Today in history

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Today in history bell ringers are a fantastic way to start your social studies classes because they help engage your students from the minute they enter your classroom!

Sadly, the Ambassador Hotel, where Bobby Kennedy was shot in the early hours of June 5, 1968, no longer stands. And as Patt Morrison writes, that's a shame: Imagine studying American history within the very walls where Richard Nixon wrote the "Checkers" speech that saved his political bacon. But the Kennedy family pretty much wanted the place razed and the ground sown with salt. Coupled with the LAUSD's desperate need for classrooms, it was adios, Ambassador. The first of the three new…

The War of 1812 brought the United States onto the world's stage in a conflict that ranged throughout the American Northeast, Midwest, and Southeast, into...

Help your students gain knowledge of important world events and influential people with these history bell-ringers to last you the entire year! Each slide gives students information about an interesting historical or cultural event/person related to every single date in the year. Also included is a weekly activity where students can record the information they learn and do further research on the topic. Use as weekly assignment or as an enrichment activity. Although this would be ideal in a…

This Day in History 2013 The city of Detroit, Michigan filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy. It is the largest municipal bankruptcy in the history of the United States. 2012 Died: Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, …

Clipping found in The Tampa Bay Times published in St. Petersburg, Florida on 6/6/1944. Headlines from a United States newspaper about the Normandy Landings on D-Day, 1944

1. There have been 5 attempts to ban coffee throughout history, the last attempt being in 1777 by Frederick the Great of Prussia who issued a manifesto declaring beer’s superiority over coffee. He believed that coffee interfered with the country’s beer consumption.

Words of wisdom from Nikola Tesla: "There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact."