Wednesday, May 2

Good morning!

Today we will view - America, Story of US - Superpower

Current Events
Companies want millennials; see the perks they are offering - THR

Mosquito and tick populations are surging - NYT

Today in History

• 1885

  Good Housekeeping magazine went on sale for the first time.

• 1939

  Lou Gehrig established a new major-league baseball record when he played his 2,130th consecutive game. It would take another 57 years before Cal Ripken, Jr., broke it.

• 1945

  The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin.

• 1955

  Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

• 1969

  The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II departed on her maiden voyage to New York.

• 1994

  Nelson Mandela was victorious in South Africa’s first multiracial election.

• 1997

  The Labour Party’s Tony Blair became Prime Minister of Britain, ending 18 years of conservative rule. At 44, he was the youngest prime minister in 185 years.

• 2011

  U.S. troops and CIA operatives shot and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

• 2012

  A pastel version of The Scream, by painter Edvard Munch, sold for $120 million in a New York City auction. The transaction set a new world record for an auctioned piece of art.