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This is my 8th grade exit project. You will learn what had happened in the 90s. For example you will learn when people died, made their first album, and won championships. Dahl died on November 7, 1990. Roald Dahl was born on September 13, 1916. Dahl had graduated from Repton, a British school. Dahl avoided University education and joined an expedition toNewfoundland. Roald enlisted in the Royal Air Force when WWII broke out. Flying as a fighter pilot, he was seriously injured in a crash landing inLibya. While inWashingtonD.C., Dahl started writing short stories. Dahl received several awards, such as the Edgar Allen Poe award. Dahl short stories have been translated into many languages and have been bestsellers across the world. Paul Brown died on August 5, 1991.Paul Brown was born on September 7, 1908. Brown coached winning teams in high school, college, armed forces, and professional football teams. Brown was an undersized quarterback atMiami University,Ohio, where he received a B.A. in education in 1930. From 1932 to 1940 he coached his high school, Alma Mater, atMassillon,Ohio, to serve an 80-8-2 record. He became head coach atOhioStateUniversityin 1941. From 1944 to 1945, Brown was head coach of theGreat Lakesnaval team. In 1946, Brown was asked to coach the AFCs Cleveland Brown and the team was named after him. Brown won the Championship that year and went on to dominate the decade of the 50s. In 1967, he was fired has head coach of the Cleveland Browns. Brown was founder of the Cincinnati Bengals. After Brown left football for five years and was elected into the Hall of Fame in 1972. In 1973, Brown married his former secretary, Mary Rightsell. In 1976, Brown stepped down as head coach for the Bengals and stayed as the team’s president. Alex Haley died on February 10, 1992. Alex Haley was born on August 11, 1921. When Alex was born, his father was a WWI veteran and his mother was a school teacher. Growing up, Haley became interested in his ancestry while listening to colorful stories told by his family. At age 18, Haley joined the U.S. Coast Guard and began a 22 year career in the service. He practices his writing, at first only to cure boredom on the ship, and soon writing to his shipmates’ wives and girlfriends. Upon his retiring from the Coast Guard, he decided to write book and be a journalist full-time. After the book, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, he retold the story of his ancestors’ journey of slaves and how the reached their freedom. When Haley finished the book, Roots, it became a national sensation. Roots won the 1977 National Book award and special Pulitzer Prize. The Coast Guard commissioned the U.S.C.G.C Alex Haley in his honor, the ship was the first military vessel named after a journalist. Roy Campanella died on June 26, 1993.Roy Campanella was born on November 19, 1921. Campanella began playing semiprofessional baseball on the Philadelphia Sandlots when he was 13. Campanella skills garnered the attention of the Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey. Attempting to ingrate Major League Baseball (MLB), Rickey signed Jackie Robinson, Don Newcombe, and Campanella. Campanella was the first black people to break the colour bar. This made him the first catcher in the MLB. Wearing #39, when he stepped up to the plate his first night playing as a Brooklyn Dodger, and hit a home run. Also that night he hit a double and two singles. Tragedy struck in 1958 when a car left Campanella a quadriplegic. Campanella wrote his autobiography, It’s good to be alive, in which he describes the drastic changes his accident imposed on his life. In 1969, Campanella was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Arguable one of the greatest catchers to ever play the game, there has been dozens of book about Campanella. November 28, 1994, he died after an attack in prison by another inmate, Christopher Scarver, who claimed it was orders from god. Jeffrey Dahmer was born on May 21; 1960.He was a happy child until he was six years old, when some minor surgery, with his brother, seemed to affect him. He claims that his parents divorce made him kill people. After high school he picked up a guy name Steven Hicks, had a beer, had intimate relationship, and then killed him. Dahmer attendedOhioStateUniversityfor a semester but flunk out because of his alcohol problem. Dahmer attended the U.S. Army but got discharged in 1981 for his alcoholism. He spent time inMiami,Floridabut couldn’t hold a job so he had to stay with his dad inBath,Ohio. He worked as a stock clerk at the Ambrosia Chocolate Factory. On March 25, 1989, Dahmer slaughtered victim Anthony Sears. After one year of jail time, Dahmer death parade resumed with Edward Smith in June 1990. After that he killed six more people, Raymond Smith, Ernest Miller, David Thomas, Curtis Straughter, Errol Lindsey, and Anthony Hughes. August 22, 1991, Dahmer was charged with 15 murder charges. On June 12, 1994, it was a double murder of Nicole Brown, 35, and Ronald Goldman, 25, at approximately 10 P.M. During a police interrogation of Simpson, they had found a glove with blood stains on it. It had matched the glove that OJ had to kill Goldman, so it leads to find Simpson being guilty. In 1995, Simpson had to go to court. The jury intended for a