Thursday, November 8

Good morning!

Today we will work on the Preamble and Articles of the US Constitution

Current Events
At least 13 dead in California bar shooting - NYT

Google plans expansion in NYC West Village; Amazon building in Queens - NYT

Trump forces Sessions to resign - NYT

Razor Blade found in Halloween candy in Stony Point - LoHud

Today in History

• 1889

  Montana became the 41st state.

• 1892

  Former president Grover Cleveland beat incumbent Benjamin Harrison and became the only president to win nonconsecutive terms in the White House.

• 1923

  Adolf Hitler attempted, and failed, to seize control of the German government in the Beer Hall Putsch.

• 1960

  John F. Kennedy defeated Richard M. Nixon for the presidency of the United States.

• 1966

  Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction.

• 1994

  After a 40-year Democrat domination, the Republican Party gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as a Senate majority.