Thursday, April 7

Good morning!

Today we will finish examining the causes/effects of World War I

Tonight the FINAL American Idol winner will be crowned. This show began in 2002 and has given us artists such as - Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood!

Country star Merle Haggard died yesterday at the age of 79

Current Events
Water woes in Rockland?

Unmarried couples in Florida can now live together legally; 148-year-old law repealed

Delaware student's essay about Costco helps get her into 5 Ivy schools!

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.

2003

Cécile de Brunhoff, creator of Babar the elephant, died.

2009

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

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