Tuesday, November 29th

Good morning!

Today we will finish studying Clay's American System and explore Jacksonian Democracy

Current Events
Plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team crashes in Colombia; at least 76 dead - NYP

A wrenching choice for Alaska towns in the path of climate change - NYT

Today in History

1924

Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels before he could complete his opera "Turandot.'"

1929

Commander Richard E. Byrd and a crew of three became the first to fly over the South Pole.

1947

The United Nations voted to grant the Jewish people a homeland to be established in Palestine.

1963

President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.

1986

Actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82.

2001

Beatle George Harrison died of cancer.