Wednesday, November 28

Good morning!

Today we will finish Washington and examine the presidencies of Adams and Jefferson.

Current Events
HIV rates at all time high in Europe - CNN

Chinese scientist defends work on gene edited babies that sparked global outrage - CNN

Today in History

1520

Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan passed through the strait which bears his name to the Pacific ocean.

• 1919

  American-born Lady Astor became the first woman to take a seat on the British Parliament.

• 1942

  Almost 500 people died in the Coconut Grove nightclub fire in Boston.

• 1943

  Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met in Tehran for their first meeting during World War II.

• 1964

  The U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 launched—on its way to the first successful mission to Mars.

• 1990

  Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister of Great Britain; John Major took over.