Telephones - January 7
Please Hold for Learning
Friday, January 7, 2022
Today is National Trivia Day, World Braille Day, and National Spaghetti Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Telephones
ON THIS DATE
- 1610 - Galileo first observes the four largest moons of Jupiter, Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa.
- 1927 - The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London
- 1942 - World War II siege of Bataan begins.
- 1955 - Singer Marian Anderson made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
- 1959 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro
- 1979 - Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government.
- 1999 - The Senate impeachment trial of Bill Clinton begins.
- 2015 - Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris
BIRTHDAYS
- 1800 - 13th president Millard Fillmore
- 1830 - Painter Albert Bierstadt
- 1891 - Author Zora Neale Hurston
- 1899 - French composer Francis Poulenc
- 1912 - Cartoonist Charles Addams
- 1948 - Singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins
- 1957 - Journalist Katie Couric
Francis Poulenc - Melancolie, FP 105 - LISTEN- Blondie - Call Me - LISTEN
- Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe - LISTEN
- Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Lines - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street -The Martians Discover a Telephone (2:52)- VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Counting Telephone Rings with Ernie (2:02) - VIEW
- Grades 1-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Alexander Graham Bell (2:13) - VIEW and READ
- Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Alexander Graham Bell - Scientist, Inventor, and Teacher (Available in Spanish) (3:51)- VIEW
- Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Edison: From the Telephone and Telegraph Comes the Phonograph (3:52) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Telephone Museum (9:35) - VIEW
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