Thursday, April 20

Good morning!

Today we will continue to view "Cinderella Man"

Current Events
Bill O'Reilly fired at Fox News - NYT

The Fall of Aaron Hernandez - NYT

Big Idaho potato truck returns to Rockland - TJN

Today in History

• 1769

  Ottawa Indian chief Pontiac murdered.

• 1841

  The first detective story, Edgar Allen Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue was published.

• 1902

  Marie and Pierre Curie isolated radium.

• 1912

  The Boston Red Sox played their first game at Fenway Park. They beat the N.Y. Highlanders (who in 1913 would become known as the Yankees) 7-6.

• 1971

  The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the practice of busing for racial desegregation.

• 1999

  14 students (including killers) and 1 teacher killed, 23 others wounded at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in the nation's deadliest school shooting.

• 2008

  Danica Patrick won the Indy Japan 300, becoming the first woman to win an IndyCar race.

• 2010

  An explosion on a BP oil drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana kills 11 people and injures 17. Experts estimate that 13,000 gallons of crude oil per hour are pouring into the Gulf of Mexico.