Hubble Telescope- April 24

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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Today is World Laboratory Day, Administrative Professional's Day, Denim Day, International Guide Dog Day, National Pigs-in-a Blanket Day, New Kids on the Block Day, and Sauvignon Blanc Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Hubble Telescope
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ON THIS DATE

• 1800 - President John Adams established the Library of Congress when he signs legislation to allocate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
• 1898 - Spain declares war on the United States.
• 1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1904 - Painter Willem de Kooning
• 1905 - Novelist and poet Robert Penn Warren
• 1934 - Actor Shirley MacLaine
• 1942 - Singer and actor Barbra Streisand

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Beatles -  Across the Universe - LISTEN
• The Beastie Boys - Intergalactic - LISTEN

POEMS OF THE DAY 
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Light of Stars 
Megan Snyder-Camp - Repairing the Hubble Telescope 

THEME:  Hubble Telescope

• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - The Hubble Telescope (3:09) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NASA - Hubble Space Telescope Site - VIEW and READ
• Grades 4-12 - NASA - Hubble Space Telescope - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Hubble and the Expanding Universe - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Hubble Telescope: Looking Deep (Available in Spanish) (2:19) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Swift and  Hubble Probe an Asteroid Crash (Available in Spanish) (1:46) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - What Hubble Taught Us About the Planets (Available in Spanish) (4:46) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Hubble Data Used to Look 10,000 Years into the Future (1:33) - VIEW

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