Monday’s Early Show Prep – May 7, 2018

 Thanks, CDC — Your tweet about ticks has ruined poppyseed muffins for many people!
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On This Day, Back In The Day
  • 1824 – Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premiered in Vienna

  • 1915 – A German U-Boat sinks the Lusitania – almost 2000 people were killed as the ship sank in just 20 minutes

  • 1992 – The 27th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified. — Remember what it did? 

  • 1994 – Edvard Munch’s iconic painting, ‘The Scream’ is recovered after being stolen five months earlier from a museum in Oslo, Norway 

BIG STORIES OUT OF D.C. AND POLITICS.

GENERAL NEWS STORIES 
 
OTHER STORIES CATCHING MY EYE