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This is the 8th grade exit project. While you explore this project you will learn about sports, crimes, and justice in the 1990’s. In 1990 general Manuel Noriega surrendered to the Vatican Embassy in Panama City on January 3, 1990.Manuel Antonio Noriega was born February11, 1. He was born in Panama City, Panama in a poor family of Columbian extortion. He went to one of the top high schools in panama. He was awarded a scholarship to the Chorrillos military school in Lima. Noriega was born to an accountant and the accountant’s maid. Colonel Omar torrijos liked Noriega and obtained him for the command of Chiriquí, the country’s westernmost province. In October 1968, torrijos and Noriega led a military takeover of the government of president arnulfo arions. In1983 Manuel Noriega unified the armed forces into the Panamanian defense forces. Before he was caught Noriega was found hiding in the Vatican nunciature, a religious office. In June 1987 Noriega’s former chief of staff, Colonel Roberto Diaz Herrera, stated that Noriega had fixed the 1984 election and ordered the killing of Hugo Spadafora, who had publicly accused Noriega of drug trafficking. But his jail term was reduced. Having served some 17 years, Noriega completed his sentence on sept.9, 2007. In 1992 in a U.S federal court, he was convicted of cocaine trafficking, racketeering, and money laundering. He received another 40year sentence. In 1991 the retirement of African American Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall led George W. Bush to nominate Thomas as his replacement and he was narrowly confirmed in 1991. Clarence Thomas was born on June 23, 1948 in Pin Point savannah, Georgia. He served in the administrations of Reagan and George H.W. Bush. He grew up fatherless and later financial struggles forced his mother to give him to her father and stepmother. In 1968 he went to HOLY CROSS College in Massachusetts. After going to HOLY CROSS he went to Yale university law school. President George Bush tapped Thomas to replace retiring Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall. When Thomas was only 7 years old the family’s house burned down. Thomas is the only Supreme Court justice to have served as grand marshal at the Daytona 500.Thomas has spent many hours helping black youths and arranging financial aid for them to attend private schools. Like every human being Thomas has a personal life too he is a NASCAR fanatic and enjoys watching basketball and football he’s a life long Dallas cowboys fan. He likes to drive his black corvette zr-1, and traveling around the country in his 40 foot custom- built bus. On March 3, 1991 after a high speed chase two officers pulled Rodney king out of his car and beat him brutally and amateur camera man George holiday caught it on tape. Rodney King was born on April 9, 1965.Rodney king gained national fame when his 1991 beating by Los Angeles police was caught on video tape. The officer’s acquittal in April 1992 triggered riots in south central, Los Angeles. More than 50 people were killed and more than 4000 were injured 4,500 were arrested for rioting, looting, and arson. In august of 1992 two of the officers were found guilty while the other two were acquitted. The reason Rodney king got pulled over was because he was detected speeding by the CHP fearing that his probation for a robbery offense would be revoked because of the traffic violation. On January 26.1993 Vaclav Havel was elected president of the Czechs republic. Vaclav Havel was born on October, 5 1936. He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He was president of Czechoslovakia from 89-92 and when the country became independent he was president from 1993-2003. Havel was a prominent participant in the liberal reforms of 1968. He was the country’s first non communist leader since 1948. Havel was the son of a wealthy restaurateur. Later Havel’s father’s property was taken by communist government of Czechoslovakia in 1998. Havel’s parents were bourgeois. Because he was the son of Bourgeois parents Havel was denied easy access to education but managed to finish high school on a university level. During the 1970’s and 80’s he was repeatedly arrested and served four years in prison for his activities on behalf of human rights in Czechoslovakia. Havel was not allowed to study the humanities in secondary schools. As a kid and an adult Havel liked and wrote plays. Havel was elected president of the Czechs republic on January, 26, 1993. On April, 8 1994 Cobain returned from a tour to Seattle and was found with self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Kurt Cobain was born on February 20, 1967. He was born in Aberdeen, Washington. In 1988 he started the grunge band Nirvana. Cobain started doing drugs in his mid teens and started doing heroin in the early 90’s. In 1992 Cobain left his fathers place and bounced from relative to relative for several months. Cobains parents divorced when he was 9 and he went to live with his father. Cobains life changed when he started to listen to punk rock music. In 1985 Cobain was arrested for spray painting buildings in town with some of his friends. His friends got away but he was caught and taken to the police station. Cobain met his match in 1990 her name is Courtney Love. The single “smells like teen spirit” like many Nirvana tracks modulated between the soft and the thrashing. Kurt says the drug heroin provides escape and some relief for his chronic stomach problems. In March 1994 while Nirvana was on tour in Europe, Cobain overdosed and lay in a coma for 20hours he underwent a series of detoxes and interventions and by March 30 he had checked in to exodus recovery center in Los Angeles but Cobain left the facility the next day and went missing for a week in early April. He