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The Shocking History Of The 90’s By: Antaniya Dawson


 * This research paper is about the 90’s and how famous people died, was charged with murder, became president; found stores, volcanoes erupting, truck explosions, submarines spying, and earthquakes.**
 * Ava Gardner was born on Dec. 24, 1922. She grew up in Grab town, North Carolina on a tobacco farm with her family. Her family was poor; she was the youngest out of seven children. Ava had grown up being a tomboy until she was 18. She was spotted by talent scouts for her beauty. There were portraits of her in the window of her brothers-in-law’s New York City photograph studio. She was signed to a contract by the MGM Studios. That’s when Ava Gardner became an American actress. After she had started her career, she got married. She was married three times out of her whole life. Her first marriage was with Mickey Rooney from 1942-1943. Her Second Marriage was with Artie Shaw from 1945-1946. In her last two marriages she got married back to back in just two years. Now her third marriage was with Frank Sinatra from 1951-1957. They were married for six years. Ava and Frank were in love but they had to go their separate ways after all those years. In all three of those marriages, Ava had got pregnant. But she didn’t tell anybody and she had got three abortions. Years later, she had a stroke in 1989 and was paralyzed. The last two years of her life Ava Gardner died on January 25, 1991, she died of having Pneumonia.**
 * Berry Kroeger was born on October 16, 1912 in San Antonio, Texas. He first stepped before a microphone as a teenager in San Antonio. Berry was 21 when he was managing the Texas radio station. He got acting start on radio as an announcer playing for a time called “The Falcon and The Shadow.” Kroeger performed on Broadway with Ingrid Bergman. That’s when he was first discovered by filmmaker William Wellman. Kroeger was an American film, television, and stage actor. He began appearing in films in 1948. He appeared in a small role as a village elder in young Frankenstein. Berry Kroeger specialized in playing slimy bad guys in films like Act of Violence and The Iron Curtain, a crooked lawyer in Cry of The City, and a heavy in Joseph H. Lewis cult crime classic, Gun Crazy. Those are all of the shows and movies that he was starring in, in 1948. That’s when he first married his wife named Mary Agnes Kroeger. He was one of the several actors to potray the suave detective. Also he retired for reasons of health several years ago. Berry Kroeger was only 78 when he died on January 4, 1991 of kidney failure.**
 * Sam Walton was born on March 29, 1918 in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. He was raised in Missouri working in his father’s store while attending school. Then he attended the University of Missouri. To pay his tuition bill, he worked as a lifeguard, waiter, and a newspaper delivery route of 160 customers. By 1962, Sam Walton opened the first Wal-Mart in Rogers, Ark. In 1968, Wal-Mart had sales over 1 billion dollars and over 300 stores across North America. By 1991, Wal-Mart was the largest U.S. retailer with 1,700 stores. Then later, he married Helen Robson Kemper Walton the following year on Valentines Day. Sam Walton was the world’s second richest man, behind Bill Gates. He is one of the most successful merchants of his time. Walton struggled against two types of cancer. The cancers were, hairy-cell leukemia, and a bone-narrow cahoer called multiple myeloma. Sam Walton died at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Hospital at the age of 74. He also passed his company down to his 3 sons, daughter and wife.**
 * September 2, 1993 Snoop Dogg and his body guard McKinley Lee were arrested for murder; they killed a young man named Philip Waldemariam. Lee pulled out a weapon and fired 2 shots at the victim. After they had shot the man, they called 911 to report the incident. Snoop Dogg and Lee spent the next week dodging the police so they won’t get busted. His trial finally got under way in November 1995. Snoop Dogg was placed under house arrest for duration. The jury returned not-guilty verdicts for Snoop and Lee. His attorney alleged the Waldemariam stalked and threatened Snoop Dogg for several months. Snoop never laid eyes on this guy before he pulled a gun on him in a gas station. That was three months before Lee and Snoop Dogg killed Waldemariam. Snoop Dogg remains free on a $1 million bond. McKinley Lee was pleaded not guilty to murder charges remaining in jail on a no-bail hold. Sean Smith, one of a passenger remained free on a $200,000 bail. Snoop Dogg was charged with being a felon in possession of a fire arm.**
 * A phreatic eruption occurred on July 21. The eruption destroyed the 1991 crater dome. It produced Ava launches and ash fall. The explosion was heard 35km south of the volcano. The eruption created a shallow crater approximately 140m in diameter, and 50m in depth. It was situated about 450m W of Mexico City. There are two different types of volcanoes. The oldest one is called Nevado De Clima at 4,200m ASL. The youngest one is called Volcan De Fuego or Volca De Clima which is 200m lower. Now they are situated 5km S of Nevado. Approximately 300,000 people live within a 40km radius from the volcano. Clima is considered one of the most dangerous and active volcano there is. Several bombs caused big fires in the neighborhood. Surrounding communities face a continuing threat of ash falls and volcanic mudflows that were happening. The designated of 15 high-risk volcanoes for scientific study during the next decade.**
