Earth's Rotation - January 8

Saturday, January 8, 2022

Today is Bubble Bath Day, Argyle Day, Earth's Rotation Day, and National English Toffee Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Earth's Rotation

ON THIS DATE

• 1790 - George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address.
• 1815 Forces led by Andrew Jackson defeat the British in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812.
• 1918 - President Woodrow Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after World War I.
• 1959 - Charles De Gaulle is inaugurated as president of France's Fifth Republic.
• 1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty." 
• 2011 - U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., is shot when a gunman opens fire at a constituent event in Tucson, killing six people and injuring 12 others.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1638 - Italian painter Elisabetta Sirani
• 1859 - Mountaineer Fanny Bullock Workman
• 1867 - Economist and pacifist Emily Greene Balch
• 1935 - Singer and actor Elvis Presley
• 1941 - English actor Graham Chapman
• 1942 - English physicist Stephen Hawking
• 1947 - English singer-songwriter David Bowie

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Elvis Presley - Hound Dog - LISTEN
• David Bowie - Space Oddity - LISTEN

THEME:  Earth's Rotation

• PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet GO! - How the Planets Rotate (4:22) - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - PEEP and the Big Wide World - Shifting Shadows (1:27) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Sunrise and Sunset: Summer and Winter (2:53) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Nature Cat - Here Comes the Sun (11:50) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Earth in Orbit  (3:11)- VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Observing Shadows on Earth - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - The Coriolis Effect Due to Earth's Rotation (Available in Spanish) (4:18) - VIEW, READ, DO

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339