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​ ​Taylor Ramsey Birthday Project

I was Brought into this world at 8:52 Am on Tuesday May 9th of 1995. I was 19 inches long and 7lb 8 ozs, in the Chambersburg Hospital. The Weather was 63.9 degrees. The funny thing about it is that my mother was picking out my bedroom carpet when she went into labor.

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1. May 9, 1502: Christopher Columbus left Cadiz, Spain, on his fourth and final trip to the Western Hemisphere. He explored Central America, and discovered St. Lucia, the Isthmus of Panama, Honduras, and Costa Rica. Columbus left 52 Jewish families in Costa Rica.

2. May 9, 1791: Patriot politician and composer Francis Hopkinson dies On this day in 1791, Francis Hopkinson, signer of the Declaration of Independence and the first American secular composer, dies suddenly of a seizure in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hopkinson was born to an elite family in Philadelphia and graduated from the College of Philadelphia in 1757; he became an attorney four years later. 3. May 9, 1860: James Barrie, creator of //Peter Pan,// is born in Scotland on this day. Barrie attended the University of Edinburgh and worked as a reporter for the //Nottingham Journal// for two years after college. He moved to London in 1885 and became a freelance writer. His first collection of sketches, //Auld Licht Idylls,// was published in 1888 and became a success

4. May 9, 1887: Buffalo Bill's Wild West show opens.Buffalo Bill's Wild West show opens in London, giving Queen Victoria and her subjects their first look at real cowboys and Indians.A well-known scout for the army and a buffalo hunter for the railroads (which earned him his nickname), Cody had gained national prominence 15 years earlier thanks to a fanciful novel written by Edward Zane Carroll Judson.

5. May 9, 1915: Allies launch dual offensive on Western Front.On this day in 1915, Anglo-French forces fighting in World War I launch their first combined attempt to break through the heavily fortified German trench lines on the Western Front in France.

6. May 9, 1926: Byrd flies over the North Pole? It would have been the first time an aircraft flew over the top of the world.The pair had taken off from Spitsbergen, Norway, and reportedly covered the 1,545-mile trip to the pole and back in 15 hours and 30 minutes. Or the achievement, both men were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and acclaimed as national heroes.

7. May 9, 1945: Herman Goering is captured by the U.S. Seventh Army. On this day in 1945, Herman Goering, commander in chief of the Luftwaffe, president of the Reichstag, head of the Gestapo, prime minister of Prussia, and Hitler's designated successor is taken prisoner by the U.S. Seventh Army in Bavaria.  8. May 9, 1950 : L. Ron Hubbard publishes ‘Dianetics’On this day in 1950, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (1911-1986) publishes ‘Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health’. With this book, Hubbard introduced a branch of self-help psychology called Dianetics, which quickly caught on fire and, over time, morphed into a belief system boasting millions of subscribers

9. May 9, 1955: West Germany joins NATO. ten year after the Nazis were defeated in World War II, West Germany formally joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a mutual defense group aimed at containing Soviet expansion in Europe. This action marked the final step of West Germany's integration into the Western European defense system.Germany had been a divided nation since 1945.

10. april 17, 1995: Timothy McVeigh reportedly picked up a 20-foot Ryder truck from Elliott's Body Shop in Junction City. the truck exploded in the street in front of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building. About 90 minutes later, McVeigh was stopped by an Oklahoma state trooper for driving a vehicle without a license plate, who then arrested him on a firearms charge. Two days later he was charged in the bombing.

11. July 9, 1995: O.J. Simpson Born: July 9, 1947 // Football RB // won Heisman Trophy in 1968 at USC; ran for 2,003 yards in NFL in 1973; All-Pro 5 times; MVP in 1973; rushed for 11,236 career yards; TV analyst and actor after career ended; arrested June 17, 1994 as suspect in double murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman; acquitted on Oct. 3, 1995 by a Los Angeles jury in criminal trial but forced to make financial reparations after losing wrongful death suit. 12. May 9, 1997: Cunanan continues to do murder missions. The William Reese, 45, a cemetery caretaker is found in Pennsville, New Jersey. He had been shot with a Golden Saber right in the head.

13. May 9, 2001: Police Officers to Be Prosecuted For the May 9th Disaster. The policemen at the center of the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster of May 9, 2001 are to be put before court on provisional charges of murder and manslaughter. A Government White Paper on the Okudzeto Commission sighted by the “Public Agenda”, holds the policemen culpable for the tragedy which claimed 126 lives and injured over 300 other spectators during the fourth week league match between arch rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko

14. May 9, 2001: Soccer fans trampled in Ghana. During a soccer match at Accra Stadium in Ghana, an encounter between rowdy fans and police results in a big fight that ends up killing 126 people. This tragedy was the worst ever sports-related disaster in Africa’s history in that time.

15. Population: United States or World. The US population last rcorded was in july 2008 was 304,059,724. And the last recorded record for the worl was in 2008 and was 6,692,030,277.

16. Science event or invention: 2003, Scientists release 'Eye of God' nebula picture.ESA/NASA scientists let out one of their biggest and most detailed images from the Hubble telescope of the Helix nebula. The Helix nebula is the closest planetary nebula to our solar system. This composite photograph is the most popular celestial pictures and was released to celebrate Astronomy Day.

17. Science event or invention: Howard Carter 9 May 1874 The Tomb of Tutankhamun. On 26 November 1922 Howard Carter makes the famous "tiny breach in the top left hand corner" of the tomb doorway accompanied by Lord Carnarvon and his daughter Lady Evelyn Herbert. On 16 February 1923 they opened the sealed doorway leading to the burial chamber which contained the sarcophagus of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun with its fabulous golden mask and solid gold coffin.

18. President and Vice-President:  President=Bill Clinton, William Jefferson Clinton, the young President from Hope, Arkansas, succeeded where no other Democrat had since FDR: he was reelected to a second term. Clinton also defied his critics by surviving an array of personal scandals, turning the greatest fiscal deficit in American history into a surplus, effectively using American force to stop the murderous "ethnic cleansing" wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, and presiding over the greatest level of economic prosperity since the early 1960s. Vice-President= Albert Gore, Jr., was born in Washington, D.C., on March 31, 1948, to a highly distinguished family. His father, Albert Gore, Sr., was a powerful Senator from Tennessee who spent thirty-two years in Congress. His mother was the second woman to graduate from Vanderbilt Law School, and his older sister was one of the founding members of the Peace Corps. From an early age, his father's career put Al in close proximity to powerful political figures. He met Richard Nixon, spent time in his father's Senate office, and eavesdropped on phone calls between his father and John F. Kennedy. He also volunteered for his father's campaigns until the elder Gore lost his Senate seat in 1970. 19.Winner of world series and scores:  Alex Rodriguez hit the go-ahead double in a three-run ninth inning as the New York Yankees beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-4 Sunday night to move within one win of their 27th World Series title.

20. Winner of super bowl and score: Date Played: January 29, 1995 Teams: San Francisco 49ers vs. San Diego Chargers Winner: 49ERS Final Score: 49-26 Location: Miami, Florida There were 74107 people in attendance at Joe Robbie Stadium for the 29th Super Bowl game and it is estimated that another 83.4 million more football fans watched from home or other party locations around the world while tuning into ABC.


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