Monday, Oct 16

Good morning!

Today we will finish the power point on effects of American Revolution and creation of government

Current Events
Colin Kaepernick files a grievance against the NFL - NYT

The world once laughed at the thought of North Korea as a cyber power - No More - NYT

ATM fees in NYC area are out of control - NYP

Today in History

• 1793

  French queen Marie Antoinette was guillotined for treason.

• 1859

  Abolitionist John Brown and his men captured the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry.

• 1916

  Margaret Sanger opened the first birth-control clinic in New York City.

• 1962

  The Cuban Missile Crisis began.

• 1964

  China detonated its first atomic bomb.

• 1978

  John Paul II was elected pope.

• 1995

  Hundreds of thousands of black men gathered in Washington for the "Million Man March" led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

• 2001

  Twelve Senate offices were closed when a letter to Sen. Tom Daschle was found to contain anthrax.

• 2002

  The White House announced that North Korea had disclosed the existence of a secret nuclear weapons program.