Tuesday, April 25

Good morning!

Today we will work on the Great Depression.

Homework -

Current Events
Rockland unites to for Holocaust Remembrance Day - TJN

Two Arkansas inmates put to death in rare double execution - NYT

New Orleans begins removing Confederate memorials, under police protection - NYT

Today in History

• 1901

  New York became the first state to require license plates on cars.

• 1915

  British, Australian, and New Zealand forces landed at Gallipoli.

• 1928

  The first seeing eye dog was presented to Morris S. Frank.

• 1945

  Delegates met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations.

• 1953

  The Francis Crick and James Watson article describing the double helix of DNA is published in the magazine Nature.

• 1959

  The St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping.

• 1990

  Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was inaugurated as president of Nicaragua.

• 1992

  Islamic forces took over most of Kabul, Afghanistan after the Soviet-controlled government collapsed.

• 2003

  The Georgia legislature voted to scrap the "Confederate flag" design from its state flag.
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