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Miranda Forney The date was April 19,1995. On this sunny spring day, with a temperature of 72.9 degrees, at 1:07 p.m. a baby girl was born. The girl was 21 ¼ inches and 8 pounds and 5.1 ounces. The parents were proud and happy that the girl was healthy. They decided that they were going to name her Miranda. A Spanish name that means “admirable.” She’s a friendly girl that likes to play softball. Other than Miranda being born, there were a few other important events that happened throughout the years on this day.

April 19th, 1775


 * It was the day of the Battle of Lexington and Concord. This was first day that the American Revolution started. The British fired the “shot heard round the world.”

April 19th, 1824
 * George Gordon Byron dies in what is now Greece. He had traveled to support the Greeks struggle for independence from Turkey. Even today he is still a hero for the Greeks.

 April 19th, 1861
 * Residents of Baltimore, Maryland attack union regiment. While the group makes its way to Washington D.C, two percent of Baltimore’s city voters cast their ballots for Lincoln. While that was going on, nearly half of the voters supported John Breckinridge. Lincoln was to pass through Baltimore on his way to Washington for inauguration. Since death threats were present, He had to pass through the city in the middle of the night.

April 19th, 1897
 * The first Boston Marathon was run. A man named John J. McDermott won this marathon. His time was 2 hours 55 minuets and 10 seconds. Many marathons were held on this day.

April 19th, 1902
 *  The last and most powerful in a series of earthquakes rocks western Guatemala in 1902. More than 2000 people were killed. Then 50000 were left homeless b ecause of the disaster.

April 19th, 1939 
 * ** Connecticut finally approoves the Bill of Rights 148 years later. It was approoved by most of the states in 1791. These rights explain the Rights that citizens have.

April 19th, 1949
 * At opening night of the spring edition of the famous Moscow circus, clowns and magicians firs salvos of jokes aimed at the U.S. Although a relatively minor aspect of the total Cold War, the night was evidence. Even humor played a role in the battle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

<span style="color: #0b17d5; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 156%;">April 19th, 1989
 * <span style="color: #144cfa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A white female jogger in New York Central Park was brutally beaten and rapped. Five black and Hispanics teenagers were imprisoned. The convictions were overturned in 2003 when a serial rapist confessed. The DNA evidence linked him to the crime.

<span style="color: #0b17d5; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 156%;">April 19th, 1993
 * <span style="color: #144cfa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A 51 day siege at the Brach Davidian compound near Waco, Texas ended. A fire destroys the structure after the Federal agents smashed their way in. Dozens of people were killed.

<span style="color: #0b17d5; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 156%;">March 20th, 1995
 * <span style="color: #144cfa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A Nerve Gas attack happened in a Tokyo subway. Eight people were killed and thousands were injured. The num skinri kyo (supreme truth) cult is to blame.

<span style="color: #144cfa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 169%;">March 22nd, 1995
 * <span style="color: #144cfa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The British beef ban in “BSE,” A.K.A. “mad cow disease” scare. BSE causes the brain in animals to turn spongy. The banned the beef because they found that mad cow disease causes CJD in humans.

<span style="color: #144cfa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 169%;">April 19th, 1995 >> The bomb took off nearly half of the building. The search for missing people went for two weeks. In the end 168 people were pronounced dead. 19 of them were children that were dropped off at the daycare center inside the building. Everyone thought it was a terrorist attack. They found out that is was an American named Timothy McVeigh, a U.S. Army Soldier. He and another man were convicted of murder and conspiracy charges. <span style="color: #144cfa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 169%;"> media type="youtube" key="7V1FC8B2Hxw" height="285" width="418" April 19th, 1995
 * <span style="color: #144cfa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">I was born on this day. A wonderful day for my family, but an awful day for our nation. The Oklahoma City Bombing had occurred. A truck bomb had gone off at 9:01 a.m. in front of the Alfred D. Murrah Federal Building.
 * <span style="color: #144cfa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">In Sri Lanka, the “Tigers” (a group) arose. They blew up navy boats. It killed 12 sailors in the port of Trincomalee.

<span style="color: #144cfa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 169%;">July 7th, 1995
 * <span style="color: #144cfa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">United States’ “Atlantis” docked with Russian’s “Mir.” They linked up together in Earth’s Orbit. “Atlantis” landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its original liftoff was June 27th.

<span style="color: #144cfa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 169%;"> -The president that year was Bill Clinton and the vice president was Al Gore. -The winner of the World Series that year was the Atlanta Braves. They beat Cleveland with a score of 4 to 2 -In the 1995 Super Bowl Dallas Cowboys beat the Pittsburg Steelers with a score of 27 to 17. -The population of the United States in 1995 was 264,764,948. This is a relatively close estimate. April 19th, 2001
 * <span style="color: #144cfa; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Mel Brookens musical “The Producers” went on Broadway. Its about two gentlemen trying to make money. They do so by making a humorous musical about Hitler.

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