Canadian ice hockey player and activist (born 1988)

Brendan Burke

Brendan Gilmore Burke was an athlete and student manager at Miami University for the RedHawks men's ice hockey team. The youngest son of Brian Burke, former general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, longtime executive of various other NHL teams and of the US Olympic hockey team, in November 2009, he made international headlines for coming out, advocating for tolerance and speaking out against homophobia in professional sports. Burke's coming out was widely praised and supported by sports news outlets and fans, generating multiple discussions about homophobia in sports, and in hockey in particular.

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-2 Caesar Augustus is granted the title pater patriae by the Roman Senate.
62 An earthquake with an estimated intensity between IX or X on the Mercalli scale occurs in Pompeii, Italy.
756 An Lushan proclaims himself Emperor of China, founding the short-lived state of Yan.
1265 Pope Clement IV is elected as the 183rd Bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church.

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april 10 Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and dozens of other senior officials and dignitaries.
april 12 Merano derailment: A rail accident in South Tyrol kills nine people and injures a further 28.
april 20 The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that lasted six months.
april 21 The controversial Kharkiv Pact (Russian Ukrainian Naval Base for Gas Treaty) is signed in Kharkiv, Ukraine, by Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev; it was unilaterally terminated by Russia on March 31, 2014.

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