Thursday, Nov 12

Good morning!!

Today we will finish examining the first three presidents - Washington, Adams and Jefferson - and begin to study the War of 1812.

Legoland looks to be alive and well in Orange County

Good neighbors? Montreal begins dumping raw sewage into St. Lawrence River

Next presidential debate - Saturday, Nov 14 - Democratic debate - Details tomorrow!

Happy 200th birthday to Elizabeth Cady Stanton!!!

Today in History

1920

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of baseball.

1927

Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and Joseph Stalin became the ruler of the Soviet Union.

1954

Ellis Island stopped serving as the chief immigration station for the United States. Twenty million immigrants went through Ellis Island in its 62 years of operation.

1981

The space shuttle Columbia was launched for the second time. It was the first time a space vehicle was used more than once.

1990

Akihito becomes emperor of Japan.

1997

Ramzi Yousef, the man behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was convicted in New York.