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Zhang Jike (simplified Chinese: 张继科; traditional Chinese: 張繼科; born 16 February 1988 in Qingdao) is a Chinese table tennis player. He became the world champion in 2011 and 2013. In 2012 he won the Olympic Games. Zhang is the fourth man in history to win the Grand Slam. Career. In 2006 Zhang Jike came into the National Team. After two years he become the Chinese Master in the Singles. His first World Championship that he played, was 2011 in Rotterdam. Zhang came into the final and beat Wang Hao with which he became World Champion in singles. In the same year he won the World Cup, where his opponent was Wang Hao again. He is the third player in history after Jan-Ove Waldner and Jorgen Persson, who won these important titles in one year. In 2012 Zhang Jike was nominated for the Olympic Games in London. He competed in singles as well as team competitions, where he won gold in both. From June to December 2012 he was the number 1 in the world, because he won the Olympic Games in the singles.  In the final at the World Championships 2013 Zhang played against Wang Hao and defended his title after defeating him. In 2014 he won the World Cup for second time. His final-opponent was Ma Long. At the WTTC 2015 he won bronze in the singles and gold in the doubles with Xu Xin. In the semifinals in the singles category he lost to Fang Bo. During this year he lost unusually often against non-Chinese players. Nevertheless, he was nominated for the Olympic Games 2016. Here he won the silver medal in singles and with the team the gold medal. At the Asian Cup in the same year he lost to Xu Xin the final at the singles category. In the Chinese Superleague 2016 he didn't play. In 2017 he had to stop because of a fever in the second round. At the World Championships he came to Round 32 only. At the Asian Championships in the same year he came into the semifinals and won with the team the gold medal. At the China Open he lost at the Round of 32. And didn't play the year anymore. That's why in 2018 he was only ranked 78th, the lowest since 2008.
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi is an American-Japanese animated TV show created by Sam Register that premiered on November 17, 2004 and ended on June 28th, 2006 on Cartoon Network. Characters. The show is loosely based on Puffy AmiYumi, with cartoon versions of them as the main characters. Ami was voiced by Janice Kawaye and Yumi was voiced by Grey DeLisle.
The government of Russia interfered with the 2016 United States presidential election to harm Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, cause political disagreements among American people, and help the campaigns of Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein. On October 7, 2016, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that the United States Intelligence Community was sure that the Russian government hacked into e-mail servers with the intention of interfering with the election.&lt;ref name="DHS_10/7/2016"&gt;&lt;/ref&gt; The ODNI's January 6, 2017 report said the Russian military intelligence service (GRU) had hacked into the servers of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the personal Google email account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and sent the files to WikiLeaks. In January 2017, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper said that Russia had also interfered in the elections by creating fake news that was promoted on social media.
Burton J. Smith (March 21, 1941 – April 3, 2018) was an American computer architect. He was a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. Smith co-founded Tera Computer Company and from 1988 until 2005 he served as its chief scientist and a member of the board of directors. He was also the company's chairman from 1988 until 1999. Smith died on April 3, 2018 at a hospital in Burien, Washington of complications from heart disease at the age of 77.
Andres Ammas (25 February 1962 – 4 April 2018) was an Estonian politician. He represented the Estonian Free Party in the Riigikogu. He was elected with 1,859 votes in the 2015 election. He was born in Tartu. Ammas died on 4 April 2018 of a heart attack in Tallinn at the age of 56.
Cecil Percival Taylor (March 25, 1929 – April 5, 2018) was an American pianist and poet. Taylor was known as having been one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized as energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds. His piano technique has been likened to percussion, for example described as "eighty-eight tuned drums" (referring to the number of keys on a standard piano). Taylor died at his Brooklyn, New York home on April 5, 2018 at the age of 89.
Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin (18 October 1940 – 6 April 2018) was a French pop singer. He was born in Brou-sur-Chantereine, Seine-et-Marne. Career. He became famous in the early 1970s. Early in his career, many of Higelin's songs were blacklisted from French radio because of his controversial left wing political beliefs, and his association with socialist groups. He began attracting popular attention through his live concerts, typically held in smaller venues, and released his first solo album, in 1971. Death. Higelin died on 6 April 2018 in Paris of colorectal cancer at the age of 77.
