H.I.T.S

Remember HIT's are due Wednesday.  Remember you must respond to 2 of this weeks HIT's.  Explain 
the event, which themes of history(PERSIA-Political, Economic, Religious, Social, Intellectual, Artistic) are being addressed, how it relates to the world 
and the country today, and which goal within the Standard Course of Study is being addressed 
with this HIT.

WEEK 11

Tuesday(11/10): 11/11- 1918 The allies and Germany signed an armistice ending WWI.

Wednesday(11/11): Veteran's Day

Thursday(11/12): 1954 Ellis Island stopped serving as the chief immigration station for the U.S.

Friday(11/13): 1942 The minimum draft age was lowered from 21 to 18.

Monday(11/16): 1864 General Sherman and his troops began their "March to the Sea" during the Civil War.

WEEK 10

Monday(11/2): 1948 "Dewey Defeats Truman" OOPS- Truman defeats Dewey.

Tuesday(11/3): 1903 Panama proclaimed its independence from Columbia.

Wednesday(11/4): 1979 American embassy in Tehran was seized by Islamic students and took 90 Americans hostage.

Thursday(11/5): 1940 FDR elected to an unprecedented third term.

Friday(11/6): NONE

Monday(11/9): 1989 Borders between East and West Germany are opened. The next day, the Wall began to be dismantled.

WEEK 8

Wednesday(10/14): 1964 MLK wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

Thursday(10/15): 1914 The Clayton Anti-Trust Act was passed.

Friday(10/16): 1859 John Brown captured the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry.

Monday(10/19): 1960 The U.S. imposes a partial embargo on goods exported to Cuba.

Tuesday(10/20): 1944 General Douglas MacArthur returns to the Philippines during WWII.

WEEK 7

Wednesday(10/7): 2001 U.S. and British forces launch bombing campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Thursday(10/8): 1871 The Great Fire of Chicago started.

Friday(10/9): 1845 The U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Md.

Monday(10/12): 1960 Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev created a disturbance at the U.N. by pounding his desk with his shoe.

Tuesday(10/13): 1943 Italy declared war on Germany during WWII.

WEEK 6

Wednesday(9/30): 1949 The Berlin Airlift came to an end.

Thursday(10/1): 1908 Henry Ford introduced the first mass-produced automobile on the market-the Model T.

Friday(10/2): 1967 Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black Supreme Court justice.

Monday(10/5): 1947 President Truman delivers the first televised White House address.

Tuesday(10/6): 1927 "The Jazz Singer", the first full-length talking picture, debuted.

WEEK 5

Wednesday(9/23): NONE

Thursday(9/24): 1991 Children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel died at age 87.

Friday(9/25): from 26th. 1960 Richard M. Nixon and John Kennedy took part in the first televised presidential debate.

Monday(9/28): from 27th. 1964 The Warren Commission report concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

Tuesday(9/29): 1982 Seven people died after taking Extra Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide.

WEEK 4

Wednesday(9/16): 1908 General Motors was founded by William C. Durant

Thursday(9/17): 1862 The bloodiest day in U.S. military history occurred at the Battle of Antietam

Friday(9/18): 1850 Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act which required the return of escaped slaves to their owners.

Monday(9/21): 1938 A hurricane struck New York killing more than 600.

Tuesday(9/22): 1862 President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.

WEEK  3

Wednesday(9/9): 1850 California became the 31st state.

Thursday(9/10): 1846 Elias Howe of Massachusetts received a patent for his sewing machine.

Friday(9/11): 1789 Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first secretary of treasury.

Monday(9/14): 1940 Congress passed the Selective Service Act providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. History.

Tuesday(9/15): 1963 A church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama killed four young black girls.

WEEK 2

Wednesday(9/2): Vice President Theodore Roosevelt gave his "speak softly and carry a big stick" speech.

Thursday(9/3): 1976 The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking II landed on Mars and took pictures of the planet.

Friday(9/4): 1957 Nine black students attempted to Little Rock High School but wer blocked by the National Guard.

Monday(9/7): Labor Day

Tuesday(9/8): 1974 President Ford gave President Nixon a full pardon for all federal crimes he may have committed while in office.

WEEK 1

Wednesday(8/26): 1920 The 19th Amendment went into effect.

Thursday(8/27): 1859 Edwin Drake drilled the first successful oil well in U.S. in Titusville, Pa.

Friday(8/28): 1963 MLK gives his famous "I have a dream speech".

Monday(8/31): 1887 Thomas Edison received a patent for his "Kinetoscope" and moving pictures were born.

Tuesday(9/1): 1939 World War II begins when Nazi Germany invades Poland.