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# Billy Irwin (boxer)

William Irwin (born May 20, 1968, Niagara Falls, Ontario, nicknamed "Billy the Kid", is a retired Canadian amateur lightweight and professional light/light welter/welterweight boxer of the 1990s and 2000s who as an amateur won a bronze medal in the Boxing at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba, losing to eventual silver medal winner Patrice Brooks of the United States, represented Canada at the 1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Sydney, Australia losing to Julien Lorcy of France. He represented Canada at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona but was stopped in the second round of the lightweight division (– 60 kg) by Ronald Chavez of the Philippines.
As a professional, he won the Canadian Professional Boxing Council, lightweight title, Canada lightweight title, International Boxing Organization (IBO) lightweight title, World Boxing Council (WBC) Continental Americas lightweight title, and Commonwealth lightweight title, and was a challenger for the International Boxing Federation (IBF) lightweight title against Paul Spadafora, and World Boxing Association (WBA) World lightweight title against Juan Díaz, his professional fighting weight varied from 133+1⁄2 lb (60.6 kg; 9 st 7.5 lb), i.e. lightweight to 142 lb (64.4 kg; 10 st 2.0 lb), i.e. welterweight.
Irwin's last stand was in 2005, up against the undefeated World Champion Juan Diaz. After losing to Diaz, Irwin walked away in class retiring from a very respectable pro boxing career that spanned over 12 years. He was a four time Canadian National Champion, a Bronze Medalist at the Pan-American Games, with an amateur record of 130-20-0 and with an impressive professional boxing record of 44 (31)–5-0.
He now trains amateurs, upcoming international fighters and professional boxers in Niagara Falls, Ontario. One of his fighters won the 2012 Canadian Champion Best Youth Boxer Award.
# Billy Martin (curler)

William D. Martin (born c. 1933) is a Canadian former curler. He played third on the 1973 Brier Champion team (skipped by Harvey Mazinke), representing Saskatchewan. They later went on to win second place at the World Championships of that year.
# Borys Chambul

Borys Chambul (born February 17, 1953) is a retired discus thrower, who represented Canada at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal in the men's discus throw event at the 1978 Commonwealth Games.
Competing for the Washington Huskies track and field team, Chambul won the discus throw at the 1976 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
# Brian Collyer

Brian Collyer (born 12 July 1961) is a Canadian water polo player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
# Brian Johnson (ice hockey)

Brian Johnson (born April 1, 1960 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey right winger who played one season in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings.
Johnson spent four seasons in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League with the Verdun/Sorel Éperviers and the Sherbrooke Beavers before signing with the Detroit Red Wings in 1980. He had spells in the American Hockey League with the Adirondack Red Wings and the Central Hockey League with the Dallas Black Hawks before making his debut for Detroit during the 1983-84 NHL season, playing a total of three regular season games, going pointless with five penalty minutes. After spells with the Carolina Thunderbirds and the Indianapolis Checkers, Johnson retired in 1986.
On April 16, 2012, Brian Johnson was sentenced to 4 years in prison for trafficking cocaine in Saint John, New Brunswick.

## Career statistics

| | | | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Playoffs | Playoffs | Playoffs | Playoffs | Playoffs |
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM |
| 1977–78 | Verdun Eperviers | QMJHL | 50 | 11 | 14 | 25 | 125 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978–79 | Verdun Eperviers | QMJHL | 71 | 32 | 36 | 68 | 192 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 61 |
| 1979–80 | Verdun/Sorel Eperviers | QMJHL | 21 | 8 | 27 | 35 | 68 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1979–80 | Sherbrooke Castors | QMJHL | 49 | 32 | 52 | 84 | 144 | 15 | 11 | 15 | 26 | 66 |
| 1980–81 | Adirondack Red Wings | AHL | 65 | 10 | 21 | 31 | 193 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 |
| 1981–82 | Dallas Black Hawks | CHL | 79 | 18 | 36 | 54 | 223 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 129 |
| 1982–83 | Adirondack Red Wings | AHL | 67 | 6 | 16 | 22 | 250 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 15 |
| 1983–84 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1983–84 | Adirondack Red Wings | AHL | 58 | 4 | 27 | 31 | 233 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| 1985–86 | Carolina Thunderbirds | ACHL | 22 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 167 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1985–86 | Indianapolis Checkers | IHL | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 57 | — | — | — | — | — |
| NHL totals | NHL totals | NHL totals | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — |
| AHL totals | AHL totals | AHL totals | 190 | 20 | 64 | 84 | 676 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 88 |
# Brian Morrison (athlete)

