Wednesday, November 22

Good morning!

Today we will work on our DBQ.


Current Events
Uber data breach; effects 57 million - NYT

Today in History

• 1497

  Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama became the first navigator to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in his search for a sea route to India.

• 1718

  Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard the pirate, was killed off the east coast of North America.

• 1842

  Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupted. Ash fallout reached as far as 48 mi away.

• 1906

  "S-O-S" was adopted as a distress signal at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.

• 1943

  President Franklin Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan.

• 1963

  President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas.

• 1990

  Margaret Thatcher announced her resignation as prime minister of the United Kingdom.

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