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MARCH 24 — 1989 Exxon Spill; 1977 President Carter and Fidel Castro go fishing; 1998 School shooting in Jonesboro; 1976 Happy Birthday Peyton Manning
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MARCH 24
1989 A very ugly oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound in Alaska when oil tanker Exxon Valdez heading for Long Beach, California, ran aground and spilled 11M to 38M gallons of crude oil over the next few days. It’s considered to be one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters, and was the largest in US waters until the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in terms of volume actually spilled. This led to the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. OPA set a schedule for the gradual phase in of a double hull design, providing an additional layer between the oil tanks and the ocean. If this had been in place, it is believed that it would have cut the spill by 60%.
1977-Jimmy Carter and Fidel Castro went fishing.
Figuratively speaking, I mean. The Peanut Farmer and El Jefe starting lightening things up a little bit. Carter just got into office, but Castro had been in since 1959, and, although he was feared, he was also admired for remaining independent from the “Colossus of the North”, the U.S.
It was so adorable! They were singing Koombaya and doing trust falls! Naturally this peace didn’t last too long. After the fall of the pro-American Niceraguan leaders and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Cousin Hot decided to listen to his advisors about being too soft on his foreign diplomacy, and started getting tougher on Castro by criticizing Cuba for its role in the Angolan civil war, and warned Castro about allowing Soviet troops into Cuba. Castro responded by taking tens of thousands of Cubans from jail and asylums and dropped them off in South Florida. It was a mess. And speaking of lunatics…
1998-School shooting in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Mitch Johnson, 13 years of age at the time, and Andrew Golden, age 11. The following people are no longer alive because of these guys; remember their names. Natalie Brooks, age 11. Paige Ann Herring, age 12. Stephanie Johnson, age 12. Britteney Ryan, age 10, all students, plus Shannon Wright, age 32, teacher.
Johnsons’s parents divorced when he was seven and he and his brother moved in with his mom and stepdad, who said he was a good kid; part of the Central Baptist Church youth choir and the youth group at the Revival Tabernacle Church. His attorney said he was sexually abused at the ages of 6 and 7 at a day care, and Johnson allegedly molested a three year old girl when he was twelve. Golden came from a more stable household and had a good relationship with his parents, grandparents, and great grandmother. The two kids met and became friends in middle school and started bullying other kids.
Then, on the night before the massacre, Golden assisted Johnson in loading his mother’s Dodge Caravan with camping supplies, snack foods, seven weapons including two semi-0atomatic rifles, one bolt-action rifle, and four handguns, which they stole from Golden’s grandfather’s house, and 3500 rounds of ammo. While in class later that day, golden asked to be excused from class, pulled a fire alarm and then ran to join Johnson in a wooded area 100 yards away from the school’s gyum. As the students filed out of the school, the boys opened fire and killed the people I mentioned and wounded ten more.
Since they couldn’t be tried as adults, Johnson spent seven years in prison until 2—5, and Golden spent 9 and got out in 2007. Since they’re release, they’re still losers who get into trouble with the law for having firearms and pot. In 2008, getting ready to spend another 4 years in prison for a stolen credit card, the judge told Johnson that he hadn’t taken advantage of his chance to go straight, and that “No matter your sentence, you still have a life, those killed in 1998 do not.”
Finally 1976 – Happy Birthday to NFL Denver Bronco Peyton Manning! Omaha!
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