Invasion of Privacy is the debut studio album by the American rapper Cardi B. It was released on April 5, 2018, by Atlantic Records. Five singles have been released from the album: "Bodak Yellow", "Bartier Cardi"," Be Careful","I Like It" and "Ring". Two of the Singles(Bodak Yellow and I Like It) reached number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100.
"Don't Forget About Us" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey. It is the third single from her tenth studio album, "The Emancipation of Mimi" (2005), appearing on the Ultra Platinum Edition of the album. It was released on December 13, 2005. The song became her 17th number-one single on the "Billboard" Hot 100, then tying her with Elvis Presley as having the most US number-ones by a soloist. It entered at number 81, was number one for two weeks, and spent a total of 21 weeks on the chart. It reached number 50 on the Year-End Hot 100 of 2006. Critics compared the song to her previous single, "We Belong Together". Both songs feature a slow beat and instruments from a piano and a drum machine.
Larry Sharpe (born July 12, 1968) is an American business consultant, entrepreneur, and political activist. He was born in Manhattan. He was a candidate for the Libertarian Party nomination for Vice President of the United States in 2016. He is founder and Managing Director at NeoSage. On July 12, 2017, he announced his candidacy for Governor of New York for the 2018 election. On April 13, 2020 it was announced that Sharpe would again seek the Libertarian Party's nomination for Vice President in the 2020 election, as the running mate of 2012 Libertarian vice-presidential nominee Judge Jim Gray.
Kmele Foster (born October 31, 1980) is an American telecommunications entrepreneur and political commentator.  Foster is co-founder and Vice President of the telecommunications consultancy TelcoIQ and is currently a co-host of the libertarian podcast "The Fifth Column".
Etelka Keserű (née "Bérci"; 26 August 1925 – 1 April 2018) was a Hungarian economist and politician. He served as Minister of Light Industry between 1971 and 1980. Keserű died in Budapest on 1 April 2018 of cardiopulmonary arrest at the age of 92.
Louis Ray Henson (January 10, 1932 – July 25, 2020) was an American college basketball coach. He was born in Okay, Oklahoma. He retired as the all-time leader in victories at the University of Illinois with 423 victories and New Mexico State with 289 victories. Overall Henson won 779 games. Henson is also one of only four NCAA coaches to have amassed at least 200 total wins at two institutions. In 2005-2006, Henson was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He was treated with chemotherapy, but the cancer returned in 2007. In 2014, Henson was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer. In 2014, he briefly came out of retirement to support the University of Illinois. On February 17, 2015, Henson was selected as a member of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. Henson died from cancer in Champaign, Illinois on July 25, 2020 at the age of 88.
Soon-Tek Oh (, "Oh Sun-taek" – also spelled as Soon-Taek Oh or Soon-Taik Oh or Soon-Teck Oh; June 29, 1932 – April 4, 2018) was a South Korean-American actor and playwright. He was born in Mokpo, South Korea. Oh was best known for the voice of Fa Zhou in Disney's "Mulan" and the direct-to-video sequel "Mulan II". He has starred in many movies, and also acted in television series, including "MacGyver", "M*A*S*H," "Charlie's Angels", "Airwolf", "Magnum, P.I.", "Hawaii Five-O", "Kung-Fu", "Zorro", and "Touched by an Angel". Oh died in Los Angeles, California on April 4, 2018 at the age of 85.
John Joseph Patrick Ryan (December 30, 1920 – January 21, 1998), best known by his stage name, Jack Lord, was an American actor, director and producer. He was known for his starring role as Steve McGarrett in the CBS television program "Hawaii Five-O", which ran from 1968 to 1980. Lord suffered from Alzheimer's disease for at least seven years before his death. He died of congestive heart failure at his home in Honolulu, on January 21, 1998, at age 77.
