia
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