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Notable Achievements at Age 24
Placed on injured reserve (hamstring)
Vikings placed Jefferson on IR Oct 11 due to a hamstring injury suffered in Week 5.
Season-high 51 points (Jan 16, 2023)
Scored 51 points (season-high) vs Charlotte Hornets and surpassed Larry Bird for most 50-point regular season games in Celtics history.
Scores hat-trick in 2022 World Cup final; wins Golden Boot and Silver Ball
Scored a hat-trick for France in the final vs Argentina (3–3, lost on penalties); won the Golden Boot (8 goals) and Silver Ball.
Surpassed 100 million subscribers
Main MrBeast channel reached 100M subscribers, becoming the fifth channel and second individual to do so.
Tokyo Olympics — Balance Beam Bronze (returned)
Returned to competition to win bronze on balance beam — her seventh Olympic medal, tying Shannon Miller for most by an American gymnast at the time.
Tokyo Olympics — withdrew from team final citing 'twisties'
After qualifications Biles withdrew from most competition due to loss of air awareness ('the twisties'); withdrew during team final after an Amanar balk and later returned to win beam bronze.
Reached 100 points in 53 games; won 2020–21 Art Ross Trophy
On May 9, 2021 he reached 100 points in only 53 games; finished the 56-game season with 33 goals, 72 assists and 105 points to win his third Art Ross Trophy.
Led Chiefs to Super Bowl LIV and won Super Bowl MVP
Led Kansas City to their first Super Bowl title in 50 years (Super Bowl LIV, Feb 2, 2020) defeating the 49ers; named Super Bowl LIV MVP.
Modelled in Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (first model with vitiligo)
Became the first model with vitiligo to walk in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (2018), cited as a major milestone in representation.
2017 NBA All-Star Game MVP (52 points)
Named All-Star Game MVP after a then-record 52-point performance in the 2017 NBA All-Star Game.
First NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) award
Won his first NBA MVP after averaging 28.4 PPG and leading Cleveland to 66 wins (franchise record at the time).
Graduated RISD with BFA in Graphic & Industrial Design
Completed dual-major BFA and formal design education; supplemented coursework at Brown University and MIT.
Founded Nihon SoftBank (SoftBank Group)
Founded Nihon SoftBank (now SoftBank Group Corp.) as a software distributor and publisher of computer-related literature.
BBC Micro selected
Acorn's Proton was accepted as the BBC Micro, with Wilson responsible for the operating system and BBC BASIC implementation.
Birth of son Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones
Duncan (later film director Duncan Jones) was born; Bowie wrote 'Kooks' for him on Hunky Dory.
PhD awarded (U. of Michigan) — dissertation 'Utopia'
Received Ph.D. in sociology; dissertation on 19th-century utopian communes (Utopia: A Study in Comparative Organization).
Awarded PhD from Cambridge
Obtained PhD in applied mathematics and theoretical physics (thesis: Properties of Expanding Universes), specialising in general relativity and cosmology.
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