Ramon "Ray" Wilson MBE (17 December 1934 – 15 May 2018) was an English former footballer. He played at left back. He was a member of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup. In 1971, he managed the Bradford City football team. He was born in Shirebrook, Derbyshire.
Wilson lived in Slaithwaite near Huddersfield with his wife Pat. They had two children. In 2004, Wilson was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He died of the disease on 15 May 2018 in Slaithwaite at the age of 83.
Dharmendra
Dharmendra (born Dharam Singh Deol; 8 December 1935) is an Indian movie actor and politician. His starring roles in action movies earned him nicknames such as "Action King" and "He-Man". One of his most known roles was in "Sholay" (1975).
He was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India, representing Bikaner constituency in Rajasthan from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was a member of the Lok Sabha from 2004 through 2009.
In 2012, he was honored India's third highest civilian honour Padma Bhushan by the Government of India.
Nicholas Sand
Nicholas Sand (May 10, 1941 – April 24, 2017) was an American chemist. He was a cult figure known in the psychedelic community for his work as a clandestine chemist from 1966 through 1996 for the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. He was born in New York City.
Sand was part of the League for Spiritual Discovery at the Millbrook estate in New York, has been credited as the "first underground chemist on record to have synthesized DMT" and was known for creating and selling large amounts of LSD.
Sand died in his sleep at his home in California of a suspected heart attack on April 24, 2017 at the age of 75.
Terry Cavanagh
Terence James "Terry" Cavanagh (July 19, 1926 – December 17, 2017) was a Canadian politician, businessman, municipal councilor in Edmonton, Alberta. He served as Mayor of Edmonton from November 14, 1975 through October 19, 1977 and again from October 17, 1988 through October 16, 1989. He was Edmonton's first native-born mayor. He served as an alderman in Edmonton until he retired from politics in 2007.
Cavanagh was born in Edmonton on July 19, 1926, to Scottish immigrants. He played for the Galt Red Wings of the Ontario Hockey Association, where he was a teammate of Gordie Howe during his early years. He died on December 17, 2017 in Edmonton at the age of 91.
The Baseline Move
The Baseline Move may refer to:
Zhanjiang
Zhanjiang (), is a prefecture-level city at the southwestern end of Guangdong province, People's Republic of China, facing Hainan to the south.
Its population was 6,994,832 inhabitants at the 2010 census. 1,611,868 live in the built-up area made of four urban districts: Chikan, Xiashan, Potou and Mazhang. In 2007, the city is named China's top ten livable cities by Chinese Cities Brand Value Report, which was released at 2007 Beijing Summit of China Cities Forum.
Bell TH-67 Creek
The Bell TH-67 Creek is a US helicopter. It is a military variant of the famous civilian Bell 206B used for training by the United States Army.
Mad Libs
Mad Libs is a fill-in-the-blank word game invented in 1958 by Roger Price and Leonard B. Stern.
One player chooses a story and then replaces words with blanks containing (noun, verb, part of body plural, celebrity male, etc.). The other player fills in the blanks by saying the type of the word, but without showing where it is in the story and the words around it. A usually nonsensical story will be made.
Anne Noë
Annie Ida Jenny Noë Haesendonck (born 13 April 1959) is a Belgian football coach and former international goalkeeper. She won 59 caps for the Belgium women's national football team between 1979 and 1994. When playing for the national team, Noë had to wear Jean-Marie Pfaff's old shirts. She stopped playing when she was 35 years old, then became a coach with the Royal Belgian Football Association. In 1999 she was appointed head coach of the national team.
Bone, Idaho
Bone is an unincorporated community in Bonneville County, Idaho, United States. The town has almost no permanent year-round residents. The Bone Store, the only building in town, is known for the brands left on the ceiling by area ranchers.
Utah Beach
Utah Beach was a codename for one of the five landing beaches in Operation Overlord (D-Day, or the Invasion of Normandy). Utah Beach was landed on by American Rangers, on June 6, 1944, where they breached German defenses. The battle site is located in Normandy, France.
Camp County, Texas
Camp County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 12,401 people lived there. The county seat is Pittsburg.
Bandera County, Texas
Bandera County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 20,485 people lived there. The county seat is Bandera.
Bastrop County, Texas
Bastrop County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 74,171 people lived there. The county seat is Bastrop.
Baylor County, Texas
Baylor County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 3,726 people lived there. The county seat is Seymour.
Bee County, Texas
Bee County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 31,861 people lived there. The county seat is Beeville.
Bell County, Texas
Bell County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 310,235 people lived there. The county seat is Belton.
Borden County, Texas
Borden County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 641 people lived there. The county seat is Gail.
Grand slam (baseball)
In baseball, a grand slam is a home run hit with runners on first, second, and third base ("bases loaded"). This scores four runs and is the most possible in one play.
According to "The Dickson Baseball Dictionary", the term came from the card game of contract bridge. A "grand slam" in contract bridge involves taking all the possible tricks. The word "slam", by itself, can mean a loud sound, such as a door being closed with a lot of force. "Slamming the door" on one's opponent(s), is similar to the bat slamming the ball into a home run.
Call of Duty: WWII
Call of Duty: WWII is a first-person shooter video game that was released on November 3, 2017 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows. The game was developed by Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software and published by Activision.
Bell 407
The Bell 407 is a is a light helicopter. It was designed and built in the United States by Bell Helicopters from the famous model 206. It was originally designed for civilian purposes. The Bell 407 is often used for transport, as an air ambulance, for law enforcement, news gathering, and movie making. It was changed to be used by the military including the US Army as OH-58D Kiowa Warrior.
Saeed Karimian
Saeed Karimian Saeed Karimian (8 August 1972 – 29 April 2017) was an expatriate Iranian financier and owner of GEM TV who was assassinated in Istanbul, Turkey, on 29 April 2017, along with his Kuwaiti business partner.
Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms
The Montague–Chelmsford Reforms, sometimes called the Mont-Ford Reforms were reforms introduced to India by the British Raj in 1919. They slowly introduced a system of self-governing institutions.
This was opposed by the Assertive nationalists but welcomed by the Early nationalists.
Atul
Deaths in May 2017
The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2017. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Previous months". Names under each date are reported in alphabetical order by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are reported here also if notable.
Donald Sarason
Donald Erik Sarason (January 26, 1933 – April 8, 2017) was an American mathematician. He made advances in the areas of Hardy space theory and VMO. He was one of the most popular doctoral advisers in the Mathematics Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
Sarason died on April 8, 2017 at the age of 84 in Berkeley, California.
Carl Christ