Monday, May 21

Good morning!

Today we will finish power point of the 70's

Current Events
Rockland remembers its' fallen police officers - LoHud

Remembering the victims from the Santa Fe school shooting - NYT

Today in History

• 1542

  Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto died while searching for gold on the banks of the Mississippi River.

• 1881

  Clara Barton founded what became the American Red Cross.

• 1927

  Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly across the Atlantic (from New York to Paris) in his monoplane, The Spirit of St. Louis.

• 1932

  Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean (from Newfoundland to Ireland).

• 1956

  The first hydrogen bomb to be dropped by air exploded over the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

• 1989

  In Hong Kong, approximately one million people took to the streets to show their support for students protesting for democratic reforms in China’s Tiananmen Square.

• 1991

  Rajiv Gandhi, former Indian prime minister, was assassinated by a suicide bomber.

• 1998

  Indonesian President Suharto resigned.

• 1999

  Susan Lucci finally won a Daytime Emmy on her 19th nomination.

• 2003

  Christine Todd Whitman announced her resignation as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.