March 16, 2026

 

• 3/16/26- Happy Monday!! 

• Word of the day-War Powers Act-1973 law limiting the President’s ability involve the U.S. in foreign conflicts w/o receiving formal declaration from Congress

• Quote of the day- “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom”-Thomas Jefferson 

• 1935– Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.

• 1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery.[28] The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.

2020 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second-largest percentage drop ever at 12.93%, an even greater crash than Black Monday (1929). This follows the U.S. Federal Reserve announcing that it will cut its target interest rate to 0–0.25%

Birthdays:

• 1967 – Lauren Graham, American actress and producer

• 1989– Blake Griffin, American basketball player

• 1999 – Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Canadian baseball player

• Today in-

• Periods 3, 9,10-(American I)-  Chapter 10 Test (makeups/finish) Chapter 11 section 1 notes.  ‘March to War’. Chapter 11 vocabulary-Due Tuesday 3/17/26.  Chapter 10 notes-Due Monday 3/23/26. 

Period 5-6/7-8-(American II) Chapter 17 section 3 notes. ‘Imperial Japan:The Fall of Democracy’.

Have a great day!

Mr. D