Brian Morrison (born 25 August 1968) is a Canadian sprinter. He competed in the men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
# Brian Vachon

Brian Vachon (born 10 August 1951) is a Canadian bobsledder. He competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics and the 1980 Winter Olympics.
# Bruce Smith (luger)

Bruce Smith (born 18 September 1958) is a Canadian luger. He competed in the men's singles event at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
# Cal Langford

Cleve "Cal" Langford (born March 18, 1959) is a Canadian bobsledder who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of fourth in the four-man event at Albertville in 1992. Langford was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
# Campbell Palmer

Campbell Roger "Buddy" Palmer (born 29 April 1936) is a Canadian boxer. He competed in the men's lightweight event at the 1964 Summer Olympics. At the 1964 Summer Olympics, he defeated Gabriel Achy Assi of the Ivory Coast, before losing to Stoyan Pilichev of Bulgaria. Prior to competing at the Olympics, he competed in Haney, British Columbia and 100 Mile House, British Columbia.
# Carl Beaumier

Carl Beaumier (born August 23, 1966) is a Canadian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 1000 m event.
# Charlie Falzon

Charlie Falzon is a Canadian retired soccer player who spent time in the North American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League. He also earned nine caps with the Canadian national soccer team between 1983 and 1989. Charlie is currently an advanced care paramedic working for Toronto EMS.

## Professional

A midfielder, Falzon played the last 3 seasons of the NASL before the league's demise - the 1982 with the Montreal Manic and 1983 and '84 with the Toronto Blizzard. In September 1985, Falzon signed as a free agent with the Pittsburgh Spirit of the original Major Indoor Soccer League. In 1986, he moved to the St. Louis Steamers. In December 1987, the Steamers traded Falzon to the Tacoma Stars in exchange for Godfrey Ingram and cash. Falzon also played for the North York Rockets and Toronto Blizzard in the Canadian Soccer League.

## National team

Falzon earned nine caps with the Canadian national soccer team. He played three times in 1983 and another three gamed in 1984. After two games in 1988, he finished his career with a single game against Belgium in 1989. He scored no goals with the national team.

## Coach

Falzon has been involved with the Ontario Soccer Association, being an assistant coach of the OSA's U-14 boys team. Falzon is also involved as a coach with a girls Select soccer team at the North Mississauga Soccer Club.
# Chris Ius

Chris Ius (born January 14, 1954, in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian boxer, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1972. In both tournaments he was eliminated in the third round.

## Boxing Club

Chris was one of the many outstanding boxers that were part of the North West Eagles Boxing Club in North Vancouver. His primary coach was his uncle Elio Ius. Another key boxer at the club during the Ius boxing journey in the Seventies was Les Hamilton and Ian Douglas. Others were Dan Wright and David Ius.

## Canadian Championships

Chris Ius was a four-time senior national boxing champion in 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1976. During this six-year period some of the other top ranked champions were Carmen Rinke, Chris Clarke, Cleveland Denny, Ian Clyde, Marv Arneson and Sidney McKnight.

## 1972 Olympic results

Below is the record of Chris Ius, a flyweight boxer who competed for Canada at the 1972 Munich Olympics:
* Round of 64: bye
* Round of 32: defeated Ali Ouabbou (Morocco) by decision, 3-2
* Round of 16: Lost to Georgi Kostadinov (Bulgaria) by decision, 0-5

## 1976 Olympics

Chris Ius of Canada competed as a bantamweight at the 1976 Olympic boxing tournament in Montreal. Here are his results:
* Round of 64: bye
* Round of 32: defeated Mohamed Ayele (Ethiopia) by walkover
* Round of 16: lost to Weerachart Saturngrun (Thailand) by decision, 0-5
# Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi

Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi (Arabic: محمد صديق المنشاوي‎; 20 January 1920 – 20 June 1969), known simply as Al-Minshawi, was an Egyptian Quranic reciter and Hafiz. Al-Minshawi was born into a Muslim Egyptian famous family. His grandfather, father, and brother were also famous Qurra. Nicknamed Al-Saut Al-Baki (Arabic: الصوت الباكي lit. 'The Weeping Voice'), he is part of a quadrumvirate, along with Abdul Basit, Mustafa Ismail, and Al-Hussary, which are considered to be the most important and famous Qurra of modern times to have an outsized impact on the Islamic World.

