Thursday, Feb 1

Good morning!

Today we will have our Mid-year assessment

Current Events
FBI chief clashes with Trump over G.O.P. memo - NYT

Cape Town, South Africa facing turning off water to all - NYT
Today in History

• 1790

  The Supreme Court of the United States convened for the first time, in New York City.

• 1862

  Julia Ward Howe's poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was published in the Atlantic Monthly.

• 1884

  The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary A–Ant, was published.

• 1946

  A press conference announced the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC, was held at the University of Pennsylvania.

• 1960

  Four black college students began a series of sit-ins at a white-only lunch counter in Woolworth’s, Greensboro, N.C.

• 1968

  During the Vietnam War, a Viet Cong officer was executed with a pistol shot to the head by Saigon's police chief and the image captured in a famous news photograph.

• 1979

  Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after 15 years of exile.

• 2003

  The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it tried to reenter the Earth's atmosphere after a sixteen-day mission in space. All seven members of the crew were lost.

• 2004

  Janet Jackson's famous "wardrobe malfunction" occurred at Super Bowl XXXVIII.

• 2009

  Johanna Sigurdardottir takes office as Iceland's first female prime minister.