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 * //__Trachelle Robinson__//** On Tuesday, February 28,1995 I was born in San Antonio,Texas. I weighed 5lbs and was 26 inches. The weather on the day i was born was a low 56 and high 72 .

​  //**__FEBRUARY 28'S IN HISTORY!  __**//

__1784__

John Wesley charters the first Methodist Church in the U.S. Despite the fact that he was originally and Angelican, John thought that he needed to provide church structure for his followers. He thought of the idea after the Angelican Church abandoned its American believers during the American Revolution .  1844- President John Taylor narrowly escapes death riding the //USS PRINCETON//. After successfully shooting off two shots from a cannon named " Peacemaker", a third shot was intiated and a almost deadly explosion was produced. Several were killed including Taylor's soon to be father- in law. Among those dead were several people from Taylor's cabinet.  1 861 with the regions population booming, Congress creates the new Colorado territory.Pikes peak gold rush was the reason it was founded.After the lure of gold launched the first major gold invasion .  

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #1bb6b6; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 158.4%;">__1864__- General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick leads 3,500 troops going towards Richmond. The raid was supposed to set free federal prisoners and spread word of Lincoln's Proclamation and Reconstruction in hopes of convincing the South to surrender <span style="color: #7ab3b3; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 132%;">. <span style="color: #a75252; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #82f2c9; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">1893- Edward Goodrich Acheson patents a method for silicon carbide or carborundum. Silicon carbide is a substance a little less hard than diamonds, but much cheaper to reproduce. It is mostly used as an abrasive but has many applications including semiconductors.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__<span style="color: #1bb6b6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">1894 __ <span style="color: #1d9f6f; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #7c277c; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 172.8%;">Ben Hect is born. Hect <span style="color: #751575; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 144%;">, <span style="color: #751575; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 172.8%;">was born in New York city to Russian Jewish immigrants.Ben was a novelist playwright and screenwriter.Before being all of those things, Hect was a star reporter <span style="color: #409177; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 172.8%;">. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">

<span style="color: #688787; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 144%;">__1903__- Henry Ford hires John F. and Horace E. Dodge to supply mechanical parts for his 650 Ford automobiles. John and Horace were originally bicycle manufactures but then turned to automobile industry in 1901. In 1903, the Dodge Brothers began manufacturing car bodies for Henry Ford. At that time, Henry decided to hire them as his partners <span style="color: #688787; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">1932- The last Ford Model A was produced ending an era for the Ford Motor Company. The Model A was a way to get rid of the bare bone image that the Model T had. Model A, was a huge success at an affordable price, and over five million Model's were driven in the United states between 1927 and 1932.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #60e660; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1953- Cambridge scientists, James Watson and Frances Crick,confirmed that they had determined the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule containing human genes.although this is the date they determined the gene, April 25, 1953 was the day they formally announced it in that month's issue of Nature magazine. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> 1960- Richard Petty, " the king of stock car racing" recorded his first ever Grand National win, in old Charlotte, North Carolina fairgrounds.Eight months prior,Petty had beat out his father Lee, at the Grand National race in Lakewood,Georgia. Petty's win was reviewed at the protest of his own father, and his father was awarded the win.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #d4ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 168%;">1975- subway crash in london kills 43 people. The driver of the train apparently, made no effort to break as the train went for a dead end. After much time many people still think it was a suicide. It took 12 hours for the final survivor to be rescued <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #bf0d67; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 144%;">1982- The J. Paul Getty Museum becomes the most enriched museum in the world. It receives the 1.2 billion dollars left to it by the late J.Paul Getty. He left more than a third of his money to the museum saying he wished the money to be used " for the diffusion of artistic and general knowledge <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #8e2f5f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">"

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff8100; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> 1993- At Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas, an ATF raid beings. The U.S Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms being a raid against the Branch Davidian compound as part of an investigation into an illegal possession of firearms and explosives. The Davidan's was a Christian cult. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #e363f8; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">

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<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffbd00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 144%;">1993- actress Ruby Keeler dies. A star of numerous Busby Berkeley musicals. Keeler was the main event of many over the top dance numbers. She was also a chorus girl and a budding broadway star <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #e363f8; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">.

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1994- <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #e363f8; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 156%;"> in the first military action in a 45-year history of the NATO, U.S fighter planes shot down four Serbian warplanes that were bombing in violation of Bosnia's no-fly zone. In 1994 and 1995 NATO <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #e363f8; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 187.2%;"> <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #e363f8; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 156%;">planes initiated the no-fly zone over Bosnia and several times struck at the Bosnian Serb military positions.

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<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center; vertical-align: super;">MORE SUPER AMAZING FACTS!!!! <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 110%;">President William Clinton

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Vice president- Al Gore

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Population- 262.8 million people in the U.S

<span style="color: #bf0d67; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Scientific Inventions**- 1953** Wallace Carothers invents the polymer nylon at DuPont labs.

Super Bowl winner - <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">San Fransisco 49er vs. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">San Diego Chargers score<span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 49-26 49ers WIN!!

World Series Winner <span style="color: #8e2f5f; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Atlanta Braves score 4-2

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Science Event <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 120%;">Dr. S. Parthasarathy, head of the acoustics division of the National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, has been elected President of the Physics Section of the Indian Science Congress for 1959

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