Wednesday, April 19

Good morning!

Today we will continue viewing "Cinderella Man"

Current Events
Democrat nearly wins Georgia congressional seat that has been Republican for over 40 years; runoff in June - NYT

In Arkansas, a tempered victory for Death Penalty opponents - NYT

Former Patriot Aaron Hernandez commits suicide in prison - Boston Globe

Today in History

• 1775

  The "shot heard around the world" was fired. Colonial Minute Men took on British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord, Mass., starting the American Revolution.

• 1824

  Lord Byron died of a fever while helping the Greeks fight the Turks.

• 1882

  Naturalist Charles Darwin, developer of the theory of evolution, died.

• 1897

  The first Boston Marathon was run.

• 1933

  The United States went off the gold standard.

• 1943

  The Warsaw ghetto uprising began, one of the first mass rebellions against the Nazis.

• 1993

  The siege at Waco, Texas, ended when FBI moved into the Branch Davidian compound with tear gas and cult members set fire to the compound killing over 80 people.

• 1995

  The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., was destroyed by a car bomb. 168 people, including 19 children were killed in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history up to that time.

• 2005

  Germany's Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI.