Friday, January 12

Good morning!

Today we will continue to work on power points

Current Events
Nyack gives voice to its African American history - LoHud

Trump alleged to have slurred some foreign nations - NYT

Today in History

• 1773

  The first public museum in the U.S. was established in Charleston, S.C.

• 1896

  H. L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph. It was a hand with a bullet in it.

• 1915

  The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.

• 1932

  Hattie W. Caraway, a democrat from Arkansas became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.

• 1964

  One month after Zanzibar became independent, the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party was overthrown in a violent coup.

• 1991

  A divided Congress gave President Bush the go-ahead on the Persian Gulf War.

• 1998

  Nineteen European countries signed an agreement banning human cloning.

• 2010

  Haiti is dealt a catastrophic blow when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the country's capital. It is the region's worst earthquake in 200 years. The number of fatalities were between 46,000 and 85,000 people.