Marie Curie - November 7

First Lady of Science

Sunday, November 7, 2021

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On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Marie Curie
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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 plunges 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 

• Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi and Both Side Now - LISTEN

THEME: MARIE CURIE

• Grades K-4 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Marie Curie's Science Dream (1:47) - VIEW
• Grades: K-4 - Xavier Riddle and The Secret Museum -  Marie Curie (2:15) - VIEW and READ
• Grades 3-8 - Spot on Science - Fearless Female Scientists (5:07) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS Learning Media - The Medicine Women - A Pellet of Poison (3:57) - VIEW and DO
• Grade 7-12 - PBS NewsHour - The Day Marie Curie Got Snubbed by the French Science World - READ

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• 6-6:30 am NHPBS - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Mister Rogers Talks About Art
• 6:30-7 am NHPBS -  Molly of Denali - Mouse In The Treehouse/Leader Of The Pack
• 7-7:30 am NHPBS - Let's Go Luna! - D'orsay Day/Honey In Paris
• 7:30-8 am NHPBS -  Arthur - Maria Speaks/Postcards From Binky
• 8-8:30 am NHPBS -  Curious George - Fly Paper/Fix It, Monkey!
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS -  Nature Cat - Flamingo-A-Go-Go/What A Tangled Web
• 9-9:30 am NHPBS -  SciGirls - Game Changers
• 9:30-10 am NHPBS - Cyberchase - Pursuit Of The Prism Of Powe
• 10:30-11 am NHPBS - Odd Squad - O Is Not For Over
• 1-2 pm NHPBS - Nova - NOVA Universe Revealed: Milky Way
• 2-3 pm NHPBS - Nature - The Elephant And The Termite
• 3-4 pm NHPBS - Secrets of the Dead - The First Circle Of Stonehenge
• 5-6:30 pm NHPBS - Independent Lens - Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World
• 7-8 pm NHPBS -  Armed with Language

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• 6-7 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  The Oratorio: A Documentary with Martin Scorsese
• 7-8 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Da Ponte's Oratorio: A Concert for New York
• 8-9 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Chasing Voices
• 9-9:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Return: Native American Women Reclaim Foodways For Health and  Spirit
• 9:30-11 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Independent Lens - Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World

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• 8-9 am NH WORLD - America ReFramed - On A Knife Edge
• 8-9 pm NH WORLD -  Nature - The Elephant And The Termite

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