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Matt Prior (rugby league)
1987 May, 27

Matt Prior (rugby league)

Matt Prior, Australian rugby league player
Matthew Prior (born 27 May 1987) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as prop and loose forward for the Leeds Rhinos in the Super League.

He was a member of the St. George Illawarra Dragons' 2010 and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks' 2016 NRL Premership winning teams. Prior has played for Country Origin and New South Wales. He played as a second-row forward and centre earlier in his career.

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Events on 1987

  • 27 Apr

    Kurt Waldheim

    The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the USA, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
  • 1 May

    Auschwitz concentration camp

    Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
  • 4 Jul

    Klaus Barbie

    In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.
  • 27 Jul

    RMS Titanic

    RMS Titanic Inc. begins the first expedited salvage of wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
  • 7 Nov

    Habib Bourguiba

    In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.