Friday, April 28

Good morning!

Today we will continue our work on the New Deal.

Current Events
Circling back to voters, tomorrow marks Trump's 100th day - NYT

Drugged driving deaths higher than drunk driving deaths - CNN

Today in History

• 1788

  Maryland became the 7th state in the United States.

• 1789

  Fletcher Christian led the mutiny aboard the British ship Bounty against Captain William Bligh.

• 1945

  Benito Mussolini was executed.

• 1947

  Thor Heyerdahl and five others began their Pacific Ocean crossing on the raft, Kon-Tiki.

• 1967

  Boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army.

• 1992

  The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture unveiled its first “food pyramid.”

• 2001

  Dennis Tito became the first space tourist.

• 2004

  The Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal first comes to light when graphic photos of U.S. soldiers physically abusing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners were shown on CBS's 60 Minutes II.