Wednesday, Dec 6

Good morning!

Today we will finish viewing "Glory" and you will have time to work on the questions.

Current Events
"One phone call and your done." How Harvey Weinstein wielded power over employees - NYT

2017, "The Year in Climate"

Today in History

• 1884

  Construction of the Washington Monument was completed.

• 1889

  Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, died in New Orleans.

• 1923

  A presidential address was broadcast on the radio for the first time when Calvin Coolidge spoke before Congress.

• 1926

  French impressionist painter Claude Monet died at age 86.

• 1973

  Gerald Ford was sworn in as vice president, replacing Spiro T. Agnew.

• 1992

  The destruction of a mosque in India by Hindu extremists set off two months of Muslim-Hindu fighting that claimed at least 2,000 lives.

• 1998

  Hugo Chavez elected president of Venezuela.