Tuesday, Jan 2

Good morning!

Happy New Year!!

Today we will work on Ch 14 Key Terms

Current Events
Rockland County Executive Ed Day outlines his goals for 2nd term - Lohud

Family recalls years of anguish with son defeated by drugs - LoHud

Teenagers: Stop asking for nude pictures - NYT

Today in History

• 1492

  Muhammad XI, the leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain, surrendered to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I.

• 1788

  Georgia was admitted to the Union as the 4th state.

• 1839

  Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon.

• 1905

  The Russo-Japanese war ended.

• 1923

  The African-American town of Rosewood, Fla., was burned by a white mob.

• 1935

  The Bruno R. Hauptmann trial began for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh baby.

• 1959

  The first spacecraft to fly by the Moon and also to orbit the Sun, Mechta (Luna 1) was launched by the USSR.

• 1994

  Rudolph Giuliani is inaugurated as New York City's mayor.