Monday, March 19

Good morning!

Today we will continue to study power point from 3/16 - Power Point

Current Events
Rockland County is healthiest in NY - LoHud

Putin wins fourth term - NYT

Today in History

• 1853

  During the Taiping Rebellion in China, the rebels captured Nanking and renamed it T'en-ching (Heavenly Capital).

• 1920

  The United States Senate voted down signing the Treaty of Versailles for the second time.

• 1931

  Nevada state legislature legalized gambling.

• 1953

  The Academy Awards were first televised.

• 1996

  Sarajevo became a united city again after four years when Moslem-Croat authorities took control of the last district held by Serbs.

• 2003

  Operation Iraqi Freedom is launched with air strikes on Baghdad, the beginning of the war with Iraq (March 20 in Iraq).