Fan Zhendong (; born 22 january 1997 in Guangzhou) is a Chinese table tennis player. In 2016 he won the World Cup and become Vice- World Champion in 2017.  Career. In the world rankings Fan appeared for the first time in 2012, when he won alle four titles (Singles, Doubles, Mixed, Team) at the Youth World Championship. Because of good performances in the Chinese Trials, he was even nominated in 2013 for the men's competition at the World Championship. There Fan came to the Round of 32, where he lost to Zhang Jike. In the same year he won with the team the Asian Championship. In 2014, Fan Zhendong with his team won the WTTC. At the Asian Cup he lost to Chen Chien-An. At the World Championship in 2015 he came to the semifinals, where he lost to Ma Long, but still won bronze. At the Asian championships in the same year he won all four titles. At the World Cup he became Vice- World Cup champion, because he lost in the final against Ma Long. In the World Cup in 2016 he won in the final against Xu Xin. Fan with his team won the World Championships again. At the China Open in June 2017 he boykotts and had to pay a fine of 20,000 Dollars. At the Grand Finals he won gold in the singles category. After winning the Qatar Open in 2018 it's the first time that he's world number one. With the Chinese team he won the WTTTC, too.
The eleventh season of SpongeBob SquarePants started on July 27, 2017. It started with the episodes "Spot Returns" and "The Check-Up". It ended on November 25, 2018 with the episode "Goons on the Moon." Stephen Hillenburg, the show's creator, was the executive producer. Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller were the showrunners. Episodes. &lt;onlyinclude&gt; &lt;/onlyinclude&gt; DVD release. The DVD boxset for season eleven was released by Paramount Home Entertainment and Nickelodeon in the United States and Canada on March 31, 2020. The DVD release features bonus materials, including the animated short "Plankton's Color Nullifier".
The 5th century BC started the first day of 500 BC and ended the last day of 401 BC. The ancient Greeks became powerful in this time and won the Greco-Persian wars. Events. Sophocles is born.
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kurlovich (, English Alternate: "Alexandre Kurlovich"; 28 July 1961 – 6 April 2018) was a Belarusian weightlifter. He trained at Armed Forces sports society in Grodno. He was born in Grodno, Belarus. In 2006, he was elected member of the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame. He was caught in 1984 entering Canada with $10,000 worth of anabolic steroids that he wanted to sell to fellow weightlifters. Kurlovich died on 6 April 2018 at the age of 56.
Xu Xin (; born 8 January 1990) is a Chinese table tennis player. He won the mixed gold medal at the World Championships in 2015. In 2013 and in 2017 he won bronze in the singles at the World Championships too.  Career. In 2007, Xu played in his first World Championships, where he came to the round of 16 in the doubles. The next years he played international activ and came under the Top 10 in the world. In 2010 he took part in the world-team Championships for the first time, where he won with the team gold. In 2011, he won gold in doubles and came to round of 16 in the Singles category. In 2012 he won gold with the team again. In the same year, he took part in the World Cup, where he finished in 4th place. In January 2013 he finished for the first time world number one. At the World Championships in the same year Xu won bronze in the singles. In the semifinals he lost to Zhang Jike. Also he won the world cup over Vladimir Samsonov in the final. With the team he won the World Championships and the Asian Games. From March 2014 to March 2015 he was for the second time number one in the world. At the World Championships in 2015, he took part in three competitions. In the Singles he lost in the Round of 16 to Fang Bo. In the Mixed and Doubles category he won gold. In 2016, Xu won for the fourth time the world Championships in the team event. At the Olympic Games he didn not play in the singles but won with the team gold. At the World Cup he lost in the final to Fan Zhendong. In 2017, at the World Championships he came to the semifinals and won gold in the doubles category. At the China Open 2017 he boycotted his Round-of-16-match, because the coach was supendend. In 2018 Xu Xin won with the team gold at the World Championships.
Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist. He played in a Latin jazz band for a short time before joining the band of avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor. With 1972's "Attica Blues" and "The Cry of My People", he spoke out for civil rights; the former album was a response to the Attica Prison riots. Shepp was also a professor of African-American Studies at SUNY in Buffalo, New York.
Pharoah Sanders (born Farrell Sanders; October 13, 1940 – September 24, 2022)  was an American jazz saxophonist. Saxophonist Ornette Coleman once called him as "probably the best tenor player in the world." In 1968 he participated in Michael Mantler and Carla Bley's Jazz Composer's Orchestra Association album "The Jazz Composer's Orchestra", featuring Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Larry Coryell and Gato Barbieri. Sanders died on September 24, 2022, at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 81.