returned to Seattle where his body was found on April, 8 1994 with a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. On January, 29 1995 the Super bowl was San Francisco vs. San Diego. San Francisco went on to when 49 to 26. Jim Harbaugh was the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers. The head coach of the San Diego Chargers was Bobby Ross. San Francisco’s Steve Young was the MVP of the 1995 super bowl. San Francisco’s star wide receiver Jerry Rice came into the game with Flu like symptoms. In the third quarter, chargers rookie Andre Coleman returned a kickoff 98yards for a touchdown. Super bowl XXIX took place at Miami’s Joe Robbie Stadium. The 49ers became the first team to win five super bowls. San Francisco scored 1:24 into the game with a 44-yard touchdown pass by Steve Young. Young threw a record six touchdowns he became the fifth player in history to win the NFL MVP and super bowl MVP in the same season. Steve Young had 51 yard touchdown bomb with 10:05 left in the first quarter. The Chargers responded with a 78 yard touchdown drive. In the third quarter the 49ers remained ahead 42-18. The 49ers came into the super bowl with a 10 game win streak. On September, 7 1996 after leaving the Mike Tyson vs. Bruce seldom fight in Las Vegas Tupac was shot 4 times in the chest by an assailant in a white Cadillac. Tupac Shakur was born on June 16, 1971 in New York, New York. Tupac’s mother was a Black Panther activist. As a youth he explored acting by becoming a member of the 127th street ensemble, a Harlem based Theater Company.As a teen Tupac went to the Baltimore school of arts where he took acting and dance classes including ballet. He discovered rap and began performing as MC New York. In the late 1980’s Shakur and his family moved to the west coast there he joined the Oakland, California based hip hop group digital underground. In 1973 when a man named legs moved into Tupac’s house he introduced Tupac’s mother to crack. Tupac released his first album on November 12, 1991. On January 17, 1992 Tupac made his big screen debut the name of the movie was called “Juice”. In 1994 Tupac was shot 5 times and robbed for over $40,000 dollars worth of jewelry in New York’s Quad studios. On February 14, 1995 he was sentenced to 4 and a half years and serves time in New York’s Rikers Island Penitentiary.Shortly after Suge Knight belled Pac out of jail. On April 25, 1996 all eyes on me goes Quintuple Platinum. On September 7, 1996 after leaving the Mike Tyson vs. Bruce Seldon fight in Las Vegas Tupac was shot for times in the chest by an assailant in a white Cadillac. On March 9th 1997 Biggie was leaving a night club and when he was stopped by a red light an assailant pulled up beside him and shot him seven times in the chest and the abdomen. Christopher Wallace aka Biggie Smalls was born on May 21, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in Bedford Stuyvesant. By the age of seventeen she had dropped out of high school. Biggie died over ongoing east coast west coast rap war. He got his nickname biggie smalls from the 1975 film “again let’s do it”. In 1995 biggies album ready to die sold 2 million copies. In 1995 the single “one more chance” was named Billboards rap single of the year. In 1995 he was arrested for assault and robbery. On august 4, 1994 he married Faith Evans. On March 18th Biggies funeral is held in Brooklyn, NY. Before signing with bad boy biggie smalls developed a friendship with Tupac Shakur. Biggie died at Cedars- Sinai hospital. At the funeral he wore a double breasted white suit with a matching hat and a cream colored silk shirt and a blue grey tie. On April 19 1998 in Oklahoma City a car bomb exploded outside of federal office building, collapsing walls and floors.168 People were killed including 19 children and 1 person who died in a rescue effort. Over 220 buildings sustained damage. Terry Nichols was later convicted in the antigovernment plot to avenge the branch Davidian Standoff in Waco, Texas exactly 2 years earlier. Terry Nichols was born April 1, 1955. He was born in Lapeer, Michigan. Terry Nichols became one of America’s most infamous domestic terrorists for his role in the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City, Which killed 168 people. In 1980 he met a lady named Lana Walsh while buying some land near Decker, Michigan they soon became a couple and married the next year. Then in 1982 they had first son. In 1988 he joined the army. He went to fort Benning in Georgia for basic training where he met timothy McVeigh. On the morning of April 19, 1995 timothy McVeigh drove a rental truck to the Alfred p. Murrah federal building and parked it outside the vehicle contained a 4,000 pound bomb made of fertilizer and diesel and racing fuel. The bomb went off around 9.am a time when most people already arrived for work. In June 1998 Nichols received a sentence of life in prison without opportunity for parole. On April 20, 1999 Eric Harris and Dylan klebold shot up Columbine high school leaving 15 people dead including themselves. Eric Harris was born on April 9, 1981 in Wichita Kansas. His dad Wayne Harris held two different positions while he was in the air force as a transport pilot. From all accounts Eric was a normal guy when he lived in Plattsburgh. The Harris family moved from New York to Littleton, Colorado in 1993. Eric went to ken caryl middle school, where he met Dylan Klebold in the seventh Grade they became close friends and spent a lot of time together. Eric started to attend Columbine high school in 1995. Eric met brooks brown on the school bus they rode together. Eric Harris, Dylan klebold, Brooks brown, and Nate Dykeman became a good group of friends. After Eric and Dylan killed thirteen students they killed there selves in the library a total of 15 people were killed.
 * The 1990’s **