Transcript Slide 1 - hjm

Nelson Mandela Freed
• Mandela Was freed on Feb. 11, 1990
• He was arrested on charges of Treason,
and Sabotage
• He was supposed to be sentenced to life
but, he was only in prison for 27 years
The Soviet Union Falls
• The Union collapsed into 15 different
countries
• The Union was destroyed by the Cold War
• The U.S. was happy when the Soviet
Union fell
Manuel Noriega Arrested on Drug
Trafficing Charges
• He was dictator of Panama from 1983 to
1989
• He was sentenced 30 years of prison time
• He was also sentenced 7 years in France
Lawrence Taylor Retires
• Lawrence Taylor retired after 13 years in
the NFL
• He was named All-Pro 6 times and voted
to the Pro Bowl 10 during those 13 years
• Taylor was only 1 of 3 defensive players to
be named the NFL’s MVP
The O.J. Simpson Trials
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The trials lasted 8 months
He was charged with 1st degree murder
He was found innocent
He was found guilty in his civil trials
Sarin Gas Attack
• Only 12 people were killed in the attack
• Sarin gas was first tested back in NaziGermany
• Sarin is 500 times more toxic than cyanide
• A pinhead size of sarin gas can kill an
adult
Tupac Shakur shot dead
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He was shot 6 times in the chest
He died 6 days later from the wounds
His killer was never caught
Days after he was cremated, some of his
posse smoked his ashes with weed
Heaven’s Gate Cult Commits Mass
Suicide
• 39 people committed suicide
• It took 3 days for all 39 members to die
• Later that same year, 2 former members
committed suicide bringing the death toll to
41
1998: Google was Founded
• Google was founded by 2 PhD students at
Stanford University
• Google was a private company until 2004
• Google’s original name is Backrub
• It’s name didn’t become Google until 1999
7.4 Earthquake hits Turkey
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The closest city to the epicenter was Izmit
The earthquake lasted 45 seconds
18,000 people were found dead
The quake was followed by more than
1300 aftershocks