1. Lunch today will be BBQ Buffalo Chicken Pizza, assorted fruits and vegetables, low fat white or chocolate milk.
2. The 7th grade Volleyball team hosted the Upper Merion Vikings yesterday afternoon and in the process faced one of the most talented teams in southeastern Pennsylvania. The TE bulldogs played very well, however they were outmatched and were on the receiving end of a 2-0 shut-out.
3. Today in 1962, In a televised speech of extraordinary gravity, President John F. Kennedy announces that U.S. spy planes have discovered Soviet missile bases in Cuba. These missile sites—under construction but nearing completion—housed medium-range missiles capable of striking a number of major cities in the United States, including Washington, D.C. Kennedy announced that he was ordering a naval "quarantine" of Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from transporting any more offensive weapons to the island.
4. Today in 1797, the first parachute jump of note is made by André-Jacques Garnerin from a hydrogen balloon 3,200 feet above Paris. Leonardo da Vinci conceived the idea of the parachute in his writings, and the Frenchman Louis-Sebastien Lenormand fashioned a kind of parachute out of two umbrellas and jumped from a tree in 1783, but André-Jacques Garnerin was the first to design and test parachutes capable of slowing a man's fall from a high altitude.
