Wednesday, April 25

Good morning!

Today we will view America, Story of US

Homework - Use power point link to review the effects World War II

Current Events
NYCFC's opens its' training facility in Orangetown - LoHud

Trump's travel ban faces a Supreme Court test - NYT

Not satisfied with delivering to your home, Amazon now delivers to the trunk of your parked car - NYT

Today in History

• 1901

  New York became the first state to require license plates on cars.

• 1915

  British, Australian, and New Zealand forces landed at Gallipoli.

• 1928

  The first seeing eye dog was presented to Morris S. Frank.

• 1945

  Delegates met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations.

• 1953

  The Francis Crick and James Watson article describing the double helix of DNA is published in the magazine Nature.

• 1959

  The St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping.

• 1990

  Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was inaugurated as president of Nicaragua.

• 1992

  Islamic forces took over most of Kabul, Afghanistan after the Soviet-controlled government collapsed.

• 2003

  The Georgia legislature voted to scrap the "Confederate flag"design from its state flag.