Friday, January 4

Good morning!

Today we will continue to work on Transportation Revolution power point

Current Events
Local mayors briefed about taking down remaining TZ Bridge with explosives - LoHud

NY TImes shows how 6 New Yorkers are living past age 85 - NYT

Today in History

• 1885

  Dr. William W. Grant of Davenport, Iowa, performed what is thought to be the first appendectomy.

• 1896

  Utah was admitted as 45th state in the United States.

• 1904

  In Gonzales v. Williams, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that citizens of Puerto Rico are not aliens and can enter the U.S. freely.

• 1948

  Burma (Myanmar) gained independence from Great Britain.

• 1951

  During the Korean War, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces captured the city of Seoul.

• 1965

  President Johnson outlined his "Great Society" in his State of the Union address.

• 1999

  The U.S. Mint began distributing the 50 State Quarters.

• 2007

  California Democrat Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Thursday, January 3

Good morning!

Today we will look at Transportation Revolution of early/mid 1800s

Current Events
Bernard LeGeros paroled 30 years after Stony Point murder - LoHud

Pelosi and Democrats to retake House today - NYT

Today in History
1521

• Martin Luther excommunicated by Pope Leo X.

• 1777

  George Washington defeated Cornwallis's forces at the Battle of Princeton.

• 1833

  Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands.

• 1870

  Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge began.

• 1920

  The New York Yankees acquired Babe Ruth and so began the "curse of the Bambino" that haunted the Boston Red Sox until 2004.

• 1947

  Congressional proceedings were televised for the first time.

• 1958

  Sir Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole overland.

• 1959

  Alaska became the 49th state in the United States.

• 1962

  Pope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro.

• 1967

  Jack Ruby, the man who shot John Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, died.

• 1987

  Aretha Franklin became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

• 1990

  Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces.

Wednesday, January 2

Good morning!

Happy New Year!!!!

Today we will work on Chapter 9 Key Terms (finish for homework)

Current Events
Wanted: Substitute Teachers - LoHud

Rockland - Meet the new acting District Attorney - LoHud

Flu season picking up steam; not too late to get vaccinated - THR

Today in History

• 1492

  Muhammad XI, the leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain, surrendered to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I.

• 1788

  Georgia was admitted to the Union as the 4th state.

• 1839

  Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon.

• 1905

  The Russo-Japanese war ended.

• 1923

  The African-American town of Rosewood, Fla., was burned by a white mob.

• 1935

  The Bruno R. Hauptmann trial began for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh baby.

• 1959

  The first spacecraft to fly by the Moon and also to orbit the Sun, Mechta (Luna 1) was launched by the USSR.

• 1994

  Rudolph Giuliani is inaugurated as New York City's mayor.

Yesterday Tomorrow

Thursday, Dec 20

Good morning!

Today we will work on Ch 9 worksheet

Current Events
New York State's population continues to decline, while the US continues to grow - LoHud

Trump withdraws US forces from Syria, declaring "We Have won against ISIS" - NYT

Today in History

• 1790

  Samuel Slater built the nation's first cotton mill in Pawtucket, R.I.

• 1803

  The United States purchased the Louisiana territory from France for $15 million.

• 1860

  South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union.

• 1968

  Author John Steinbeck died at age 66.

• 1989

  The United States invaded Panama and installed a new government but failed to capture General Manuel Antonio Noriega.

• 1996

  Astronomer Carl Sagan died at age 62.

Wednesday, Dec 19

Good morning!

Today we will work on Ch 8 Key Terms. **DBQ's due today.**

Current Events
Katelyn Tuohy receives the "Key to Rockland" - LoHud

Facebook gave data giants more access to info than it disclosed - NYT

Today in History

• 1732

  Benjamin Franklin began publishing Poor Richard's Almanac.

• 1776

  Thomas Paine published his first American Crisis essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls."

• 1843

  Charles Dickens published "A Christmas Carol."

• 1946

  War broke out in Indochina when Ho Chi Minh attacked the French.

• 1972

  Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.

• 1984

  Britain and China signed an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997.

• 1998

  President Bill Clinton impeached on two counts by the House of Representatives.

• 2003

  Muammar al-Qaddafi of Libya announced that his country would discontinue development of weapons of mass destruction.

Tuesday, Dec 18

Good morning!

Today we will work on a DBQ on Jacksonian Democracy

Current Events
Rockland officials confirm cases of whooping cough - LoHud

New Google campus coming into Manhattan - NYT

Today in History

• 1737

  Violin maker Antonio Stradivari died in Cremona, Italy.

• 1787

  New Jersey became the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

• 1865

  Slavery was abolished with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.

• 1892

  Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker Suite" premiered at St. Petersburg's Maryinksy Theatre.

• 1944

  The Supreme Court upheld the wartime internment of Japanese-Americans.

• 1956

  Japan was admitted to the United Nations.

• 1957

  The Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania became the first civilian nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States.

• 1969

  The British Parliament abolished the death penalty for murder.

• 2000

  George W. Bush received 271 votes in the delayed Electoral College balloting.

• 2010

  The Senate votes 65 to 31 in favor of repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the Clinton-era military policy that forbids openly gay men and women from serving in the military.

Monday, December 17

Good morning!

Today we will examine Jackson's presidency

Current Events
NYS Attorney General to investigate new TZ Bridge construction - LoHud

Is eating deli meat really bad for you? NYT

Today in History

• 1777

  France recognized American independence.

• 1903

  Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first flight in a heavier-than-air plane at Kitty Hawk, N.C.

• 1944

  The U.S. Army announced the end of its policy of holding Japanese-Americans in internment camps, allowing "evacuees" to return home.

• 1969

  The U.S. Air Force ended its "Project Blue Book" and concluded that there was no evidence of extraterrestrial activity behind UFO sightings.

• 1992

  North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed by U.S., Canada, and Mexico.