Friday, Feb 16

Good morning!

Today we will finish the power point.

Enjoy your break!!!!!

Current Events
Haverstraw unveils water front development project - LoHud

Contaminated soil case at Sloatsburg park heads to court - LoHud

These are the victims of the Fla. school shooting - CNN

Today in History

• 1804

  U.S. frigate Philadelphia, captured and held by Barbary pirates at Tripoli during the Tripolitan War, was set fire to and destroyed by a small group of men led by Stephen Decatur.

• 1918

  Lithuania proclaimed its independence from Russia.

• 1923

  The tomb of King Tutankhamen, discovered in 1922, was opened.

• 1937

  Nylon was patented.

• 1959

  Fidel Castro became the leader of Cuba after having ousted the right-wing dictator Fulgencio Batista.

• 1968

  The country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala.

• 1999

  Turkish commandos captured Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan in Kenya, sparking seizures of embassies in Europe by Kurds.