Wednesday, May 17

Good morning!

We will continue to examine the Cold War.

Current Events
Two schools in Hillburn (Rockland County); about 1943 school desegregation premieres this weekend - TJN

Comey says Trump asked him to end the Flynn investigation - NYT

Today in History

• 1792

  The New York Stock Exchange was established when a group of 24 brokers and merchants met by a tree on what is now Wall Street and signed the Buttonwood Agreement.

• 1875

  The first Kentucky Derby was held at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Kentucky.

• 1938

  NBC aired the Information Please quiz show on the radio for the first time.

• 1954

  The Supreme Court ruled unanimously against segregation in schools in Brown v. Board of Education.

• 1973

  Televised Watergate hearings opened, headed by North Carolina senator Sam Ervin.

• 1987

  An Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S.S. Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors and wounding 62.

• 1997

  Laurent Kabila declared himself president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

• 2004

  In Massachusetts, same-sex couples exchanged marriage vows for the first time in the United States.