Monday, March 12

Good morning!

Welcome back after your "mini-break!"  Did you "Spring Forward" yesterday?

Today we will view America, Story of US

Current Events
How Daylight Savings Time works and why some states want to ditch it - Yahoo

"Fake news" and hoaxes are catching people in India, as millions see You tube for the 1st time - CNBC

5 killed in helicopter crash in NYC last night - NYT
Today in History

• 1912

  Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts.

• 1930

  Mohandas Gandhi began his 200-mile march to protest the British salt tax.

• 1933

  President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the first of his nation-wide "fireside chats" on radio.

• 1938

  "Anschluss" took place when Hitler incorporated his homeland of Austria into the Third Reich.

• 1947

  President Truman established the "Truman Doctrine" to aid in the containment of Communism.

• 1993

  Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female attorney general of the United States.

• 1994

  The Church of England ordained women priests for the first time in 460 years.

• 2002

  The color-coded terror alert system was unveiled by Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge.

• 2003

  The prime minister of the Serbian state (of Serbia and Montenegro), Zoran Djindjic, was assassinated.