Nurses - May 6
Caring Learning
Friday, May 6, 2022
Today is International Space Day, No Homework Day, National Nurses Day, Tuba Day, and National Crepe Suzette Day.
May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Nurses
ON THIS DATE
- 1861 - Arkansas secedes from the Union.
- 1863 - The the Army of the Potomac is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia. at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
- 1877 - Chief Crazy Horse or Tasunke Witco of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
- 1882 - Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
- 1915 - Boston Red Sox pitcher, Babe Ruth, hits his first major league home run.
- 1935 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 creating the Works Progress Administration.
- 1937 - The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36.
- 1940 - John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
- 1941 - Bob Hope performs his first USO show at At California's March Field.
- 1954 - British runner Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
- 1960 - 20 million viewers tune in for the wedding of Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones, the first televised royal wedding.
- 1998 - Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. unveils the first iMac.
- 2004 - The finale of "Friends" airs on NBC.
- 1758 - French politician Maximilien Robespierre
- 1856 - Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud
- 1856 - Admiral and explorer Robert Peary
- 1895 - Italian actor Rudolph Valentino
- 1915 - Actor, producer, director and screenwriter Orson Welles
- 1931 - Baseball player Willie Mays
- 1937 - Boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
- 1945 - Singer-songwriter Bob Seger
- 1955 - First host of NHPBS Granite State Challenge Tom Bergeron
- 1961 - Actor George Clooney
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - People in Your Neighborhood - Nurses and Pilots (2:23) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Mister Rogers - Nurse Miller’s Check Up (1968) (28:55) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - How Did Florence Nightingale Help People? (1:30) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-4 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Arthur - Expert Q&A: Asthma Nurse Linda (5:28) - VIEW
- Grades 2-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - A-Z Careers - Nurse Practitioner (4:58) - VIEW and READ
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -Experiences of a Female Nurse during World War II (3:01) - VIEW and READ
- Grades 6-7 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Real-Life Math - Nurse (4:35) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics Girl - Candid Interview with COVID-19 ER Nurse and Epidemiologist (20:41) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Essential Voices - Shelley Sherman: Clinical Nurse Specialist (4:33) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Careers in Demand - Doctors and Nurses (3:05) - VIEW
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