Wednesday, April 11

Good morning!

Today we will work on Key Terms.

Reminder - check the portal between now and Friday's class to determine if you have not submitted any assignments.

Current Events
Cashless tolls, Welcome to the dark future - LoHud

Mark Zuckerberg testifies on Facebook before skeptical lawyers - NYT

Today in History

• 1814

  Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba.

• 1899

  The treaty ending the Spanish-American War took effect.

• 1921

  Iowa imposed the first state cigarette tax.

• 1945

  Allies liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.

• 1951

  President Harry Truman fired General Douglas McArthur.

• 1968

  President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1968 Civil Rights Act.

• 1979

  Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was overthrown.

• 1981

  President Ronald Reagan returned to the White House after he was shot in an assassination attempt.

• 2007

  Science-fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut died in New York City at age 84.