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Alex Williams My birthday is March 16, 1995. I was born on a Thursday at 6:14 PM. I was 22 1/2 inches long and weighed 7 lbs. 9 oz. A funny story about the day I was born is that my mom wanted to have me on St. Patrick's Day and name me Patrick. That would have been stupid though.

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The weather March 16, 1995 was rainy. The high of the day was 73.9ºF. The low of the day was 39.9ºF.

March 16, 1802 - The U.S. Military was established. It is the first military school in the U.S. It is located in West Point, NJ. The academy was founded by congre  ss to teach young men about military science. 

March 16, 1926 - The world's first liquid-fueled rocket is launched. The rocket was launched in Auborn, Massachusetts. It was 10 feet tall and fueled by liquid oxygen and gasoline. 

March 16, 1968 - My Lai massacre takes place in Vietnam. American soldiers massacred between 200-500 unarmed civilians at My Lai, South Vietnam. Soldiers were advised the civilians were Viet Cong or helping Viet Cong. Although the civilians were unarmed, the troops acted with extreme brutality.

March 16, 1751 - The "Father of the Constitution" is born. Ja

mes Madison, who drafted the Constitution was born today. He also recorded the Constitutional Convention. Madison was the 4th president. 

March 16, 1978 - A supertanker wrecked off the French coast. The supertanker was the Amoco Cadiz. There were 68 million gallons of oil spilled in this wreck.

The population of the US was 262.8 million. That figure is as of July 1, 1995. One in four people lived in CA, TX, or NY during this time.

The president of the US during the time of my birth was William Clinton. The vice president was Albert Gore. Their term was from 1993 to 2001. They were in the Democratic Party. 

1995 - The World Series was between the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians. The braves won six games, thus winning the World Series. This was ttheir third world championship.

1995 - It was Super Bowl XXIX. The San Francisco 49ers against the San Diego Chargers. The 49ers beat the Chargers with a score of 49 - 26. The Super Bowl was played in Miami, Florida.

March 16, 1945 - The U.S. Navy military government declared Iwo Jima secured and the fighting was over. After all of the fighting, more than 6,000 Marines died. The Japanese lost 21,000 soldiers trying to defend it. The US started to attack the island in February of 1945 with planes, but all the fighting did'nt officially end until March 16.

March 16, 1916 - Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the man that built up the German navy before World War I and came up with the naval strategy which Germany wanted. Germany wanted this for the first two years of the war. On this day he gave his resignation to Kaiser Wilhelm II, who surprisingly accepted it.

March 16, 1988 - President Ronald Reagon ordered more then 3,000 troops into Honduras. This was to put pressure on the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. He was claiming that Nicaraguan soldiers had crossed its borders. This went with many of the other actions taken against Nicaragua during the time Reagan was in office.

March 16, 1865 - General William Sherman and his army was moving through the Carolinas. Confederate General William Hardee tried to stop one wing of Sherman's force that was commanded by Henry Slocum. But this was an easy win for Sherman's forces. The battle took place at Averasboro, North Carolina.

March 16, 1958 - Ford produced its 50,000,000th car. It was a Thunderbird. During this time, Ford averaged 1,000,000 cars per year.

1995 - The US gets a visit from the Pope. Pope John Paul II visited on the whirlwind tour. He stayed October 4-8.

March 16, 1995 - Mississippi ratified the Thirteenth Amendment. This made them the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The amendment was nationally ratified in 1865.

March 20, 1995 - There was an attack by chemical gas on a Japanese subway. The Aum Shinrikyo religious cult is responsible for the attack. They released sarin gas on 5 subway trains in Tokyo killing 5 and injuring 5.510.

May 23, 1995 - The Oklahoma City bombing occurred. It was a terrorist attack on Oklahoma City. The Alfred P. Murrah Federal building was imploded. September 4, 1995 - eBay was founded. eBay is an online auction site. It was founded by Pierre Omidyar's San Jose.

Soccer 1995 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XGPlsiOLqg

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