Kobe Bryant was born on 23 August 1978 in Philadelphia. An American basketball player, Bryant spent his entire twenty-year National Basketball Association career with the Los Angeles Lakers, who drafted him straight from high school. He won five league championships, was named the league's Most Valuable Player in 2008, and was an eighteen-time All-Star. Known for an obsessive work ethic he called the Mamba Mentality, he scored 81 points in a game in 2006, among the highest totals in league history. After retiring he won an Academy Award for the animated short Dear Basketball. He died in a helicopter crash in California along with his daughter Gianna and seven others.
Before and after
- 22 June 1978Discovery of Charon
- 25 July 1978The first IVF baby is born
- 1 August 1978Establishment of Berchtesgaden National Park
- 6 August 1978Death of Paul VI
- 23 August 1978Birth of Kobe Bryant
- September 1978Human insulin is made in bacteria
- 17 September 1978Camp David Accords
- 28 September 1978Death of John Paul I
- 1 October 1978Founding of Tuvalu
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