Tuesday, October 2

Good morning!

Today we will wrap up the beginning of the colonies

Current Events
Suez water bills to be cut by as much as $35 a year - LoHud

Rockland taxes to rise by 2.9 percent next year - LoHud

New national maps show how neighborhoods shape children for life - NYT

Today in History

• 1919

  President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke, which left him partially paralyzed.

• 1944

  The two-month-long Warsaw Uprising was squelched by Nazi troops battling the Polish underground.

• 1950

  The "Peanuts" comic strip, by Charles M. Schultz, first appeared in newspapers.

• 1958

  Guinea proclaimed its independence from France.

• 1967

  Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

• 1998

  Gene Autry, the singing cowboy and former owner of the Anaheim Angels baseball team, died at age 91.