Thursday, April 10, 2025
This Day In History
Abraham Lincoln shot
On this day in 1865, just after the effective end of the American Civil War, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending a production at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., and died the next morning.
April 14, 1865
Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-14
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The Thomas Jefferson Memorial was dedicated in East Potomac Park on the south bank of the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.
April 13, 1943
Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-13
This Day In History
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.
April 12, 1861
Taken from:https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-12
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025
This Day In History
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.
April 10, 1957
Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-10
Monday, April 7, 2025
This Day In History
Fall of Baghdad
Baghdad fell to U.S.-led forces on this day in 2003, several weeks after the start of the Iraq War, a conflict begun to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein because of his supposed possession of weapons of mass destruction.
April 9, 2003
Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-9
Participating in YOUR Democracy
Civil Disobedience was on full display this weekend. An estimated 3.5 Million Americans assembled and rallied against Trump and Musk. That is what is hard about America! Everyone has a voice and the constitutional right to assemble and protest even if you do not like it.
Henry David Thoreau wrote and came up with the idea of Civil Disobedience. Non Violent Resistance. Thoreau was upset about the Mexican American War, and refused to pay his taxes. He did not want to give one dime to the war so he did not pay his taxes. He was thrown into jail. Do NOT forget there are consequences for your actions!
Here are some famous Disobedience moments:
Sit - ins of the 1960s
Dr. King Jr. went to prison 29 times!
This Saturday, April 5th, at the Hands Off Rally! Americans participate in their democracy:
This Day In History
Venus de Milo, an ancient statue commonly thought to represent Aphrodite, was found in pieces on the Aegean island of Melos; it was later reconstructed and put on display in the Louvre, Paris.
April 8, 1920
Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-8
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
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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
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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
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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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