## History

Having been significantly influenced by his father, Al-Minshawi was also a protégé of Muhammad Rifat, Muhammad Salamah, famous reciters of the 20th century. He studied the rules of recitation under Ibrahim As-Su'oodi at a young age. He committed Qur'an to memory when he was 8 years old. He traveled to many countries outside of his homeland, including Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Palestine (Al-Aqsa), Saudi Arabia, and Syria.
Al-Minshawi also participated in recorded recitations with the two other reciters: Kamel al-Bahtimi and Fouad al-Aroussi. He helped children with the recitation of Quran.

## Personal life

Al-Minshawi married two times, he had three boys and one girl with the first wife in addition to five boys and four girls with the second wife, but in 1968, his second wife died while on a pilgrimage.
Al-Minshawi belongs to a family of traditional Huffaz, Calligraphers, and Qaris; and like him, his father, Seddik Al Minshawy, and his brother, Mahmoud Al Minshawy, were professional Qurra, too. His son Mushaf Mulaim had also become a professional reciter teaching kids in the style of his father. He died on June 20, 1969, due to being afflicted by esophageal varices for a long period of his life.

## Legacy

Al Minshawi's recitations continue to be amongst the well known due to his impeccable Tajweed and style. He was the author of many books on various aspects of the Quran, and was also involved in the calligraphic printing of the Quranic text and “World of Islam festival”. His status as a Qari was lofty: He held the title Shaykh al-Maqâri, and his opinions were frequently solicited and quoted by the media. One can count a generation of younger reciters among his imitators. Al Minshawi also recited in the presence of many significant figures such as the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in Syria's Umayyad Mosque in 1959. Abdel Nasser had also invited Sheikh al Minshawi to recite at the funeral of his father's death in Alexandria, 1968.
# Christian Marcoux

Christian Marcoux (born 4 April 1969) is a Canadian freestyle skier. He competed in the men's moguls event at the 1992 Winter Olympics.
# Cliff Nuttall

Cliff Nuttall (born 31 December 1940) is a Canadian hurdler. He competed in the men's 110 metres hurdles at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
# Dan Bertoia

Daniel Bertoia (born April 16, 1969) is a Canadian former athlete who competed in middle-distance running.
Bertoia is the son of 1963 Pan American Games 800 m champion and 1964 Olympian Don Bertoia, who began coaching him in grade eight. He earned NAIA All-American honours while attending Simon Fraser University and set a long-standing Clan record in the 1,500 m of 3:41.5.
Trained at the Kelowna Track and Field Club, Bertoia specialised in 800 m and 1,500 m races. He became Canada's first athletics medalist at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, when he claimed a bronze medal in the 1,500 m, having led the race in the final lap until being passed by José Valente and Bill Burke. His time of 3:43.71 was 11 seconds faster than his father's bronze medal-winning run in the same event at the 1963 Pan American Games.
Bertoia was inducted into the Central Okanagan Sports Hall of Fame in 2011.
# John Van Nostrand

John Van Nostrand (July 17, 1961 – April 15, 1984) was a professional tennis player from the United States. His sister Molly Van Nostrand also played tennis professionally. Both were coached by their father, Kingdon Van Nostrand.

## Career

Van Nostrand was a dual NCAA All-American for Pepperdine University, in 1982 and 1983.
He appeared in the main draw of one Grand Slam during his career, the 1983 Australian Open, in the men's doubles, but never got to play a point, as he and partner Jim Gurfein defaulted the match.
The American was a quarter-finalist at the 1983 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, held in Newport, Rhode Island. He beat world number 46 Mike De Palmer in the opening round and Mike Leach in the second round.
In the first tournament of the 1984 Grand Prix season, at Auckland, Van Nostrand and partner Brian Levine were doubles champions. The pair upset top seeds Broderick Dyke and Rod Frawley in the quarter-finals.
Three months later, Van Nostrand was killed in a car accident, along with fellow player Joe Heldman. They had been traveling from Mexico City to the San Luis Potosí Challenger tournament. On a mountainous road near San Juan del Río, their car went off a curve and fell 660 feet down the mountain.

