Tuesday, October 16

Good morning!

Today we will wrap up the Colonial power point

Current Events
Driver tried to lure girl near Nyack Middle School - LoHud

In shifting story, Saudi Arabia may admit dissident journalist is dead - NYT

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies at 65 - NYT

Today in History

  

• 1793

• French queen Marie Antoinette was guillotined for treason.

• 1859

  Abolitionist John Brown and his men captured the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry.

• 1916

  Margaret Sanger opened the first birth-control clinic in New York City.

• 1962

  The Cuban Missile Crisis began.

• 1964

  China detonated its first atomic bomb.

• 1978

  John Paul II was elected pope.

• 1995

  Hundreds of thousands of black men gathered in Washington for the "Million Man March" led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

• 2001

  Twelve Senate offices were closed when a letter to Sen. Tom Daschle was found to contain anthrax.

• 2002

  The White House announced that North Korea had disclosed the existence of a secret nuclear weapons program.