January 17, 2025

 

• 1/17/25- Happy Friday!! TGIF!!

• Word of the day-Segregation - The policy or practice of separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups

• Quote of the day- “Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten”- Martin Luther King Jr.

• 1377– Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.

• 1945– The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.

1961– U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex".

• Birthdays:

• 1939 – Maury Povich, American talk show host and producer

• 1964– Michelle Obama1964 – Michelle Obama, Former First Lady of the United States

• 1984 – Calvin Harris, Scottish singer-songwriter, DJ, and producer

• Today in-

• Periods 3, 9,10-(American I)- Chapter 8 section 2notes. ‘Railroads’/IR-Euro. 

• Period 5-6/7-8-(American II)- Chapter 12 section 5 notes. ‘Peacemakers’ Chapter 12 Test-Wednesday 1/22/25

• ***Quarter 2 ends 1/22/25 in here*** Anything after 1/22/25 will count for Quarter 3

• Have a good weekend!

• Mr. D