Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play Major League Baseball, was born on this date in 1919. Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 and played for the team for nine years. He was voted the National League’s Most Valuable Player in 1949, and he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. Robinson died October 24, 1972.

Click here to read more about Robinson’s career and his other contributions to baseball.

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Challenger Explodes - 1986

In 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, 74 seconds after launching from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. All seven astronauts on board were killed, including teacher Christa MacAuliffe, who was to have been the first U.S. civilian in space. Hundreds of millions of people around the world watched the explosion on television.

You know how there are those events in your life that you will always remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when it happened? Well, the Challenger explosion was one of those moments for me. I was a junior in High School in Los Angeles, California and I was home sick from school. The launch was a huge deal because of the fact that it was going to be the first time a civilian would go into space, and I was watching it live in my family room. I couldn't believe what I was seeing as the shuttle exploded and broke into pieces. You could still hear radio transmissions coming from people at mission control with status reports as the pieces were falling to earth.

Leave a comment if there is an event you'll never forget.

Mr. C.

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Happy Birthday Legos!

It is Lego's 50th anniversary! Here is a link to everything lego!

Lucy

Have More Heart - by Evan

I found some links for the blog about the heart.

First, go to this web address and you should be in the video section. Then go to the search bar that is next to Top Stories and type in heart. Now you should find a video that says Rebuilding A Baby’s Heart and that’s the video.

Next, perform open heart surgery at this site!

Finally, take this heart quiz. It covers everything we've learned so far in class!

Lewis Carroll's Birthday

Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who was a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Oxford. He is best known as the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which he wrote to entertain Alice Liddell, the daughter of a friend. Carroll wrote other children’s books, nonsense poems (including “Jabberwocky”), and a book on mathematics. He died on January 14, 1898.

Explore tons of Alice-inspired activities at this interactive site!

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