Wednesday, Feb 17

Good morning! I hope you enjoyed your Mid-Winter Break!!!

NY Mets pitchers and catchers report for Spring Training today (Yankees tomorrow)

PLAYOFFS - YES, PLAYOFFS - Jim Mora - playoffs -  Boys and Girls Basketball teams HOME tonight; girls at 4:30 p.m. vs. Yorktown, boys at 7 p.m. vs. White Plains

Today - We will study Westward Expansion, Chinese workers and Conflict with Native Americans  (Karl Sagan power points, Elk River High)

Current Events
Apple calls court order "Unprecendented step" - YOU SHOULD ALL READ THIS

President Obama on filling the vacant Supreme Court seat left by Justice Scalia's death

Meet Rockland's first woman voter

Today in History

1801

The electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr was broken by the House of Representatives who elected Jefferson president.

1817

Baltimore became the first U.S. city lit by gas.

1864

The Confederate submarine Hunley, equipped with an explosive at the end of a protruding spar, rammed and sank the Union's ship Housatonic off the coast of Charleston, S.C.

1972

President Richard Nixon left on his trip to China.

1996

Chess champion Garry Kasparov beat the IBM computer, Deep Blue, winning the six-game match.