American basketball player and coach

John Giannini

John Manfredo Giannini is an American college basketball coach, Director of Athletics at Rowan University, and college basketball analyst for NBC Sports and other networks. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Rowan University from 1989 to 1996, the University of Maine from 1996 to 2004, and La Salle University from 2004 to 2018. Giannini led Rowan to an NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament championship in 1996 and led La Salle to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament in 2013. Giannini amassed more than 500 victories in his collegiate coaching career.

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1962

October 31

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475 Romulus Augustulus is proclaimed Western Roman Emperor.
683 During the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba catches fire and is burned down.
802 Empress Irene is deposed and banished to Lesbos. Conspirators place Nikephoros, the minister of finance, on the Byzantine throne.
932 Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir is killed while fighting against the forces of general Mu'nis al-Muzaffar. Al-Muqtadir's brother al-Qahir is chosen to succeed him.

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The world in 1962

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april 21 The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
april 26 NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
april 26 The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
august 11 Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.

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Barbara Bel Geddes 1922–2005 American actress (born 1922) Brian Doyle-Murray 1945– American actor and comedian Constance Savery 1897– English author (died 1999) Denzil Holles 1599–1680 1st Baron Holles, English politician (born 1599) Dermot Mulroney 1963– American actor Fred McGriff 1963– American baseball player Galileo Ferraris 1847–1897 Italian physicist and engineer (born 1847) Henriette of Cleves 1542– Duchess of Nevers, Countess of Rethel (died 1601) Holly Taylor 1997– Canadian-American actress

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Art Alexakis 1962– American singer-songwriter and musician Billy Beane 1962– American baseball player and manager Brian Azzarello 1962– American author Chris Sanders 1962– American illustrator and voice actor Clint Black 1962– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer David Arnold 1962– English composer Dee Bradley Baker 1962– American voice actor Denis O'Hare 1962– American actor and singer Evander Holyfield 1962– American boxer and actor

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