Monday, March 5

Good morning!

Today we will work on events of end of 1800's

Current Events
More than 80,000 still without power in Hudson Valley; another storm on its way - LoHud

To help children go to sleep, go dark - NYT

Here comes the fake videos too; AI makes it easy to make someone "say" something - NYT

Today in History

• 1770

  The Boston Massacre, a pre-Revolutionary incident that grew out of anger towards British troops, occurred. Five anti-British rioters were killed.

• 1933

  In the last free elections in Germany until after World War II, the Nazi Party received 44% of the vote.

• 1946

  Winston Churchill delivered his famous Iron curtain speech, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent."

• 1953

  Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died at age 73, after 29 years in power.

• 1963

  Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hankshaw Hawkins were killed in a plane crash.

• 1997

  North and South Korean representatives met for the first time in 25 years for peace talks.