Tuesday, May 15

Good morning!

Today we will look at presidencies of Nixon, Ford and Carter - Power point

Google story from class today

Current Events
Search underway for source of Hudson River spill - LoHud

Supreme Court strikes down ban on sports betting - NYT

Today in History

• 1862

  The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress on this day.

• 1911

  The Standard Oil Company, headed by John D. Rockefeller, was ordered dissolved by the Supreme Court, under the Sherman Antitrust Act.

• 1918

  The first air mail route in the U.S. was established between New York and Washington, DC, with a stop at Philadelphia.

• 1930

  On a Boeing Air Transport flight between Oakland and Chicago, Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.

• 1940

  Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the United States.

• 1972

  Alabama Governor George Wallace was shot and crippled as he campaigned for the presidency.

• 1988

  The Soviet Union began to withdraw its estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.