trial. Near at the end of the trial, Cochran produced one of the gloves and requested that Simpson put it on his hand. The glove didn’t fit. The trial lasted nine months and he was not guilty. Orenthal James Simpson, know as OJ, or the Juice, was born on July 9, 1947. His aunt gave him the name Orenthal, which was the name of a French actor she liked. At age two, he contracted rickets, legs skinny, bow-legged, and pigeon toed. At age 13, he joined a gang, the Persian Warriors. One fight landed him in the SF Youth Guidance Center for about a week during 1962. He returned to football in high school before an outstanding career atUniversityofCalifornia. In 1968, OJ rushed for 1,709 yards and 22 TDs, which earned him the Heisman Trophy. He was the #1 draft pick in the 1969 draft, and got picked by the Buffalo Bills. He set many records. He was the first person to gain over 2,000 yards in one season in 1973. Tupac died on September 7, 1996.Tupac Shakur, know as 2pac, was born on June 16, 1971. Tupac was born Lesane Parish Crooks before the black panthers changed it to Tupac Amaru Shakur. Tupac was named after an Inca Indian chief. “Tupac Amaru” means “shining serpent” and “Shakur” means “Thankful to God” in Arabic. As a teen, Shakur attended theBaltimoreschool for the arts. Where he took acting and dancing classes, including ballet. He joined theOakland,Californiabest hip-hop group Digital Underground. This earlier had scored a hit with the song “The Humpty Dance”. When Tupac was twelve, He played Travis in “A Raisin in the Sun” in his first acting role. While he was at Digital Underground, someone once shoved a 12 gauge shotgun in Tupac’s face because of a dispute over a woman at the Martin Luther King Jr. Festival. Tupac said that his mom ties with the black panthers; the FBI was always after him and his family. While in prison, Tupac wrote his hit song “Dear Mama”. Shakur soon moved in with a neighbor and started selling drugs and hustling on the streets. In 1991, Tupac album 2pacalypse now didn’t sell well as Tupac hoped so. In 1994, He formed the group, Thug Life, with a few of his friends. Including Big Skye, Macadoshis, his half-brother Mopreme, and Rated R. In 1997, Steve Austin won the WCW Championship. Steve Austin, know as Stone Cold, was born on December 16, 1964. Before getting a college football scholarship, he was inducted into the National Honor Society. At age 25,Austinjoined a new wrestling school. A year after he graduated the new wrestling school, he went to the United States Wrestling Association. During his tour, he earned $20 a fight and lived in his car. On June 1991,Austinbeat Bobby Eaton for the WCW TV title inBirmingham,AL. At starrcade ’93 inCharlotte,NC,Austindefeated Dustin Rhodes in a best of 3 falls match for theU.S.title.Austindefended theU.S.title again against Ricky “the dragon” steamboat at the 1994 bash at the beach.Austinsuffered a serious tricep muscle tear during a tour inJapan. By the end of 1995,Austinleft ECW and signed with the WWF. On January 8, 1996,Austinjoined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).Austinused the name “The Ringmaster”, and managed by Ted DiBiase.Austindisliked his new nickname, soAustinthen-wife, Jeannie Clark, then was the inspiration for the “Stone Cold”, after she advised him for tea before it came “Stone Cold. Snoop dogg Da game is to be sold, not to be Told was his first album at No Limits in 1998. Calvin Broadus, know as snoop dogg, was born on October 20, 1971. Snoop dogg got the nickname from his mother because she thought that he look like the character in the peanuts cartoon. After graduating high school, snoop got arrested several times for drug possession. Snoops first rap was on Dr.Dre album, The Chronic. Snoop released his first album in 1993 called doggystyle. Through his albums, snoop became know for laid-back rapping style and his name has become synonymous with gangster rap of the 90s. Snoop doggy dogg had later changed his name when he left Death Row Records to sign with No Limit Records. Snoop was affiliated with crips, aU.S.gang, and several of his cousins and other artist tried to collaborate with him. Snoop dogg is one of the famous MCs in the West Coast and for being one of the producers Dr.Dre’s most notable protégés. He Released an autobiography in 2001 called Tha Doggfather: the trials, times, and Hardcore Truths of Snoop Dogg. Lil Wayne launched his solo career with Tha block is hot in 1999Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., know as Lil Wayne, was born on September 27, 1982. When he was two years old, his mother had worked as a chef, and his father had abandoned him. Lil Wayne has been creating rhymes since he was eight years old. St the age of nine,Waynejoined Young Money Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label. At age 13,Wayneaccidently shot himself with a .44 caliber gun, missing his heart by two inches. His favorite band from childhood was Nirvana.Waynebriefly enrolled in an undergraduate degree program at theUniversityofHouston, where he majored in Psychology. He relocated toHouston,TXafter being displaced by Hurricane Katrina. He was 15-years old when he had his daughter, Regginae. Since then, he released nine albums, many reaching platinum status. On September 24, 2008,Waynepublished his first blog for ESPN and continues to write for them.