American rower and businessman, co-founded ConnectU

Tyler Winklevoss

Tyler Howard Winklevoss is an American investor, founder of Winklevoss Capital Management and Gemini cryptocurrency exchange and former Olympic rower. Winklevoss co-founded HarvardConnection along with his identical twin brother Cameron Winklevoss and a Harvard classmate of theirs, Divya Narendra. In 2004, the Winklevoss brothers sued Mark Zuckerberg, claiming he stole their ConnectU idea to create the social networking service site Facebook, and received $65 million as settlement. As a rower, Winklevoss competed in the men's pair rowing event at the 2008 Summer Olympics with his identical twin brother and rowing partner, Cameron.

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1981

August 21

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1981 Born

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959 Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège.
1140 Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song Wars.
1169 Battle of the Blacks: Uprising by the black African forces of the Fatimid army, along with a number of Egyptian emirs and commoners, against Saladin.
1192 Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes Sei-i Taishōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: the 12th day of the seventh month in the third year of the Kenkyū (建久) era).

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The world in 1981

When Tyler arrived

april 10 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands is elected to Westminster as the MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He died twenty-six days later.
april 11 A massive riot in Brixton, south London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
april 12 The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission.
april 14 STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia, completes its first test flight.

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Alicia Witt 1975– American actress and musician Archie Griffin 1954– American football player Cameron Winklevoss 1981– American rower and businessman, co-founded ConnectU Carrie-Anne Moss 1967– Canadian actress Donald Dewar 1937–2000 Scottish politician, first First Minister of Scotland (died 2000) Emiliano Mercado del Toro 1891–2007 Puerto Rican-American soldier (died 2007) James FitzJames 1670–1734 1st Duke of Berwick, French general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (died 1734) Jules Michelet 1798–1874 French historian and philosopher (died 1874) Melvin Van Peebles 1932– American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2021)

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Beyoncé 1981– American singer-songwriter Amanda Beard 1981– American swimmer Amy Lee 1981– American singer, songwriter and pianist André Lotterer 1981– German race car driver Anthony Ervin 1981– American swimmer Audrey Tang 1981– Taiwanese Minister of Digital Affairs and programmer Cameron Winklevoss 1981– American rower and businessman, co-founded ConnectU Chin-hui Tsao 1981– Taiwanese baseball player Daisuke Sekimoto 1981– Japanese wrestler

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