May 9, 2025

 

• 5/9/25- Happy Friday!! TGIF!!

• Word of the day-Manhattan Project-secret American program during WWII to develop an atomic bomb

• Quote of the day- “Men are what their mothers made them”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

• 1955– Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.

• 1960 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control announces it will approve birth control an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.

1974– Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.

Birthdays:

• 1940– James L. Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1946– Candice Bergen, American actress and producer

• 1949– Billy Joel, American singer-songwriter and pianist

• Today in-

• Periods 3, 9,10-(American I)- Chapter 11 section 3 notes. ‘Blood and Glory’

• Period 5-6/7-8-(American II)- Chapter 17 Packets-Due Friday 5/9/25. (Counts as Test Grade) 

• ***ALL CLASSES- APRIL WORDS/QUOTES ARE DUE FRIDAY 5/9/25!!!

• Have a good weekend!

• Mr. D