Bison

Learning on the Plains

Saturday, November 7, 2020

Today is Bison Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Bison
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ON THIS DATE

• 1874 - A  Thomas Nast cartoon in Harper's Weekly first uses the elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party.
• 1911 - Marie Curie is awarded a Nobel Prize in chemistry. It is her second Nobel Prize. Eight years earlier she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. 
• 1913  - The first day of the massive blizzard known as the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, which killed 250 individuals.
• 1916 - Montana republican Jeannette Rankin becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
• 1916 - Woodrow Wilson (D) defeats former Governor of New York Charles Evans Hughes (R) and is reelected as President.
• 1916 - 46 people are killed when the Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge and plunge into the Fort Point Channel.
• 1917 - Russian Bolshevik forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrow the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
• 1944 - FDR defeats Thomas E. Dewey and is elected to a record fourth term as President.
• 1954 - Armistice Day becomes Veterans Day.
• 1967 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, creating the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
• 1972 - President Richard Nixon (R) defeats George McGovern (D) and is re-elected President.
• 1989 - Douglas Wilder of Virginia becomes the first elected African American governor in the U.S. 
• 1991 - Basketball player Magic Johnson announces that he is HIV-positive.
• 2006 - Minnesota democrat  Keith Ellison becomes the first Muslim elected to Congress.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1728 - English captain and navigator James Cook
• 1867 - French chemist and physicist Marie Curie
• 1878 - Austrian physicist Lise Meitner
• 1879 - Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky
• 1913 - French novelist and philosopher Albert Camus
• 1918 - Minister Billy Graham
• 1943 - Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell

SONGS OF THE DAY 
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth - LISTEN
Roger Miller - You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd - LISTEN
Bob Marley - Buffalo Soldier - LISTEN
Pete Seeger - Buffalo Gals - LISTEN
Bruce Springsteen - Buffalo Gals - LISTEN

THEME:  Bison

• Grades K-12 - PBS LearningMedia - San Diego Zoo Kids - The Mighty Mighty Bison - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - USDA - Bison Live Camera - VIEW
• Grades 3-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Bison Roadblock - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - American Bison - READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Buffalo Survival - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Winter World of Wolves and Buffalo - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - America's Heartland - Bringing Back the Bison - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - The Age of Nature - European Bison Roam Poland's Bialowieza Forest - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Restoring Bison on the Minnesota Prairie - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - How Scientists Brought Bison Back to Banff - VIEW

Watch 

• 8-9 pm NH WORLD - African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross - The Black Atlantic (1500-1800)
• 9-10 pm NH WORLD - African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross - The Age Of Slavery (1800-1860)

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