## Grand Prix career finals
### Doubles: 1 (1–0)

| Result | W-L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Jan 1984 | Auckland, New Zealand | Hard | Brian Levine | Brad Drewett Chip Hooper | 7–5, 6–2 |

## Challenger titles
### Doubles: (1)

| No. | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| 1. | 1984 | Perth, Australia | Grass | Broderick Dyke | Peter Carter Mark Hartnett | 6–2, 6–3 |
# Richard Wurster

Richard Wurster (born August 27, 1942) is an American speed skater. He competed in the men's 1500 metres event at the 1968 Winter Olympics.
# Freddie Banks

Freddie Banks (born March 6, 1965) is an American former collegiate and professional basketball player. Banks attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and is a member of the UNLV Athletics Hall of Fame. Banks was the first pick of the second round (#24 overall) of the 1987 NBA draft by the Detroit Pistons.

## Early life

Banks attended Valley High School in Las Vegas, where he was a 1983 McDonald's All-American

## College career

Banks chose to stay home to attend and play collegiate basketball at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas under Hall of Fame Coach Jerry Tarkanian. Banks played for UNLV from 1983 to 1987 and helped lead the Rebels to the 1987 Final Four.
As a Senior in 1986–1987 Banks averaged 19.5 points per game, alongside teammates Armen Gilliam and Gerald Paddio in leading the UNLV Runnin' Rebels to a 37–2 record and the 1987 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament Final 4. Banks scored 38 points and hit 10 3-point shots in his final game, a 97–93 loss to the eventual Champion Indiana Hoosiers in the semi-final game. “He was the most clutch shooter I ever coached,” UNLV Coach Jerry Tarkanian said. Overall, Banks averaged 13.7 points, 3.5 assists and 2.2 rebounds in his 144-game UNLV career, making 42% of his 3-point shots and scoring 2,007 career points.

## Professional career

A 6' 2" Guard, Banks was selected 23rd overall by the Detroit Pistons in the 1987 NBA draft. Banks then played in the Continental Basketball Association for the Mississippi Jets and San Jose Jammers, in the World Basketball League (6'5" and under) for the Las Vegas Silver Streaks and in Greece.

## Personal

As of 2023, Banks was Head Boys' Basketball Coach at Canyon Springs High School, in Las Vegas. Banks has a wife and seven children.
At his UNLV Hall of Fame induction, Banks said: "It really is an honor. I feel really blessed to be a hometown kid that got to play for coach Tarkanian and win so many games here. For those of you who watched me during my fours at UNLV, just remember, Freddie Banks is still behind that three-point line."

## Honors

Banks was inducted into the UNLV Athletics Hall of Fame on February 7, 2005.
In 2010, Banks was also inducted into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame.
On Saturday, November 27, 2021, Banks had his number 13 jersey retired during halftime of UNLV's game against UCLA.
# Kaplan Khuako

Kaplan Zaurbechevich Khuako (Russian: Каплан Заурбечевич Хуако; born 17 April 1977) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is the general director for FC Druzhba Maykop.

## Club career

He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2007 for PFC Spartak Nalchik.

## Personal life

His sons Tagir Khuako and Temir Khuako are now professional footballers.
# Laurence Piturro

Laurance "Larry" Piturro (born October 31, 1969, in Yonkers, New York) is a retired American soccer defender and coach. He spent eight years with the Long Island Rough Riders and three with the Westchester Flames. He was also the head coach of the Concordia College, Bronxville women's soccer team from 2000 to 2007.

## Player

Piturro began his collegiate career at Westchester Community College where he was a 1988 Second Team JUCO All American soccer player. He then transferred to Southern Connecticut State University, playing on the men's soccer team in 1989 and 1990. In 1993 and 1994, he played for the Connecticut Wolves. In 1995, he played twenty regular season games with the Long Island Rough Riders as they won the USISL championship. In February 1996, the Columbus Crew selected Piturro in the 14th round (131st overall) of the 1996 MLS Inaugural Player Draft but was not signed by the team. He remained with Long Island until 2001 when it was in the USL A-League. That spring, he played for the Tampa Bay Mutiny in pre-season exhibition games. In 2002, he moved to the Westchester Flames. In 2005, he returned to the Rough Riders for one more season before retiring.

## Coach

On November 2, 1998, Concordia College, Bronxville hired Piturro as an assistant coach for the women's soccer team. He became head coach in August 2000.
# Wolfgang Partsch

Wolfgang Partsch (born August 29, 1945) is an Austrian academic and business leader that is a pioneer in the domain of supply chain management (SCM). As an author of various standard works he gained wide international recognition.

