Monday, April 30

Good morning!

Today we will discuss the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s

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Today in History

• 1803

  France sold Louisiana and adjoining lands to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase.

• 1812

  Louisiana became the 18th state in the United States.

• 1939

  U.S. commercial television made its official debut at the New York World’s Fair.The signal was transmitted from the Empire State Building.

• 1945

  Adolf Hitler and his newly married mistress Eva Braun committed suicide.

• 1948

  The Organization of American States held its first meeting in Bogotá, Colombia.

• 1975

  The Vietnam War ended with South Vietnam's surrender to North Vietnam.

• 1991

  Over 131,000 were killed and as many as 9 million left homeless when a cyclone struck Bangladesh.

• 2003

  Libya accepted responsibility for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.