Monday, April 4

Good morning!

Today we will begin studying impact of The Great War - later called World War I - on the US.

Mets lost, 4-3, to Royals last night
                                                 Yankees host Astros today at 1 p.m. (POSTPONED, now  tomorrow at 1)

Current Events
Men's Division I National Championship tonight - Villanova vs. N. Carolina

Tomorrow is the Wisconsin Presidential Primaries

2 killed in Amtrak crash near Philly

Today in History

1818

Congress adopted a U.S. flag with one star for each state.

1841

President William Henry Harrison died from pneumonia, one month after his inauguration.

1945

The Ohrdruf death camp was liberated from Nazi occupation.

1949

The treaty establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was signed.

1968

Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated.

1973

The ribbon was cut to open the World Trade Center in New York City.

1981

Henry Cisneros became the mayor of San Antonio, Texas: the first Hispanic mayor of a major U.S. city.

1983

Sally Ride became the first U.S. woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.