John Morrison, American wrestler and actor
John Randall Hennigan (born October 3, 1979) is an American professional wrestler and actor, better known by the ring name John Morrison. He is best known for his time in WWE, where he was a contracted performer from 2002 to 2011, and 2019 to 2021.Hennigan won Tough Enough III (a WWE reality TV competition show that awarded winners a wrestling contract with the company), and was assigned to its developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), to continue his wrestling training. WWE promoted Hennigan to its SmackDown! roster in April 2005 under the ring name Johnny Nitro; in his debut match on the show, he won the WWE Tag Team Championship (as a part of the tag team, MNM). Outside of WWE, Hennigan held lead or main event roles in several independent wrestling promotions, including the lucha libre wrestling promotions Lucha Underground and Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide as Johnny Mundo, as well as Impact Wrestling as Johnny Impact.
Hennigan is a four-time world champion, having won the ECW World Heavyweight Championship (WWE revival version), AAA Mega Championship, Impact Wrestling World Championship, and the Lucha Underground Championship once each. In WWE, he also held the Intercontinental Championship three times, and was a six-time tag team champion (one World Tag Team Championship, four WWE Tag Team Championships, and one SmackDown Tag Team Championship). In lucha libre, Hennigan was a central fixture in all four seasons of Lucha Underground, and was AAA's first-ever triple champion (holding the AAA Mega Championship, AAA Latin American Championship, and AAA World Cruiserweight Championship simultaneously. He has headlined multiple pay-per-view events for WWE and Impact, including the latter company's flagship event, Bound for Glory, in 2017 and 2018.
Outside of wrestling, Hennigan has also worked in the film and television industry. In film, he has mainly worked as an actor, producer and stuntman. He is also known for being a contestant on the 37th season of the competitive reality show Survivor.
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- 1Feb
Ruhollah Khomeini
Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile. - 11Feb
Ruhollah Khomeini
The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. - 16Mar
People's Liberation Army
Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war. - 15Jul
Malaise speech
U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech". - 16Dec
OPEC
Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.