American football player and coach

Jim Harbaugh

James Joseph Harbaugh is an American professional football coach and former quarterback who is the head coach for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as the head coach at the University of Michigan from 2015 to 2023, the San Francisco 49ers from 2011 to 2014, Stanford University from 2007 to 2010, and the University of San Diego from 2004 to 2006. Harbaugh played college football at Michigan from 1983 to 1986 and in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons from 1987 to 2000, with his longest tenure (1987–1993) as a player with the Chicago Bears.

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1963

December 23

Died

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1963 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

484 The Arian Vandal Kingdom ceases its persecution of Nicene Christianity.
558 Chlothar I is crowned King of the Franks.
583 Maya queen Yohl Ik'nal is crowned ruler of Palenque.
962 The Sack of Aleppo as part of the Arab–Byzantine wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops storm the city of Aleppo.

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The world in 1963

When Jim arrived

april 10 One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
april 11 Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics, and which described the conditions for world peace in human terms.
april 12 The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.[citation needed]
april 16 U.S. civil rights campaigner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. writes his open letter from Birmingham Jail, sometimes known as "The Negro Is Your Brother", while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama, for protesting against segregation.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on December 23

Adly Mansour 1945– Egyptian lawyer, judge, and politician, President of Egypt Arthur Gilligan 1894– English cricketer (died 1976) Barry Kooser 1968– American painter and animator Bernard Pollard 1984– American football player Bobby Ross 1936– American football player and coach Cody Ross 1980– American baseball player Frederic Forrest 1936– American actor (died 2023) Gerrit W. Gong 1953– American religious leader and academic Jari Mäenpää 1977– Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1963

Alberto Nisman 1963–2015 Argentinian lawyer (died 2015) Alec Stewart 1963– English cricketer Andrea Leadsom 1963– English politician Anne-Sophie Mutter 1963– German violinist Arthur Adams 1963– American comic book artist and writer Brian Greene 1963– American physicist Brian Robbins 1963– American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Chip Kelly 1963– American football player and coach Conan O'Brien 1963– American television host, comedian, and writer

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