Wednesday, Jan 13

Good morning!

WING NIGHT TOMORROW
Come out and support the Girls Basketball (10-3, 2-0 League) team - 5:45 pm vs. Suffern!

Explain your thoughts on President Obama's State of the Union - a) if you had never watched before, what were your impressions of the event; b) How do you view Mr. Obama's vision for the upcoming year? Please post your thoughts below.

We will finish causes of the Civil War today and go over your worksheet from yesterday.

Current Events 
Did you see the people in NJ who thought they won Powerball for 20 minutes last weekend? Workers think they won Powerball

Iran releases US Navy crew it calls trespassers

Is it the 1980's? Creed (Rocky) and Star Wars in the movies, gas prices under $2 and the Rams are returning to Los Angeles? St. Louis returning to LA, Chargers next?


Today in History

1773

The first public museum in the U.S. was established in Charleston, S.C.

1896

H. L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph. It was a hand with a bullet in it.

1915

The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.

1932

Hattie W. Caraway, a democrat from Arkansas became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.p.

1991

A divided Congress gave President Bush the go-ahead on the Persian Gulf War.

1998

Nineteen European countries signed an agreement banning human cloning.

2010

Haiti is dealt a catastrophic blow when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the country's capital. It is the region's worst earthquake in 200 years. The number of fatalities were between 46,000 and 85,000 people.