Braiko Petr (September 9, 1918 – April 7, 2018) was a Soviet soldier. He served during the Second World War. He gained the status of Hero of the Soviet Union. He took part in seven raids by the guerrilla brigade of Sydir Kovpak. He was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union. Braiko died on April 7, 2018 in Moscow of complications from bronchopneumonia at the age of 99.
Pavol Paška (23 February 1958 – 6 April 2018) was a Slovak politician. He served as Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2012 to 2014. He was a member of the Direction - Social Democracy (Smer-SD) party. Paška was a member of Prague Society for International Cooperation Paška died of cardiac arrest on 6 April 2018 in Košice, Slovakia at the age of 60.
Nancy Grace Roman (May 16, 1925 – December 25, 2018) was an American astronomer. She was one of the first female executives at NASA. She was known to many as the "Mother of Hubble" for her role in planning the Hubble Space Telescope. Roman died on December 25, 2018 in Washington, D.C. from a long-illness at the age of 93.
Margaret Heafield Hamilton, (born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. It developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. On November 22, 2016, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama for her work leading the development of on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Moon missions.
Daniel Chavarria (23 November 1933 – 6 April 2018) was a Uruguayan revolutionary, writer and translator. Chavarria’s books are strongly critical of the violence in Fascism. Chavarria’s life and writings clearly show his communist and revolutionary background. He is a well known supporter of the Cuban Revolution. In 2010, Chavarria won the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national prize for literature and more important award of its type in Cuba. Chavarria died on 6 April 2018 in Havana of kidney failure at the age of 84.
A Quiet Place is a 2018 American horror thriller science fiction movie directed by John Krasinski, who also stars alongside Emily Blunt. The screenplay was written by Krasinski, Bryan Woods, and Scott Beck. It was produced by Michael Bay. It is based on a story by Woods and Beck. It is about a family of four in a small New York state town who must live life in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.  "A Quiet Place" premiered at South by Southwest on March 9, 2018 and was released in the United States on April 6, 2018, by Paramount Pictures. It received very well reviews from critics, who called it a "smart, wickedly frightening good time."
The Beagle 2 was a British Mars lander that was carried to Mars by the European Space Agency's 2003 "Mars Express" mission. It was an astrobiology mission that was designed to look for past life on the shallow surface of Mars. The Beagle 2 was conceived by a group of British academics. It was led by Professor Colin Pillinger of the Open University.  The spacecraft successfully arrived in orbit round Mars on 19 December 2003. It was going to land on the surface of Mars on 25 December. There was no contact at the expected time of landing. ESA declared that the mission was lost in February 2004, after several attempts to contact the spacecraft were unsuccessful. "Beagle 2" fate remained a mystery until January 2015. Then it was found on the surface of Mars by a series of images from NASA's "Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter" HiRISE camera. The images suggest that two of the spacecraft's four solar panels failed to deploy, blocking the spacecraft's communications antenna. The "Beagle 2" was named after , the ship used by Charles Darwin.
Gill Sans is a sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill. It was offered by the British branch of Monotype from 1928 onwards. Gill Sans is based on Edward Johnston's 1916 "Underground Alphabet", the corporate font of London Underground. As a young artist Gill had assisted Johnston in its early development stages. In the 1920s, Gill had become a prominent stonemason, artist and creator of lettering. He had begun to working on typeface designs. Gill was commissioned to develop his alphabet into a full metal type family by his friend Stanley Morison. Morison was a Monotype executive and a historian of printing. Morison hoped the new font would compete against a wave of German sans-serif families such as Futura. Gill Sans was released in 1928 by Monotype. Gill's aim was to blend the influences of Johnston, classic serif typefaces and Roman inscriptions suchas on Trajan's Column. This, he hoped, would create a design that looked both cleanly modern and classical at the same time.
