History Happening Today             February 27, 2020

BUG GIRL

• Sofia Spencer is a girl from Toronto, Canada.
• She is very interested in bugs but was continually bullied because of it.
• She is now a published book author and has one finished book, called THE BUG GIRL, telling about her story and how she was able to overcome the bullying.

History Happening Today                  February 23, 2020

Locusts in Somalia

Large swarms of locusts spread across east Africa into Somalia. One of the biggest invasions since 1950. The outbreak has destroyed about 100 00 hectares of farmland. It is the wet year and warm temperate that has caused the outbreak. Officials are worried about Somalia’s food insecurity. The Government has a plan to use chemicals.

Groundhogs Disagree

• Three groundhogs named Shubenacadie Sam, Wiarton Willie, and Fred La Marmotte made big presentations on groundhog day.
• On groundhog day their predictions were all different. 
• In Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Ontario three groundhogs emerged out of their holes.Two of them saw their shadow and one did not.
•  People were confused about whether it was an early spring, or six more weeks of winter.
• These groundhogs have been wrong before..... so why are we all so surprised at this?       

HHT February 20, 2020

Scientists Discover a New Type of Northern Lights

• Northern Lights are the colourful lights that you sometimes see in the sky at night. The Northern Lights are also known as the Aurora Borealis.
• These new Northern Lights are called "dunes."
• They come in many colours, but mainly white and purple
• The dunes are believed to be caused by waves of oxygen atoms that are glowing due to a stream of particles released from the sun

Super Bowl 54

• The Kansas City Chiefs played the San Fransisco 49ers in Super Bowl 54.
• The Super Bowl was played in Miami Gardens, Flordia.
• Kansas City won the American Football Conference (AFC) and San Fransisco won the National Football Conference (NFC) with both teams advancing to the Super Bowl.
• The Super Bowl was played on February 2nd, 2020.
• The final score was 31-20 with Kansas City winning their first Super Bowl since the American Football League and National Football League Championship game existed. 

History Happening Today             February 19, 2020

Easter Island Statues

- On February 6, 2020 archeologists from Binghamton University found evidence that the Easter Island heads (or Moai Heads) were made about 300 years later than was originally believed.

- The team was lead by Robert J. DiNapoloe.

- They found evidence that supports the theory that the Spanish fabricated the story that the natives were almost all gone. They made this up because they suffered a great defeat, and they didn't want to go home as fools.

- The heads are believed to be signs to their gods.

-The heads are on a South American Pacific Island called  Rapa Nui.


Saskatchewan CP Train Derailment

-On Feb.6th, a train was reported derailed in SK. This is the second derailment in the last 2months. 

-That morning the train spilled over 1.2 million litres of oil.

-People are now changing the speed of the trains to 35 miles per hour while carrying dangerous goods or with more than 20 cars.

History Made At The Oscars

- Bong Joon Ho won 6 awards for his movie "Parasite"
-Ho was the winner in the following categories: Best Picture, Best Foreign-Language Movie, Best Screenplay and more. 
- Hair Love won for the Best Animated short film
- Billie Eilish performed The Beatles' "Yesterday" with her brother Finneas O'Connell

Update on The Coronavirus-Covid 19

• Covid-19 is a very rapid spreading disease
• Covid-19 originated in China and is spreading worldwide
• 45 000 cases have been reported, 1 115 deaths, and 8 cases reported in Canada
• Covid-19 may or may not have come from contaminated fish, or bats
• Scientists have recently found a virus in bats that is very similar to the coronavirus

HHT February 10, 2020

      75th Anniversary of Auschwitz

• Auschwitz was the largest Nazi concentration camp, known as the "Final Solution"
• Between 1.1 and 1.5 million people died; 90% were Jewish
• June 14, 1940, the first prisoners arrived
• January 27, 1945....7650 sick and starving prisoners were rescued by Soviet troops
• January 18, 1945, approximately 60,000 prisoners were made to walk in what they now call "death marches". The old and the weak were shot if they fell behind.
• January 27, 2020, is the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
• Over 200 survivors will be in attendance
• Many survivors educate others to keep the memory of what happened alive so that this kind of history will never be forgotten.                                                     

    2019-novel Coronavirus 

•  The Coronavirus is the same virus as colds, SARS, and MERS. 
• It is transmitted from animals to humans. 
• The Coronavirus outbreak started in Wuhan, the capital oh Hubei, in China at a seafood market.
• The first signs of Coronavirus were on December 31st and the new virus was announced on January 7th.  
• Symptoms are fevers and coughing, and basic cold type symptoms.  

    The life and legacy of Kobe Bryant

• Kobe played for the L.A. Lakers for almost his whole career.
• He chose to be nicknamed the Black Mamba.
• He was always generous and ready to help when people were in need of aid in their life
• he had been living the life up until his sad and immediate demise.
• he retired early in 2016 being only in his 40s.
• he created a gym named the Black Mamba where he helped people who were coming into the NBA train.

HHT Feb. 6, 2020

New Stamp

• January 23, 2020, was the unveiling of the new stamp from Canada Post.
• The unveiling was done in Cherry Brook, Nova Scotia.
• On the stamp was the winning team for the Coloured Hockey Championship in 1904.
• Back then, hockey had white teams and coloured teams and the coloured players were rarely acknowledged by professionals 

Bell Let's Talk

• On January 29th, 2020 another Annual Bell Let's Talk Day was held.
• Bell Let's Talk Day was created by Clara Hughes in January 2011 to raise awareness about mental health.
•  You can support this all Canadian fundraiser by sharing, retweeting, using the branded hashtag, or via texting. Each share donates 5 cents towards mental health organizations.
• It started with the initiative of donating 50 million dollars and so far has raised 25 million.