1990• Roald Dahl was born on September 13,

1916

• He graduated from Repton, a British public school

• In Washington D.C., he started writing short stories

• He publish his first children’s book, the Gremlins with Walt Disney

1990

• He publish his first children’s book, the Gremlins with Walt Disney

• Dahl received several awards, such as the Edgar Allan Poe award

• Dahl died on November 23, 1990

1991

• Paul Brown was born on September 7, 1908• Brown Attended Miami University, where

received a B.A. in education in 1930 • From 1932 to 1940, he coached his high school,

Alma Mater, to serve an 80-8-2 record• In 1946, Brown was asked to coach the AFCs

Cleveland Browns•

1991

• Browns won the championship that year and went to dominate the 50s

• In 1967, he was fired as head coach of the Cleveland Browns

• Brown left football for five years and was elected into the Hall of Fame

• Brown was founder and head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals

• In 1973, he married Mary Rightsell

1991

• Brown stepped down as head coach in 1976

• Brown died on August 5, 1991

1992

• Alex Haley was born on August 11, 1921• When Haley was born, his father was an

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 parents

• At age 18, he joined the U.S. Coast Guard and began a 22 year career in the service

1992

• He practice writing, at first only to cure boredom on the ship, and soon write to his shipmates’ wives and girlfriends

• Upon his retiring from Coast Guard, he decided to write books 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

1992

• When Haley finished the book, Roots, it became a national sensation . Roots won the 1977 National Book award and special Pulitzer Prize.

• Haley died on February 10, 1992• 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

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

• Campanella was the first catcher in the Major League Baseball

1993

• Wearing #39, when he stepped to the plate his first night as a Brooklyn Dodgers , he had hit a home run

• Tragedy struck in 1958 when a car accident left Campanella a quadriplegic

• In 1969, Campanella was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame

• Campanella died on June 26, 1993

1994

• Jeffrey Dahmer was born on may 21, 1960• He claims that his parents got divorced

made him kill people• Dahmer attended Ohio State University for

a semester but flunk out because of his alcohol problem

• Dahmer attended the U.S. Army , but got discharged in 1981 for his alchoholism

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1994

• He worked as a store 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

1994

• August 22, 1991, Dahmer was charged with 15 murder charges

• November 28, 1994, he died after an attack in prison by another inmate, Christopher Scarver, who claimed it was orders from God

1995

• Orenthal James Simpson,. Known as the juice, was born on July 9, 1947

• At age 13, he joined a gang, the Persian Warriors

• One fight landed him in the San Francisco Youth Guidance Center for about a week during 1962

• In 1968, OJ rushed for 1,709 yards and 22 TDs, which earned him the Heisman Trophy

1995

• He was the #1 draft pick in the 1969 draft, and got picked by the Buffalo Bills

• He set many records, including the first person to gain over 2,000 yards in season in 1973

• 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 found a glove with blood stains on it

1995• It had matched the glove that OJ had to kill

Goldman, so it leads to Simpson being guilty• In 1995, Simpson had to go to court and 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 last nine months and Simpson was not

guilty

1996

• Tupac Shakur, known as 2pac, was born on June 16, 1971

• Tupac was born Lesane Parish Crooks before the black panthers changed it to Tupac Shakur

• Tupac was named after an Indian chief.• “Tupac Amaru” means “Shining serpent and “Shakur”

means “thankful to God” in Arabic• As a teen, 2pac attended the Baltimore school for the

arts. • Where he took acting and dancing classes, including

ballet

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1996

• He joined the Oakland, California’s best hip-hop group called Digital Underground

• 2pac had scored a hit with the song “The Humpty Dance”.

• When he was twelve, he played Travis in “A Raisin in the Sun” in his first acting role

• While at Digital Underground, someone shove a gauge shotgun in Tupac’s face

1996

• While in prison, Tupac wrote his hit song “Dear Mama”

• In 1991, Tupac’s album, 2pacalypse Now, didn’t sell well as Tupac hoped so

• In 1994, He formed the group, Thug Life, with a few friends. Big Skye, Macadoshis, his half-brother Mopreme, and Rated R

• Tupac died on September 7, 1996

1997

• Steve Austin, known as Stone Cold, was born on December 16, 1964

• Before getting a football scholarship, he was inducted into the National Honor Society

• A year after graduating at 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

1997

• In June 1991, Austin beat Bobby Eaton for the WCW TV title

• By the end of 1995, Austin left ECW and signed with the WWF

• On January 8, 1996, Austin joined the World Wrestling Foundation (WWF)

• Austin used the name “The Ringmaster”, and managed by Ted DiBiase

• In 1997, Steve Austin won the WCW Championship

1998

• Calvin Broadus, known 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

• Snoop’s first rap was on Dr.Dre album called The Chronic

1998

• Snoop released his album in 1993 called doggystyle

• Through his albums, snoop became known for his laid-back rapping style and his name has became synonymous with gangster rap of the 90s

• Snoop doggy dogg later changed his name to snoop dogg when he left Death Row Records to sign with No Limits Records

1998

• Snoop dogg is one of the famous MCs in the West Coast and for being on of the producers of Dr.Dre’s most notable protégés

• Da game is to be sold, not to be Told was his first album at No Limits In 1998

• He released an autobiography in 2001 called Tha Godfather: The Trials, Times, and Hardcore Truths of snoop dogg

1999

• Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., known as Lil Wayne, was born on September 27, 1982

• When he was two year old, his mom was a chef and his dad abandoned him

• Wayne has been creating rhymes since he was eight years old

• At the age of nine, Wayne joined Young Money Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label

1999

• At age 13, Wayne accidently shot himself with a .44 caliber gun, missing his heart by two inches

• He was 15 years old when he had his daughter name Regginae

• In 1999, Wayne launched his solo career with Tha Block Is Hot.

• Since then, he released nine albums, many reaching platinum status

• On September 24, 2008, Wayne published his first blog for ESPN and continues to write for them

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