The Cuban Missile Crisis and Ada Lovelace - October 14
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Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Today is National Dessert Day, national lower case day, Chocolate Covered Insects Day, Spider-Man Day, Ada Lovelace Day, and National Face Your Fears Day.
Wild Animal Month Animal Cam of the Day: Georgia Aquarium African Penguin Cam
Dessert Month Dessert of the Day: Chocolate Cheesecake Squares
LGBT History Month Resource of the Day: L.A. A Queer History: Episode One - Culture and Criminalization
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1774 - The First Continental Congress denounces the British Parliament's Intolerable Acts and demands British concessions.
On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: The Cuban Missile Crisis, Ada Lovelace
- 1066 - The Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of Hastings.
- 1926 - Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne is published.
- 1933 - Nazi Germany announces it is withdrawing from the League of Nations.
- 1947 - Chuck Yeager, flying the Bell X-1 rocket plane, becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.
- 1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.
- 1964 - Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1644 - Pennsylvania founder William Penn
- 1890 - 34th President Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1893 - Actor Lillian Gish
- 1894 - Poet and New Hampshire summer resident E. E. Cummings
- 1927 - English actor Roger Moore
- 1939 - Fashion designer Ralph Lauren
- 1978 - Singer Usher
- Kenny Loggins - Return to Pooh Croner - LISTEN
THEME: CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
- Grades 7-12 - JFK Library - The Cuban Missile Crisis - READ and LISTEN
- Grades 7-12 - National Archives - One Step from Nuclear War - READ
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The Bomb -The Cuban Missile Crisis (5:21) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - JFK and Crisis: The Cuban Missile Crisis (2:56) - VIEW
THEME: ADA LOVELACE
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