American football player and radio host

Lynn Dickey

Clifford Lynn Dickey is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Green Bay Packers. He played college football for the Kansas State Wildcats and was selected in the third round of the 1971 NFL draft by the Houston Oilers, where he spent his first five seasons. Dickey was a member of the Packers for his remaining 10 seasons, leading them in 1982 to their first playoff appearance since 1972 and victory since 1967. He also led the league in passing touchdowns during the 1983 season.

Born

1949

October 19

Died

Living

Era

1940s

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Key dates

1949 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

-202 Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.[citation needed]
439 The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
1386 The Universität Heidelberg holds its first lecture, making it the oldest German university.
1453 Hundred Years' War: Three months after the Battle of Castillon, England loses its last possessions in southern France.

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The world in 1949

When Lynn arrived

april 1 Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
april 1 The Government of Canada repeals Japanese-Canadian internment after seven years.
april 18 The Republic of Ireland Act comes into force, declaring Éire to be a republic and severing Ireland's "association" with the Commonwealth of Nations.
april 20 Amethyst incident: The People's Liberation Army attacks HMS Amethyst (F116) travelling to the British embassy in Nanjing during the Chinese Civil War.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on October 19

Ayuo Takahashi 1960– Japanese-American singer-songwriter Bill Ponsford 1900– Australian cricketer and baseball player (died 1991) Evander Holyfield 1962– American boxer and actor Grover Norquist 1956– American activist, founded Americans for Tax Reform Jack Anderson 1922–2005 American journalist and author (born 1922) James Bevel 1936–2008 American minister and activist (born 1936) James Howard Kunstler 1948– American author and critic Jean Dausset 1916–2009 French-Spanish immunologist and academic; awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of the genetic basis of immunological reaction (born 1916) John Woolman 1720–1772 American-English preacher, journalist, and activist (died 1772)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1949

Alan García 1949–2019 Peruvian lawyer and politician, twice President of Peru (born 1949) Alla Pugacheva 1949– Russian singer-songwriter and actress Anna Wintour 1949– English-American journalist Beth Grant 1949– American actress Billy Joel 1949– American singer-songwriter and pianist Carlos the Jackal 1949– Venezuelan terrorist David A. Cherry 1949– American artist and illustrator Dominique Strauss-Kahn 1949– French economist, lawyer, and politician, French Minister of Finance Don Baylor 1949–2017 American baseball player (born 1949)

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