Thursday, April 26

Good morning!

Today we will finish America, Story of US and discuss power point of 4/25

Current Events
Police target drivers passing school busses - LoHud

Karate Kid Revisted - NYT

Today in History

• 1607

  Colonists land at Cape Henry, Va., They would found Jamestown the next month.

• 1865

  John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassin, was surrounded by federal troops in a barn in Virginia. He was shot and killed, either by the soldiers or by his own hand.

• 1937

  The German Luftwaffe (air force) destroyed the Spanish town of Guernica.

• 1964

  Tanganyika and Zanzibar joined to form Tanzania.

• 1986

  The worst nuclear power plant accident in history occurred at Chernobyl, near Kiev, U.S.S.R.

• 1994

  The first multi-racial elections were held in South Africa.

• 2000

  Vermont Governor Howard Dean signed the nation's first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.