The Cuban Missile Crisis and Indigenous Culture - October 14
Crisis Learning
Saturday, October 14, 2024
Today is Columbus Day, Indigenous People's Day, National Dessert Day, national lower case day, Chocolate-Covered Insects Day, and Spider-Man 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
On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cripple Creek - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - Molly of Denali Series - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Native American Heritage Collection - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Our New Hampshire - People of the Dawn(18:19) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Native America - Hopi Origin Story (4:21) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Reconnecting Roots - Native Americans: An Uncommon History (27:02) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - KVIE Arts Showcase - Native American Art (27:48) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - If Cities Could Dance - Albuquerque's Native American Hip-Hop Dance (6:08) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - If Cities Could Dance - Native American Hoop Dancing and Hip-Hop in Minneapolis (4:17) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Warrior Tradition (54:41) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Sound Field - What Does Electric Pow Wow Sound Like? (14:01) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video -DIGADOHI: Lands, Cherokee, and the Trail of Tears (56:45) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Made Here - Nebi, Abenaki Ways of Knowing Water (12:31) - VIEW
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