Monday, November 24

Good morning!

Did you see Odell Beckham Jr's catch last night?!?!?!?!Greatest NFL catch ever?

There is a Winter Storm Warning for Wednesday - Snow Wednesday?  Bring home anything you need for the long weekend TODAY or TOMORROW - just in case!

Today - We will be working on a THEMATIC ESSAY on Andrew Jackson taken from the 2006 US History Regents.

Today in History:

On Nov. 24, 1944, during World War II, U.S. bombers based on Saipan attacked Tokyo in the first raid against the Japanese capital by land-based planes.

In 1859, British naturalist Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," which explained his theory of evolution by means of natural selection.

In 1950, the musical "Guys and Dolls," based on the writings of Damon Runyon and featuring songs by Frank Loesser (LEH'-suhr), opened on Broadway.

In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, in a scene captured on live television.

In 1969, Apollo 12 splashed down safely in the Pacific.

In 1971, a hijacker calling himself "Dan Cooper" (but who became popularly known as "D.B. Cooper") parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 over the Pacific Northwest after receiving $200,000 dollars in ransom — his fate remains unknown.