Thursday, April 16

Good morning!

Today we will begin studying the causes/effects of the Great Depression.

Today in History

1917

Lenin returned to Russia after 10 years in exile in Switzerland.

1947

Financier Bernard Baruch coined the term “cold war” in a speech in South Carolina.

1947

Most of Texas City, Tex., destroyed when French ship Grandcamp exploded.

1972

China sent President Nixon two giant pandas as a gift.

1999

Hockey great Wayne Gretzky announced his retirement.

2007

A male student, Cho Seung-Hui, killed two in a Virginia Tech dorm, then killed 30 more 2 hours later in a classroom building. His suicide brought the death toll to 33, making the shooting rampage the most deadly in U.S. history. Fifteen others were wounded.