The Cuban Missile Crisis and Ada Lovelace - October 14

Crisis Learning

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

ON THIS DATE

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.

BIRTHDAYS

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

SONGS OF THE DAY

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

Grades 4-12 - BBC - Newsround - Who Was Ada Lovelace? - READ
Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Visionaries: Ada Lovelace (1:21) - VIEW
Grades 6-12 - Computer History Museum - Ada Lovelace - READ

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