Monday, May 1

Good morning!

Today we will


Current Events

Rockland: More corruption here than in other counties? - TJN

NYC subways; 6 million riders a day, 1930's technology - NYT

Shaming children so parents will pay lunch bill - NYT
Today in History

• 1707

  The Act of Union joined England and Scotland to form Great Britain.

• 1931

  The Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 102 stories, it would be the world's tallest building for the next 41 years. 

• 1941

  Orson Welles's Citizen Kane, considered by many the greatest film ever made, premiered in New York.

• 1948

  The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was established with Kim Il Sung as president.

• 1960

  The Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane over Soviet territory.

• 1967

  Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu. (They divorced in 1973.)

• 1991

  44-year-old Texas fireballer Nolan Ryan hurled his seventh and final no-hitter in a 3-0 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. That same day, Oakland's Rickey Henderson broke Lou Brock’s stolen base record.

• 2003

  President Bush made a speech aboard an aircraft carrier proclaiming “major combat operations in Iraq have ended.”

• 2009

  For the first time in 341 years, a woman is appointed as poet laureate of the United Kingdom. Carol Ann Duffy, 53, will take over the post from current poet laureate Andrew Motion.