Monday, Sept 24

Good morning!

Today we will wrap up Roanoke, Jamestown, Plymouth and begin to look at 13 colonies

Current Events
Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh, accuser to testify to Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday - NYT

Tiger Woods wins first golf tournament in 5 years - NYT

Opinion - Let Teenagers Sleep in - NYT

Today in History

• 1789

  Congress passed the First Judiciary Act which provided for a U.S. attorney general and the Supreme Court.

• 1957

  The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field.

• 1960

  The Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched.

• 1969

  The trial of the "Chicago Eight," radical antiwar and counterculture activists accused of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic convention, began.

• 1991

  Children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, died at age 87.

• 1996

  The United States and the world's other major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.