Monday, November 5th

Good morning!

Today we will examine the creation of the US Constitution

Current Events
Over 5,000 rabbis attend conference at RCC this past weekend - LoHud

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US soldier, mayor of North Ogden, Utah, killed in Afghanistan - NYT

Today in History

• 1605

  The Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Parliament failed.

• 1872

  Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for trying to vote in the presidential election (she was trying to vote for President Grant).

• 1895

  George B. Selden of Rochester, N.Y., received the first U.S. patent for an automobile.

• 1940

  President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office when he defeated Wendell L. Willkie.

• 1968

  The first black woman representative to serve in Congress, Shirley Chisholm, was elected.

• 1974

  Ella T. Grasso became the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.

• 1989

  Pianist Vladimir Horowitz died in New York at age 85.

• 1994

  At 45, George Foreman, became the oldest heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas.

• 2011

  Former Penn State defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, is arrested on charges of 40 counts of sexual abuse over a 15-year period.