Maria Sharapova was born on 19 April 1987 in Nyagan. A Russian tennis player, Sharapova moved to Florida as a child to train at an academy and became a champion as a teenager, winning Wimbledon in 2004 at the age of seventeen. She went on to complete the career Grand Slam, with titles at the US Open, the Australian Open and the French Open, and reached the world number one ranking. A shoulder injury interrupted her career, and she was suspended in 2016 after testing positive for meldonium, a substance that had been newly banned. She retired in 2020, and has built a successful confectionery business.
Before and after
- 24 January 1987Birth of Luis Suárez
- 22 February 1987Death of Andy Warhol
- 24 February 1987SN 1987A
- 1 April 1987Founding of Australian Securities Exchange
- 19 April 1987Birth of Maria Sharapova
- 19 June 19871987 Hipercor bombing
- 24 June 1987Birth of Lionel Messi
- 16 September 1987Montreal Protocol
- from 18 September 1987 to 28 November 1990Premiere of DuckTales
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- 4 April 1949Founding of NATO
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- 1 November 1993Founding of European Union
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