Thursday, January 3

Good morning!

Today we will look at Transportation Revolution of early/mid 1800s

Current Events
Bernard LeGeros paroled 30 years after Stony Point murder - LoHud

Pelosi and Democrats to retake House today - NYT

Today in History
1521

• Martin Luther excommunicated by Pope Leo X.

• 1777

  George Washington defeated Cornwallis's forces at the Battle of Princeton.

• 1833

  Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands.

• 1870

  Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge began.

• 1920

  The New York Yankees acquired Babe Ruth and so began the "curse of the Bambino" that haunted the Boston Red Sox until 2004.

• 1947

  Congressional proceedings were televised for the first time.

• 1958

  Sir Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole overland.

• 1959

  Alaska became the 49th state in the United States.

• 1962

  Pope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro.

• 1967

  Jack Ruby, the man who shot John Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, died.

• 1987

  Aretha Franklin became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

• 1990

  Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces.