American union leader and mobster (born 1920)

Frank Sheeran

Francis Joseph Sheeran, also known as "The Irishman", was an American labor union official and enforcer for Jimmy Hoffa and Russell Bufalino. Raised in a devoutly Catholic Irish-American family in a working-class town near Philadelphia, he grew up poor during the Great Depression and enlisted in the US Army after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 served with the 45th Infantry Division during the Italian Campaign in the Mediterannean Theater as both an infantryman and in the Military Police Corps. After returning to Pennsylvania, he did various odd jobs before becoming involved with the Teamsters and its president, Jimmy Hoffa.

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557 Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake, which cracks the dome of Hagia Sophia.
835 Sweet Dew Incident: Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspires to kill the powerful eunuchs of the Tang court, but the plot is foiled.
872 Pope John VIII is elected following the death of Hadrian II.
1287 St. Lucia's flood: The Zuiderzee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.

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april 14 The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
april 14 U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
april 16 The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
april 17 Anneli Jäätteenmäki takes office as the first female prime minister of Finland.

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