Thursday, May 18

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Today we will beat the heat and view "America, Story of US" Super power


Current Events
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller will head a special counsel on Russia investigation - NYT

Miles of Antartic ice are collapsing into the sea - NYT

Today in History

• 1642

  The city of Montreal was founded by the French.

• 1804

  Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate.

• 1896

  The Supreme Court affirmed racial segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson as "separate but equal."

• 1920

  Pope John Paul II was born near Krakow, Poland.

• 1953

  Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound.

• 1974

  India became the 6th country to become a nuclear power.

• 1980

  Mount St. Helens, in Washington state, erupted after being dormant for 123 years.

• 1994

  Israeli troops withdrew from the Gaza strip after three decades of occupation and Palestinians took over.

• 2000

  A bill was finally passed that removed the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse.

• 2003

  President Megawati Sukarnoputri of Indonesia declared martial law and sent 30,000 troops into Aceh.

• 2004

  Sonia Gandhi stunned her party, the Indian National Congress, by refusing to accept the prime ministership of India.