Offa bank Robbery attack was a robbery which led to the death of 33 people. The robbery was carried out in four commercial banks on April 4, 2018 at Offa local government area of Kwara State, Nigeria. According to the Commissioner of Police, Kwara State Command, 9 police officers were killed in the attack and the robbery lasted for one hour. The armed robbers used dynamite in the attack. The leader of the robbery gang is Ayoade Akinnibosun. He is the chairman of Liberation Youth Movement, Kwara State. He studied Guidance and Counselling at Ekiti State University. According to Vanguard Newspaper, he confessed that he works for Bukola Saraki, the president of the Senate of Nigeria and Ahmed Abdulfatai, the governor of Kwara State.
Kwara State is one of the 36 states of Nigeria. It's located in north-central part of Nigeria and the state capital is Ilorin. People who live in Kwara state over the years come from different ethnic groups; most of them are Yorubas but there are also people from the minority ethnic group who are known as Nupe people who live in Kwara state. The Nupes live in the northeast. Other minority groups that live in Kwara state are the Baribas (Baatonu) and Busas (Bokobaru) who live in the west, and a small number of Fulanis who live in Ilorin. The Fulanis are herdsmen who rear cows and cattles.
Robert James LaFortune (January 24, 1927 – March 27, 2024) was an American Republican politician and engineer. LaFortune was mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma from 1970 to 1978. He also helped initiate the start of the Indian Nations Council of Governments (INCOG).  LaFortune left private business to serve three terms as Tulsa's commissioner of streets and public property from 1964 to 1970. LaFortune died in Tulsa on March 27, 2024, at the age of 97.
Ángel Peralta Pineda, known as Centauro de las Marismas (18 March 1926 – 7 April 2018), was a Spanish rejoneador (bullfighter) and actor. In 1954 he filmed alongside the rejoneador Bernardino Landete in scenes from the movie "La Princesa de Éboli" ("That Lady") by Terence Young and "Cabriola" in 1960, by Mel Ferrer. He continued acting in the 1980s, fighting a few more years of seventy corridas. He was awarded with the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts in 2013 by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. Peralta died of a respiratory failure on his farm in La Puebla del Río in Seville, Spain at the age of 92.
Michael Goolaerts (24 July 1994 – 8 April 2018) was a Belgian cyclist. He rode for Vérandas Willems–Crelan. He was born in Lier.  Goolaerts signed his first professional contract with Lotto–Soudal as a stagiaire, starting on 1 August 2016, before signing with UCI Professional Continental team Vérandas Willems–Crelan for the 2017 season. He made his debut in the Étoile de Bessèges, During the 2018 Paris–Roubaix, Goolaerts suffered cardiac arrest and was flown to a hospital in Lille, where he died hours later at the age of 23.
Juraj Herz (4 September 1934 – 8 April 2018) was a Slovak movie director, actor, and screenwriter. He has directed for both movies and television. He was known for his 1971 movie "Petrolejové lampy" and for his 1976 movie "Den pro mou lásku". Herz died on 8 April 2018 of respiratory failure in Prague at the age of 83.
Charles John Thomas McCann (September 2, 1934 – April 8, 2018) was an American actor and television personality. He was known for his roles in "Far Out Space Nuts", "DuckTales", and "". McCann died in Los Angeles, California of congestive heart failure on April 8, 2018 at the age of 83.
Ana Ofelia Murguía (8 December 1933 – 31 December 2023) was a Mexican actress. She was born in Mexico City. Her early well known roles were in "The Queen of the Night" (1994) as Doña Victoria and as Doña Rosa in "Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead" (1995). Her career began in 1968. In recent years, she is best known for voicing Mama Coco in the 2017 Disney-Pixar animated movie "Coco". Vega died of natural causes in Mexico City on December 31, 2023, at the age of 90.
Vanessa Marshall Stiller (born October 19, 1969) is an American actress, singer and model. She is most active in voice-over roles for animated series, movies and video games. by notable in voice over shows like, "Powerpuff Girls", "Dexter's Laboratory", "The Fairly OddParents" as additional voices, and "Nutri Ventures". In 2021, she was the voice of Nerdluck Blanko in "". She is the daughter of actress Joan Van Ark and reporter John Marshall. She began voice-over work after being discovered at a one-woman show.