Tuesday, April 7

Good morning!! Welcome Back!! I hope everyone had a wonderful Spring Break!! Today we will look at the causes of World War I Causes of World War I

Today in History:

1862

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh.

1913

5,000 suffragists march to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. , seeking the vote for women.

1927

U.S. secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover’s Washington speech was seen and heard in New York in the first long-distance television transmission.

1948

The World Health Organization, a UN agency, was founded.

1949

Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize winner, South Pacific opened on Broadway.

2009

Vermont becomes the fourth U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage, just days after Iowa becomes the third.