You Gotta Give Them Hope!!!!

 

Harvey Milk is an EXTRAORDINARY and AMAZING Human Being.  He was the first openly gay man to serve office in San Francisco.  He was such a stand for equality and hope.  I am so happy there are people in this world who stand for this no matter what!  In 2008 they made an incredible about Harvey Milk called Milk.  The scene below is from that movie:

Harvey Milk is threatened if he goes on stage he will be killed.  But he does it anyway!  And he reminds us that America is for everyone!  Our rights and freedoms are for EVERYONE!  No matter what!

Here is Milk's Hope Speech!  Amazing!

This Day In History

 

May 1, 1889

May Day was first observed as a labor holiday, designated as such by the International Socialist Congress.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/May-1

This Day In History

 

April 30, 1789

George Washington inaugurated

George Washington, the first president of the United States, was inaugurated on this day in 1789 in Federal Hall in New York City in front of a crowd of hundreds of people.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-30

This Day in History

 

April 29, 1945

American troops liberated tens of thousands of inmates at Nazi Germany's Dachau concentration camp.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-29

Heimler Review Times

 So many students across the country SWEAR they pass due to Heimler!  I would watch, and then on Thursday the 7th go to BED EARLY!  Getting a good night's rest is the BEST thing you can do!

This Day In History

 

April 28, 1967

At the height of the Vietnam War, boxer Muhammad Ali refused to be drafted into the U.S. Army, citing religious reasons; his subsequent conviction on criminal charges was eventually overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-28

This Day In History

 

April 27, 1521

Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan was killed during a fight with inhabitants of Mactan Island, Philippines.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-27

This Day In History

 

April 26, 1865

Twelve days after assassinating U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth was killed at a Virginia farm either by a Federal soldier or by his own hand.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-26

Great book about the hunt for John Wilkes Booth:

You Got This!!!!

 

This Day In History

 

April 25, 1990

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro became Central America's first female president as she was sworn into office in Nicaragua.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-25

This Day In History

 

April 24, 1949

Communist forces occupied the Chinese capital, Nanking (Nanjing), after crossing the Yangtze River virtually unopposed by adherents to the Nationalist government under President Chiang Kai-shek. The fall of Nanking marked the beginning of the disintegration of the Nationalist government, and the Chinese Civil War would end a few months later with the Communists in control of virtually all of mainland China.

Taken from:https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-24 

This Day In History

 

April 23, 1998

James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., died in prison at age 70.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-23

We go to the moon...because it is hard!

 

This Day In History

 

April 22, 2004

American football player Pat Tillman, who had left his lucrative NFL career to enlist in the army following the September 11 attacks, died in Afghanistan. Although initial reports claimed he was killed by enemy forces, it was eventually revealed that he had died in a friendly-fire incident.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-22

This Day In History

 

April 21, 1789

John Adams was sworn in as the first vice president of the United States, nine days before George Washington's presidential inauguration.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-21

This Day In History

 

April 20, 1999

Two students carried out a mass shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Fourteen people died and 21 were injured as a result of the attack.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-20

We will NEVER Forget!!!

 

31 years ago on April 19, 1995 the Federal Building was blown up in OKC.  Up to this point this was the worst terrorist attack on American Soil.  Now after 9/11 it is the worst domestic terrorist attack.  I was in 7th grade when this happened.  And I remember the news said this had to be an Islamic Terrorist.  Who would do this?  Then America got their first glimpse of the man who blew up this building and killed 168 people - 19 of whom were children!  America felt lied to.  The bomber - Timothy McVeigh - who was white, Christian, and a veteran of America's military.  Why would he do this?  He was upset with the Government - especially Waco.  Look what is anger did!

This happened in our backyard.  People in Tulsa felt the shock of the explosion.  The site is now a Memorial and museum.  You should go if you can!

This Day In History

 

April 18, 1775

Silversmith and folk hero Paul Revere made a dramatic ride on horseback to warn Boston-area residents of an imminent attack by British troops, a day before the American Revolution began with a battle at Lexington.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-18

This Day In History

 

April 17, 1961

Fidel Castro's forces repelled the Bay of Pigs invasion, which was led by recent Cuban exiles and financed by the U.S. government during the Cold War.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-17

STUDY for AP Exam!

 

The test is 23 days away!  If you have not started to STUDY - now is the time!  Here is a FUN video!  Enjoy, and I hope you laugh a little too!

This Day In History

 

April 16, 1962

Walter Cronkite became anchor of the CBS Evening News, a position he held for nearly two decades, during which time he became known as “the most trusted man in America.”

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-16

This Day In History

 

April 15, 1912

The sinking of the unsinkable Titanic

On this day in 1912, the British luxury passenger liner Titanic sank en route to New York City from Southampton in England, after striking an iceberg during its maiden voyage. Of the approximately 2,200 people on board, some 1,500 people died, with the ship's crew and third-class passengers experiencing the most losses.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-15

This Day In History

 

April 14, 1939

John Steinbeck's classic novel The Grapes of Wrath—which was set during the Great Depression and traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farmworkers—was published.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-14

Houston we have a problem!

 

This Day In History

 

April 13, 1943

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial was dedicated in East Potomac Park on the south bank of the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-13

This Day In History

 

April 12, 1851


Fort Sumter, one of the few military installations in the South still in Federal hands, came under fire from Confederate guns in Charleston, South Carolina, thus initiating the American Civil War.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-12

This Day In History

 

April 11, 1970

Apollo 13 was launched from Cape Kennedy (now Cape Canaveral), Florida; although scheduled to be the third lunar landing, the mission was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded en route to the Moon.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-11

Japanese Internment Camps

 

For the APUSH Exam you MUST know what America is doing home and abroad.  One of the worst things America did was forcing 120,000 Japanese Americans to live in Internment camps across the nation.  Americans were xenophobic, and afraid after Pearl Harbor there would be another homeland attack, or Japanese Americans were spying and telling secrets to Japan. Thankfully it was only till 1945, but dang that was too long.  President Roosevelt said it was his biggest mistake as President issuing this Executive Order, and he regretted it!

Below is George Takei's TED Talk.  He is a famous actor best known as Sulu in Star Trek.  He was 4 years old  when his family was interred.  It is an AMAZING Talk that would be worth the watch!

This Day In History

 

April 10, 1957

The courtroom classic 12 Angry Men was released in the United States; it starred Henry Fonda as a juror who tries to convince the others that the accused murderer may be innocent.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-10

This Day In History

 

April 9, 1939

Contralto Marian Anderson gave a concert to an Easter Sunday crowd of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow her to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., because she was Black.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-9

This Day In History

 

April 8, 1820

The Venus de Milo is found

The Venus de Milo, one of the most famous ancient statues in the world, was found in pieces on this day in 1820 on the Aegean island of Melos. Those bits were collected and shipped to France, presented to King Louis XVIII, reconstructed, and put on display in the Louvre. The statue is commonly thought to represent Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty, though some have suggested it's the sea goddess Amphitrite. The arms have never been found.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-8

Your thoughts create your world!

 

This Day In History

 

April 7, 1915

Billie Holiday, one of the greatest American jazz singers from the 1930s to the '50s, was born in Philadelphia.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-7

This Day In History

 

April 6, 2009

American basketball player Michael Jordan, widely considered the game's greatest all-around player, was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-6