## Education

Wolfgang Partsch was awarded PhD in physics in 1970 by the University of Vienna with a thesis on the exploration of natural resources.

## Career

In 1979, the German monthly business magazine “Manager Magazin” published an article where Partsch described a supply chain concept explaining that efficiency could be achieved considering the interdependency among all areas of a company. Subsequently, he joined Booz Allen & Hamilton and was part of the team that, led by Keith Oliver, developed the first official Supply Chain concept and coined the term. By that time, Partsch was the leading manager in a Supply Chain implementation project for Landis+Gyr in Switzerland. The results of this project were published in Germany's leading economic magazine “WirtschaftsWoche", being the first time that an implemented project case under the term “Supply Chain Management” appeared in print in a newspaper as has been recognized by the CSCMP.
In 1983 he founded the first company worldwide specialized in SCM. In the following years he has held various consulting roles for international companies like Volkswagen, Aventis, Nestle and Coca-Cola.
During the 80s and 90s he became a person of reference in the Supply Chain Management arena mainly in German speaking countries. From 1995 to 1999 he led the Supply Chain Consulting practice of Ernst & Young as Chairman of the Global Supply Chain Network.
Since 2000 he has been active as a senior executive and trusted advisor for the boards of global industrial and trading companies. His experience is also used by some Supply Chain Consulting firms including mSE Solutions.
# Wild Horse Rodeo

Wild Horse Rodeo is a 1937 American Western film directed by George Sherman and starring Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, and Max Terhune. Written by Oliver Drake and Betty Burbridge, based on a story by Drake and Gilbert Wright, the film is about a champion rodeo rider who returns to his home town in search of a legendary wild horse called Cyclone. The film is part of the Three Mesquiteers series of B-movies produced by Republic Pictures. Wild Horse Rodeo was the first film directed by George Sherman, who later directed numerous Western films for Republic, Columbia Pictures, and Universal Pictures.

## Cast

* Robert Livingston as Stony Brooke
* Ray Corrigan as Tucson Smith
* Max Terhune as Lullaby Joslin
* June Martel as Alice Harkley
* Walter Miller as Colonel Nye
* Edmund Cobb as Hank Bain
* William Gould as Harkley
* Jack Ingram as Jim
* Roy Rogers as Singer (as Dick Weston)
* Henry Isabell as Slim
# John Michael Cross

John Michael Cross (1 February 1859 – 12 April 1934) was a journalist and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

## Biography

Cross was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England to parents Thomas Cross and his wife Elizabeth (née Burnett) and was educated in England. After his arrival in Australia he took up journalism and worked at several newspapers including the Brisbane Telegraph, the Northern Argus in Rockhampton, the Toowoomba Chronicle, the Maryborough Chronicle, and the Gympie Miner. He was also the editor of the Peoples' Newspaper in Rockhampton.
After his time in parliament he continued as a journalist and Hansard reporter in Brisbane. He was a councillor of the Royal Society of St George and a member of the Esoteric Lodge of Masonry.
On the 23 Aug 1884 he married Margaret Bell (died 1905) in Brisbane and together had two sons. He died in Brisbane in 1934 and was buried in the South Brisbane Cemetery.

## Political career

At the 1893 Queensland colonial elections, Cross, for the Labour Party, defeated the sitting member, John Stevenson, for the seat of Clermont. He remained the member for six years, being defeated by Vincent Lesina in 1899.
# 1641 in Catalonia

Events from 1641 in Catalonia.

## Incumbents

* Count of Barcelona – Louis I (from 30 December)
* President of the Generalitat of Catalonia – Pau Claris (until 26 January), Josep Soler (from 26 January)

## Events

* 17 January – The Junta de Braços (council of Estates) of the Principality of Catalonia, led by Pau Claris, accepts the proposal to establish the Catalan Republic under French protection.
* 23 January – In order to gain more military aid from France, the Junta de Braços proclaimed Louis XIII as Count of Barcelona.
* 26 January – Battle of Montjuïc, decisive Franco-Catalan victory over the Spanish armies.
* 30 December – Louis XIII swears the Catalan constitutions, being appointed as Louis I of Catalonia.

### Undated

* Periodical publication of gazettes translated from French to Catalan begin in Catalonia in 1641 and continue into 1642 by several Barcelona printers.