Wednesday, January 24

Good morning!

Today we will continue with our mid-year review

Current Events 
Rockland unveils new crime tip texting app - LoHud

Suffern hockey father shares pain of his son's death from drug abuse - LoHud

Are you addicted to your phone? NYT

Today in History

• 41

  Roman emperor, Gaius Caesar, better known as Caligula(meaning Little Boot—he used to wear military boots as a child), was murdered.

• 1848

  Gold was first discovered in California, in Sutter's mill. When President Polk announced the news in December, the gold rush began.

• 1908

  Robert Baden-Powell organized the first Boy Scout troop in England.

• 1943

  The Casablanca Conference with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill concluded.

• 1965

  Winston Churchill died in London at age 90.

• 1972

  Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was discovered in Guam, having spent 28 years hiding in the jungle thinking World War IIwas still going on.

• 1986

  Voyager Two space probe passes within 51,000 miles of Uranus.

• 1993

  The first African-American to sit on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall, died.

• 2003

  The Department of Homeland Security, under Tom Ridge, became a cabinet department.