Thursday, April 12

Good morning!

Today we will (Period 3 - work on essay); Period 7 - Key Terms

Current Events
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to retire in January - NYT

1,000 year old shirt has a story to tell - NYT

Israel stands for Holocaust Remembrance Day - JPost

Today in History

• 1861

  The Civil War began when Fort Sumter was attacked.

• 1862

  James J. Andrews led the raiding party that stole the Confederate locomotive "The General," inspiring the 1926 Buster Keaton movie.

• 1945

  President Franklin Roosevelt died.

• 1955

  The polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was called "safe, effective, and potent."

• 1961

  Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin became the first human in space and also the first human to orbit the earth in a spacecraft.

• 1981

  The first space shuttle, Columbia, took its first test flight.

• 1983

  Harold Washington was elected Chicago’s first African-American mayor.

• 1999

  Arkansas federal judge Susan Webber Wright found President Clinton in contempt of court for lying about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.