Thursday, Feb 15

Good morning!

Today we will continue power point from 2/14 on Boss Tweed

Current Events
17 dead in Florida school shooting; number could rise - NYT

Today in History

• 1764

  St. Louis, Mo., was founded as a French fur-trading post.

• 1879

  President Rutherford Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.

• 1898

  USS Maine blew up in Havana harbor, touching off the Spanish-American War.

• 1913

  The New York Armory Show opened, introducing America to Picasso, Duchamp, and Matisse.

• 1933

  Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in an assassination attempt on president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami.

• 1965

  The Maple Leaf Flag officially became the new national flag of Canada.

• 1989

  More than 100,000 Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan almost 10 years after the USSR invaded the country.

• 2002

  Olympics officials resolved the judging scandal by awarding Canadian pairs figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier a gold medal while allowing the Russians, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, to keep their medal.

• 2003

  Millions of protesters around the world demonstrated against the threat of a U.S. war on Iraq.

• 2012

  A prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras killed 360.