The Sun Does Shine Timeline by Schwartz, Rachel Elizabeth

November 14, 2008

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I was born

May 2024

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Started working at Chick-fil-A

February 7th 2025

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Got a new car!

2011

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Moved to Auburn, AL

June 20, 2023

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Got my cat

June 2022

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Went to my first of many Charleston Mission Trips

October 2024

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First homecoming

November 2024

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Got my wisdom teeth removed

August 28, 1963

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Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech during the civil rights march on Washington, DC.

July 2nd, 1964

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President Johnson signs the civil rights act

July 20th, 1969

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Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr., become first me to land on the moon

February 1st, 1992

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Following the breakup of the Soviet Union in December of 1991, President Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin meet at Camp David and formally declare and end to the Cold War.

September 11th, 2001

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Two hijaked jetliners ram twin towers of World Trade Center in worst terrorist attack against U.S.; a third hijacked plane flies into the Pentagon, and a fourth crashes in rural Pennsylvania. More that 3,000 people die in the attacks.

March 19th, 2003

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War waged by U.S. against Iraq begins.

April 16th, 2007

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Virginia Tech Shooting: Male student kills 2 in Virginia Tech dorm. Two hours later, he kills 30 more and injures 15 in a classroom building before committing suicide. The shooting rampage is the most deadly in U.S. history.

April 15th, 2013

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Multiple bombs explode near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Three people are killed and more than 170 people are injured.

November 22nd, 1963

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John F. Kennedy is assassinated while riding in a motorcade with his wife.

January 22nd, 2010

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An explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico sends millions of gallons of oil into the sea. The spill kills 11 and is the largest off-shore spill in U.S. history as well as one of the largest spills in world history.

June 1st, 1956

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Anthony Ray Hinton was born

July 25th, 1985

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Hinton was wrongfully arrested for the murders of two fast-food restaurant managers, Thomas Wayne Vason and John Davidson, based on flawed forensic evidence.

May 13th, 1986

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Hinton takes a polygraph and passes

September 1988

reschwartz1 — 2025-04-02 17:18:54 UTC

Hinton is convicted and sentenced to death, the Court of Appeals confirms his conviction.

September 22nd, 2002

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Anthony Ray Hinton received word from a guard stating that his mother died

April 11th 1989

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Anthony and Perhacs appeal to the court but are ultimately denied

1999

reschwartz1 — 2025-04-02 17:31:24 UTC

Bryan Stevenson, a Harvard-educated lawyer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), became Hinton's lead attorney.

September 2013

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After being denied for appeal by every court in Alabama, Bryan Stevenson filed a petition for certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court and the statehood it’s response in November.

April 3rd 2015

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Anthony Ray Hinton was released from prison after spending nearly 30 years in solitary confinement on Alabama’s Death Row.

March 27 2018

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Anthony Ray Hinton publishes his book “The Sun Does Shine”.

April 4th, 2011

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My sister Amy was born

January 27th 2025

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Totaled my first car