Monday, Oct 2

Good morning!

Today we will begin to examine the different Acts (taxes) that the British imposed on the Americans, leading up to the American Revolution

Today's power point on Causes of American Revolution

Current Events

Breaking News - More than 50 dead and 200 injured in Las Vegas - NYT

Paul Revere's outhouse may have been discovered in Boston - CNN

Today in History

• 1919

  President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke, which left him partially paralyzed.

• 1944

  The two-month-long Warsaw Uprising was squelched by Nazi troops battling the Polish underground.

• 1950

  The "Peanuts" comic strip, by Charles M. Schultz, first appeared in newspapers.

• 1958

  Guinea proclaimed its independence from France.

• 1967

  Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

• 1998

  Gene Autry, the singing cowboy and former owner of the Anaheim Angels baseball team, died at age 91.
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