5. 8. 18. U. S. HISTORY ON THIS DAY: 1886 - Pharmacist Dr 5.8.18 U.S. HISTORY ON THIS DAY: 1886 - Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called "Coca-Cola.“ 1914 - The U.S. Congress passed a Joint Resolution that designated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day. 1945 –VE Day U.S. President Harry Truman announced that World War II had ended in Europe. 1958 - U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school. 1959 - Mike and Marian Ilitch founded "Little Caesars Pizza Treat". 1960 - Diplomatic relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union resumed. 1973 - Militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered. AGENDA: CONTINUE THE ERNEST GREEN STORY & WORKSHEET. RETAKES WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: TEST 6:30 & QUIZ 6:45 HOMEWORK: WORK ON UNIT VOCABULARY. BELL WORK: #1 WAS GOVERNOR FAUBUS’S DECISION TO CALL OUT THE NATIONAL GUARD RIGHT? EXPLAIN
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Exit Ticket #2 What was the hardest part of being one of the Little Rock Nine? Explain your answer