New Zealand-Australian rugby league player

Willie Mason

William Marshall Mason, also nicknamed "Big Willie", is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. An Australia and Tonga international and New South Wales State of Origin representative forward, he played in the National Rugby League for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, the Sydney Roosters, the North Queensland Cowboys, the Newcastle Knights and the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles. Mason also played in the Super League for English club Hull Kingston Rovers and French club, the Catalans Dragons. He also played rugby union in the Top 14 for French club RC Toulonnais.

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1980

April 15

Died

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1980 Born

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769 The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.
1071 Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to the Norman Robert Guiscard.
1071 The sharif of Mecca changes the khutbah from the Shiite Fatimid caliph in Cairo to the Sunni Abbasid Caliph in Bagdhad.
1191 Henry VI, King of Germany, is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by pope Celestine III.

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The world in 1980

When Willie arrived

april 12 The Americo-Liberian government of Liberia is violently deposed.
april 12 Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed.
april 12 Canadian runner and athlete, Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope Run in St. John's, NF
april 18 The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency.

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Leonardo da Vinci 1452–1519 Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (died 1519) Leonhard Euler 1707–1783 Swiss mathematician and physicist (died 1783) Alla Pugacheva 1949– Russian singer-songwriter and actress Ashleigh Gardner 1997– Australian cricketer Claudia Cardinale 1938– Italian actress (died 2025) Corrie ten Boom 1892– Dutch-American clocksmith, Nazi resister, and author (died 1983) Dawn Wright 1961– American geographer and oceanographer Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1772–1844 French biologist and zoologist (died 1844) Harold Washington 1922–1987 American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Chicago (died 1987)

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Aaron Brown 1980–2024 American journalist and academic (born 1948) Anthony Minichiello 1980– Australian rugby league player Bijou Phillips 1980– American actress and model Bradley Wiggins 1980– English cyclist Byron Leftwich 1980– American football player and coach Clinton Toopi 1980– New Zealand rugby league player Cody Ross 1980– American baseball player Daniel MacPherson 1980– Australian actor and television host Daniel Sedin 1980– Swedish ice hockey player

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