Monday, December 10th

Good morning!

Today we will work on Clay's American System power point

Current Events
Rockland man guarded Bush's casket - LoHud

Today in History

• 1817

  Mississippi became the 20th state in the United States.

• 1869

  The territory of Wyoming authorized women to vote and hold office.

• 1901

  The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.

• 1948

  The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

• 1950

  Dr. Ralph Bunche became the first black to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.

• 1964

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., received the Nobel Peace Prize.

• 1999

  Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee was arrested and charged with stealing classified information.

• 2004

  A U.S. passenger jet landed in Vietnam, the first one to do so since the Vietnam War ended nearly three decades earlier.