Wednedsday, June 7

Good morning!

Today we will view The Century 1990's and beyond

Tips on writing US History Regents essays - Mr. Klaff

US History DBQ and Thematic topics from Greece NY CSD

Current Events
Breaking News this morning - ISIS Claims Duel Attacks in Iran - NYT

Overdoses now leading cause of death in US for people under 50 - CBS

How Bots are inflating Instagram egos - NYT

Today in History

• 1494

  Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the New World between the two countries.

• 1654

  Louis XIV was crowned king of France.

• 1776

  Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution in the Continental Congress proposing a Declaration of Independence.

• 1892

  Homer Plessy was arrested for his refusal to move from a whites-only seat on a train. This led to the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision.

• 1929

  Vatican City became a sovereign state.

• 1948

  President Eduard Beneš of Czechoslovakia resigned and the Communist takeover of the country was completed.

• 1967

  Dorothy Parker, American short story writer, poet, and critic, died.

• 2003

  Rev. V. Gene Robinson was elected the first openly gay bishop by New Hampshire Episcopalians.