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Thursday, April 3, 2025

This Day In History

 


U.S. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall secretly leased federal oil reserves to the Mammoth Oil Company in return for cash gifts in the Teapot Dome Scandal.

April 7, 1922

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

This Day In History

 


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

April 6, 2009

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




Extra Credit Opportunity

 


You will get Extra Credit if you:

Go to Chipotle on Cherry Street (15th and Utica)

on Saturday, April 5, 2025 from 4 pm to 8 pm

Remind them of the fundraiser!

On Monday bring me a receipt proving you bought something (that is your evidence) with your name on it.

This is for the Football Team!!! 

This Day In History

 



American educator and reformer Booker T. Washington, who notably was the first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University), was born in Virginia.

April 5, 1856

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-5

A Broken Record!

 


This Day In History

 


Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated
On this day in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., a leader of the American civil rights movement who was in Memphis, Tennessee, to support a strike by the city's sanitation workers, was assassinated by James Earl Ray.

April 4, 1968

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-4




This Day In History

 


Implementation of the Marshall Plan
On this day in 1948, U.S. President Harry S. Truman signed into law George C. Marshall's post-World War II plan to revive the economies of western and southern European countries so as to foster democracy in the region.

April 3, 1948

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-3


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