Magic Johnson (born 1959) is a retired American professional basketball
player who played point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the
National Basketball Association (NBA). After winning championships in
high school and college, Johnson was selected first overall in the 1979
NBA Draft by the Lakers. He won a championship and an NBA Finals Most
Valuable Player (MVP) Award in his rookie season, and won four more
championships with the Lakers during the 1980s. Johnson retired in 1991
after announcing that he had HIV, but returned to play in the 1992
All-Star Game, winning the All-Star MVP Award. He retired again for
four years, but returned in 1996 to play 32 games for the Lakers before
retiring for the third and final time. Johnson's career achievements
include three NBA MVP Awards, nine NBA Finals appearances, twelve
All-Star games, and ten All-NBA nominations. He led the league in
regular-season assists four times, and is the NBA's all-time leader in
assists per game. Johnson was a member of the "Dream Team", the U.S.
basketball team that won the Olympic gold medal in 1992. He was honored
as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996, and enshrined
in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1385:
Forces under John I defeated the Castilians in the Battle of
Aljubarrota, ending the 1383–1385 Crisis in Portugal.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aljubarrota>
1842:
American Indian Wars: United States general William Jenkins Worth
declared the Second Seminole War to be over.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Seminole_War>
1888:
A recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's The Lost Chord (audio
clip right), one of the first recordings of music ever made, was played
during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in
London.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Chord>
1994:
Leftist revolutionary and mercenary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as
Carlos the Jackal, was handed over to French agents by his own
bodyguards.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_the_Jackal>
2005:
Helios Airways Flight 522 crashed into a mountain north of Marathon and
Varnava, Greece, killing all 121 on board.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522>
2006:
The United Nations brokered a ceasefire in the Lebanon War between
Lebanon and Israel.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
eavesdrop (v):
To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eavesdrop>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the
first half learning and the second half learning that everything you
learned in the first half was wrong.
--Russell Baker
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Russell_Baker>
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