Space Shuttle Challenger - January 28
Learning About Our History
Sunday, January 28, 2024
Today is Christa McAuliffe Day, National Daisy Day, National Kazoo Day, Pop Art Day, and National Blueberry Pancake Day.
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Today's Theme: The Space Shuttle Challenger
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ON THIS DATE
- 1813 - Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published.
- 1915 - An act of Congress creates the Coast Guard.
- 1916 - Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jewish member of the Supreme Court.
- 1922- 100 people die in the Knickerbocker Hotel in Washington, DC after the roof collapses following a heavy snowstorm.
- 1986 - The Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board, including Concord, NH high school social studies teacher Christa McAullife.
- 1873 - French writer Colette
- 1884 - Swiss inventor, balloonist, deep-sea diver, and physicist Auguste Piccard, half of Gene Roddenberry's inspiration for the name of Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
- 1900 - Artist Alice Neel
- 1912 - Painter Jackson Pollock
- 1927 - Children's author and illustrator Vera Williams
- 1936 - Actor Alan Alda
- 1947 - NH Senator Jeanne Shaheen
- 1972 - Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett
- 1981 - Actor Elijah Wood
Minka - Jackson Pollock - LISTEN
THEME: The Space Shuttle Challenger
- Grades 4-12 - NASA - Challenger STS 51-L Accident January 28, 1986 - READ and VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - NASA - Space Shuttle Challenger Accident - READ and VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - ReadWriteThink - The Challenger Explosion Activities - DO
- Grades K-8 - The Challenger Center - Christa's Lost Lessons - READ, VIEW, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - NH Outlook - Christa's Living Legacy (26:25) - VIEW
- Grade 6-12 - Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Lesson Plan - READ and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Christa McAuliffe's Teacher in Space Interview (5:18) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - NH in Space (26:45) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Channel 3 Moscow - Space Shuttle Challenger (6:12) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barbara Morgan: No Limits (48:52) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Retro Report - Lessons From the Space Shuttle Challenger Tragedy (18:31) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Remembering Challenger, Disaster That Shook Up Space Flight (6:25) - VIEW
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