The shooting of Michael Brown took place on August 9, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri, United States. Brown was an 18-year-old African American male who died after he was shot several times by Darren Wilson, a 28-year-old white police officer. Several witnesses corroborate the officer’s account of the Michael Brown shooting. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/22/michael-brown-shooting_n_6030220.html Brown did not have weapons or a criminal record.
There were protests and riots in Ferguson after the shooting. There was a lot of media coverage in the United States. People have been talking about how Brown being killed relates to racism in the United States. They have pointed out that most of the police in Ferguson are white, while most of the people who live in Ferguson are African-American. They have also accused the media of being biased against Brown and the people protesting his killing.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation also known as the (FBI) opened a civil rights investigation of the shooting. President Obama, Rand Paul, Hillary Clinton, Al Sharpton and Bernie Sanders released statements about Brown's death.
A petition asking for a law named after Mike Brown that would require all police to wear a camera has had over 132,000 signatures.
Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot Brown, went on administrative leave. A jury chose not to legally accuse Wilson of the killing. He resigned on November 29, 2014.
Brown's funeral happened at the Friendly Temple Baptist Church on August 25. At the MTV Video Music Awards, Common asked the audience to have a moment of silence "for Mike Brown and for peace in this country and in the world".
Geeta Tandon
Geeta Tandon is an Indian stunt performer. She became known after appearing in season 5 of "". She has been called "one of Bollywood's leading stuntwomen."
Tandon was born in Mumbai in a Punjabi family and raised in very harsh environment. She lost her parents at very early age. She was married off at age of 15 and gave birth to two children.
Tandon completed her matriculation studies and started her career as a dancer. She was offered work as stunt woman due to her attitude. She performed stunts for actors such as Deepika Padukone, Parineeti Chopra, Katrina Kaif and Bipasha Basu in films such as Chennai Express, Hasee Toh Phasee, Ragini MMS, Singh Saab The Great and Lamhaa.
Tandon became famous after she appeared on the show "". Tandon stated that she never faced a camera before during her career.
Jackie Burroughs
Jacqueline "Jackie" Burroughs (February 2, 1939 – September 22, 2010) was an English-born Canadian actress. She played Amelia Evans in "Anne of Green Gables". She also played Hetty in "Road to Avonlea".
Burroughs was born in Lancashire, England. She died from stomach cancer at 71 in Toronto.
Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوى, October 27, 1931 – March 21, 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician and psychiatrist. She wrote 47 books about the problems of women in Egypt. She was a Marxist.
Saadawi was born in the small village of Kafr Tahla. When Saadawi was six years old her clitoris was cut off by a midwife at her home. Saadawi graduated as a medical doctor in 1955 from Cairo University.
In 1958 her first novel, "Memoirs of a Woman Doctor", was published. Her first non-fiction work was published in 1972. Her best known work "Woman at Point Zero" was published in 1975. In 1981 Saadawi helped publish a feminist magazine, "Confrontation". Her memoir was published in 1986. El-Saadawi worked as a visiting professor at Duke University between 1993 and 1994.
Saadawi had three husbands. She had one son with her third husband Sherif Hatata. They divorced in 2010.
Saadawi died on 21 March 2021 at a hospital in Cairo, aged 89.
Jay Adams
Jay Adams (February 3, 1961 – August 14, 2014) was an American skateboarder. He became known as one of the original members of Z-Boys skateboarding team. He was known as "The Original Seed" of the sport. He was thought to be one of the most influential skateboarders of all time.
Adams died from a massive heart attack in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico, aged 53.
Margaret Field
Margaret Field (May 10, 1922 – November 6, 2011) was an American actress. She played two different defendants in CBS' "Perry Mason". She also acted in several movies.
Field was born in Houston, Texas. She was the mother of actress Sally Field. She died from cancer in Malibu, California on her daughter's 65th birthday.
George V. Hansen
George Vernon Hansen (September 14, 1930 – August 14, 2014) was an American politician. He was a Republican. He represented the state of Idaho in the United States House of Representatives for 14 years. Hansen represented Idaho's 2nd district from 1965 to 1969 and again from 1975 to 1985.
In 1974, Hansen became the first member of Congress convicted of breaking a 1971 campaign finance law. A federal judge found him guilty of not publicly telling all his loans and profits. The judge sentenced Hansen to pay a fine.
In 1983, Hansen was indicted by a federal grand jury on four charges of filing false financial disclosure statements. He was accused of hiding more than $245,000 in loans and $87,000 in profits from buying and selling silver. He traded using his wife's name to hide the crimes.
In 1984 Hansen was convicted of violating the 1978 Ethics in Government Act. He did not publicly tell about $334,000 in personal loans to his campaign. He was sentenced to six months in prison and fined $40,000. Appealing all the way to the US Supreme Court, his conviction was vacated and the fine returned to him.
In 1992, Hansen was in prison again. He stole money from two Idaho banks and 100 individuals in a $30 million investment scheme. He was sentenced to four years in prison.
Hansen died at a hospital in Pocatello, Idaho, aged 83.
Giovanni Francesco Romanelli
Giovanni Francesco Romanelli ( born 1610–1662) was an Italian painter of the Baroque style.
Romanelli was an Italian painter of who trained in Rome in the workshop of Pietro da Cortona. Cortona was the leading painter of the time.
Orval H. Hansen
Orval Howard Hansen (August 3, 1926 – November 2, 2017) was an American politician. He was a member of the Republican Party. He was a former congressman from Idaho. He served three terms in the House from 1969 to 1975, representing the state's 2nd district.
Hansen died on November 2, 2017 in Boise, Idaho of complications from skin cancer at the age of 91.
Paul Findley
Paul Findley (June 23, 1921 – August 9, 2019) was an American politician. He was a United States Representative from Illinois. He represented its 20th District.
A member of the Republican, he was first elected in 1960. Findley lost his seat in 1982 to future United States Senator Dick Durbin. He was a cofounder of the Council for the National Interest, a Washington, D.C. advocacy group, and a board member of If Americans Knew.
Findley died on August 9, 2019 at a hospital in Jacksonville, Illinois from congestive heart failure at the age of 98.
Chevrolet Cavalier
The Chevrolet Cavalier was a compact car made from 1982 to 2005 by General Motors. The vehicle's design was changed several times. The Cavalier also donned a twin car the Pontiac Sunbird, replaced by the Pontiac Sunfire in 1995.
The station wagon was sold until 1994. The 1995-2005 Cavalier received a Poor rating in the IIHS' frontal off-set crash test. Meaning, head, neck and leg injury risk were extremely high. In 2005 Chevrolet Cavalier was replaced by the Cobalt in the United States and the Chevrolet Optra in Canada & Mexico.
Estadio Azteca
The Estadio Azteca () is a football stadium in Mexico City, Mexico. Club América and the Mexico national football team play in this stadium.
This stadium can hold 87,000 people. It is the largest stadium in Mexico. It used to hold 105,000 people, and at that time it was the former largest football-specific stadium in the world.