Monday, November 20

Good morning!

Today we will finish our studies of Andrew Jackson

Current Events
NYC didn't notice error that got thousands of tickets dismissed - NYP

Charles Manson dead at 83; NYT

Call it Splitsville, NY; Hasidic enclave to get its own town - NYT

Today in History

• 1789

  New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

• 1910

  Francisco Madero began an armed revolt against the president of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz.

• 1945

  The war crimes trials of 24 German World War II leaders began in Nuremberg, Germany.

• 1947

  The future Queen Elizabeth II married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Ediburgh.

• 1962

  President John F. Kennedy agreed to lift the American blockade of Cuba, ending the Cuban missile crisis.

• 1975

  Spain's General Francisco Franco died.

• 2000

  Peru's president Alberto Fujimori resigned.