Tuesday, Feb 3

Good morning!!!!

There will be a guidance presentation today for 11th grade social studies classes.

IF YOU WERE ABSENT ON FRIDAY, please pick up the Chapter 12 Key Terms handout on my desk.

Today in History

1870

The 15th Amendment (black suffrage) passed.

1913

The 16th Amendment, establishing federal income tax, was ratified.

1917

The U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Germany.

1959

Rock singers, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and Big Bopper died in a plane crash. Listen to American Pie - American Pie

1995

Col. Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot the space shuttle when the Discovery blasted off.

1998

Texas executed Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984.