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**Felicia Almeida

I was born on a Tuesday afternoon at around 2:15 pm. I was 8lbs 3oz and 20 in. The weather was very nice, it was 60 degress and sunny.C= On the same day and time my moms step sister was having my cousin in the same hospital in the next room over. :p Haha

The President was Bill clinton and Al Gore was the Vice President. :O In 1994 there was a players strike so there was no world series. :( In 1994 super bowl 28, the Dallas Cowboys defeated Buffalo Bills 30-13 :D

December 6,1811 The Missouri earthquake Anniversary ** **The longest series of earthquakes in the history of the U.S. Not that many died due to the sparse population. The highest on the Richter scale all were in Alaska along with it didn’t end till February 12, 1812.  December 6, 1865  ** **The thirteenth amendment of the constitution was ratified approving slavery in the untied states along with any other place. No matter what people say it is now part of the constitution. It was then proclaimed in December 18, 1865

December 6, 1896 The birthday of Ira Gershwin Winning American Lyricist/ Author. Him and his brother George collaborated along with many other composers. Laby be good, strike up the band, Funny face and songs “ someone to Watch over Me”, and “ The Man I Love”. He was born in New York, NY, died in Beverly Hills, CA August 17, 1983. **



** December 6, 1994 Washington’s Monument completed In 1832 the monument was thought to be built due to the death of Washington. They started a fun raiser for the building of the monument they got 230,000 out of the million that they needed. The construction started anyway. When finished stacked 555 ft. in the air with 36,000 blocks of granite and marble.

December 6, 1907 The Monongan coal mine disaster Mines owed by the Fairmount coal company in Monongan killed 361 coal miners. Worst know in America history of disasters. It all happened in West Virginia, Marion country. **

[] **December 6, 1917 The Greatest Halifax Explosion** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 133.1%;">**On this day in the morning the vessel IMO left the Halifax harbor to new York city as well as the French fighter Mont Blanc, which happened to be carrying 200 tons of TNT, 10 tons gun cotton, 2.300 ton of picric acid, and 35 ton high-octane gasoline. The tow ships collided and killed more then 1,800 people, blinding 200 injuring 9,00, destroyed most of the city north including 1,200 homes and you could here hundred miles away.** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 121%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> **December 6, 11933 Ulysses is ruled not obscene** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 121%;">**When the book __Ulysses__, written by James Joyce, came out it was immediately banned in England and he United States. Thee years before, its serialization in review for America quickly ended by U.S. post office for the same reason. Sylvia Beach published it herself, she owned a Bookstore called “Shakespeare and Co.” Along with she was a supporter of James.**