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__**//​Annasta//**____**//sia Kulp's Birthday Project//**__
 * My birthday is on July 21, 1994. I was born at 6:22 pm, 18 1/2 inches and weighed 7 punds 12 ounces. The temperature on this day was around 75.9 degrees to high 81.1 degrees.


 * **On this day in the year 365**, a powerful earthquake off the coast of Greece causes a tsunami that devastates the city of Alexandra, Egypt. Although there were no measuring tools at the time scientists now estimate that the quake was actuallt two tremors in succession, the largest of which is thought to have had a magnitude of 8.0. The tsunami wave then rused in and carried the ships over the sea walls, landing many on top of buildings. IN Alexandra, approximately 50,000 homes were destroyed
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 * **On thi****s day i****n 1775**, Patriot minutemen in whaleboats commanded by major Joseph Vose, raid Nantasket Point, also known as little Brewster Island, in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. the raiders temporarily drive off the islands British guard and confiscate lamps, oil, gunpowder and boats befroe burning the wooden parts of the point lighthouse. Ten days later, at General Coerge Washington orders, Americans major Benjamin Tupper returned to the island with 300 men in whaleboats to prevent the British from completing their repairs to the burned lighthouse.


 * **In 1899**, Hart Crane was born. The son of a candy manufacturer, Crane grew up in an unhappy household. His parents fought bitterly and divorced, Crane began to write poetry in his teens and went to New York City in 1917 to develop his writing.

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 * **In 1862,** former President Marin Van Buren, who served as the nation's eighth president between 1837 and 1841, slipsi into a coma. Van Buren, who developed asthma in 1860 had a history of heavy drinking, as well as later in life cardiac problems. The drinking, for which he had earned a reputation as early as age 25, may have contributed to a host of illnesses he experienced in his lifetime


 * **In 1911**, David Lloyd George delivers Mansion House speech. Lloyd George, a radical member of the Liberal government of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, had made a name for himself as a leftist, anti-imperialist in fluence in the party, promoting pension plans for the elderly and South African, or Boer War in 1899-1902.


 * **In 1925**, School Teacher John t, Scopes is convicted of violating Tennessee's law against teaching evolution in public schools. The case debated in the so-called "trial of the Cenury" was never really in doubt: the jury only conferred for a few moments in the hallway before returning to the courtroom with a quilty verdict.


 * **In the year 1967**, the actor Basil Rathbone dies. Rathbone was best known for his role as detective Sherlock Holmes. He first played the character in 1939, in //The Hound of the Baskervilles.// Rathbone starred in 14 Sherlock Holmes movies in the 1940's with Nigel Bruce playing Sherlocks sidekicks, Dr. Watson. He received Academy Award hominations for Best Supporting Actor in //Romeo and Juliet// in 1936 and //If I Were King// in 1938.


 * **In the** **year** **1944**, Adolf Hitler takes to the airwave to announce that the attempt on his life has failed and that "accounts will be settled." HItler had survived the bomb blast that was meant to take his life


 * **In 1959**, Elijah Je:Pumpsie" makes his Boston Red Sox debut, becoming the first Afican American ever to play for the Red Sox. The last team in the major leagues to integrate. Green pinch-ran for Vic Wertz and then played short stop in 2-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.


 * The population in the world in the year 1994 was 5.602 people.


 * The Pesident was William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton from 1993-2001. He legally avoided the draft and possible service in Vetnam. His Vice Persident was Al Gore.


 * The World Series was canceled in 1994. As a major leafue baseball players in the U.S strike out over salary capping.


 * The Super Bowl wimmer was Sanfransisco. The Other team was Sandiego. The Score was 49-26.