Announcements for Wednesday, January 4, 2012

1.       Today’s lunch is grilled cheese sandwich, assorted fruits and vegetables, and low-fat white or chocolate milk.

 

2.       On this day in 1999, for the first time since Charlemagne's reign in the ninth century, Europe is united with a common currency when the "euro" debuts as a financial unit in corporate and investment markets.

 

3.       7^th and 8^th grade Helping Hands members will meet today, Wednesday, Jan 4 during your activity period only in room 108.  Come if you can make it.

 

4.       Today in 1896, six years after Wilford Woodruff, president of the Mormon church, issued his Manifesto reforming political, religious, and economic life in Utah, the territory is admitted into the Union as the 45th state

 

5.       Today in 1974, President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over tape recordings and documents that had been subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee. Marking the beginning of the end of his Presidency, Nixon would resign from office in disgrace eight months later.