Thursday, October 23

Good morning!!!

Today we will - a) go over your notes from Ch 6 Section 1 & 2; discuss the Electoral College, based upon last night's homework.

There is a fantastic story in today's Journal-News regarding diversity in the lower Hudson Valley and Rockland - I recommend it to everyone - Diversity in Lower Hudson Valley

Today in History:
1910 - Blanche S. Scott became the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight in the United States. 

1929 - In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged starting the stock-market crash that began the Great Depression. 

1946 - The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time. 

1956 - Hungarian citizens began an uprising against Soviet occupation. On November 4, 1956 Soviet forces enter Hungary and eventually suppress the uprising. 

1956 - NBC broadcasted the first videotape recording. The tape of Jonathan Winters was seen coast to coast in the U.S. 

1958 - Russian poet and novelist Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He was forced to refuse the honor due to negative Soviet reaction. Pasternak won the award for writing "Dr. Zhivago". 

1973 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon agreed to turn over the subpoenaed tapes concerning the Watergate affair. 

1978 - China and Japan formally ended four decades of hostility when they exchanged treaty ratifications. 

1989 - Hungary became an independent republic, after 33 years of Soviet rule. 

1992 - Japanese Emperor Akihito became the first Japanese emperor to stand on Chinese soil. 

1993 - Joe Carter (Toronto Blue Jays) became only the second player to end the World Series with a homerun.