 * A massive truck bomb explodes outside Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The explosion happened on April 19, at 9a.m. It collapsed the North face of a nine-story building. Then killing more than 100 people and trapping dozens more, 19 young children who were in the buildings day care center. The death toll stood at 168 people killed. They built a bomb containing nearly 5,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, fuel oil and acetylene. The effects of the blast could be felt 55 miles away. The suspects were Timothy McVeigh, a 27-year-old, and Terry Nichols. An hour after the explosion, a state trooper stopped and arrested Timothy McVeigh for driving without a license plate. John Fortier knew of their plan to bomb the federal building. He agreed to testify against McVeigh and Nichols. He said McVeigh parked a Ryder truck in the buildings drop-off zone, lit the fuse and hopped in a getaway car. So ever since then the rescue effort finally ended two weeks later. Nichols received a life sentence, and McVeigh became the first federal inmate executed since 1963.**
 * At 5p.m. on September 14, 1996 with a crew of 11 and 15 operatives, the North Korean Spy Submarine that begins it’s final voyage to spy on South Korea. The sub arrived on the South Korea Coast South of Gangneung on September 15. They infiltrated three spies through the nearby rocky coast. That is attached to the nearby forested mountains. Their mission was to gain information about a ROK Air Force Base. The submarine remained hidden under the ocean until the three operatives returned back around 9p.m. on September, 17th. Spies tried to swim towards the submarine to see what was going on. But the waves were too great for them to reach the sub. Then that’s when the sub got in strong waves. Then when the waves got stronger, the sub got stuck on some submerged rocks. The South Korean Government warned it will take strong measure against North Korean provocation after spy submarine sunk. South Korean defense forces sank the submarine. The Troops setup roadblocks along country’s South Coast. Then years later a body of a North Korean frogman, armed with a hand grenade, was discovered nearby.**
 * Bill Clinton was born on August 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas. He was three months after his father died in a traffic accident. Clinton was four years old when his mother married Roger Clinton. In high school, he took the family last name. Bill Clinton met the president John Kennedy then. He received a law degree from Yale University in 1973. A few years later he married a woman named Hillary Rodham. Then in 1980, they had their only child, Chelsea was born. Bill Clinton waited a few years until his daughter got older, and he served the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the first major legislative acts was to sign the state children’s Health Insurance Program. The U.S. deficit decreased and the nation ammased a budget surplus. Clinton presidency enjoyed great economic property. He began his second term as the 42nd president of the United States. Clinton has distinction of being the president at a time when the U.S. experienced very good economic stability and sources. He was the first democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term.**
 * On Sunday, February 22, 1998 at 7:00 p.m. they reported a shooting. The victims were a 26-year-old, Renee Best and a 29-year-old Edward C. Gray. The shooting happened early evening hours of Sunday. Officers located an adult female inside of the location suffering from a gunshot wound. Renee Best was shot on 4600 Block of Hillside Road Southeast. Best was shot along with a man named Walter Jones. DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services transported the victim was pronounced dead. Less then a month later, 29-year-old Gray died following a shooting and car collision. The car he was driving appeared to have been in a collision when the police arrived. They then had realized Gray had also been shot. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. A 35-year-old Cedereck Lorenzo Shuler was charged with two counts of first degree murder. He was arrested on suspension of first degree murder in two cases. Cedereck Shuler first name is spelled several ways in court records. Those cases seem to epitomize the violence that rocked Washington at the end of the last century.**
 * The most powerful earthquake too hit turkey. The earthquake measuring six-point-seven on the richer scale struck the industrial town of Izmit in Western Turkey at just after 3:00 on Tuesday local time. Many residents of the heavily populated town were asleep in bed and had no chance of escape. Few of Izmit’s buildings were built to withstand earthquakes and whole districts collapsed. Turkey was struck by two massive earthquakes in less than three months. It was even three aftershocks followed this morning’s earthquake. The first earthquake on August 17, at 3:02 local, measured 7.4, lasted 45 seconds. Nearly 300,000 homes either damaged or collapsed. More than 40,000 business premises similarly affected. The official death toll stands over 18,000, with 44,000 people injured. They left at least 1,000 people dead. People threw themselves out windows and off balconies. More than 30 people were admitted to hospitals with broken bones. Schools were closed for the day, and there were still more bodies being found.**