The Cuban Missile Crisis and Chess - October 14

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Today is National Dessert Day, National Pickle Day, I Love Yarn Day, African Penguin Awareness Day, National Chess Day, Family Bowling Day, Chocolate Covered Insects Day, and lowercase 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 and Chess
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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 

• Winnie the Pooh Theme Song - 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 7-12 - NHPBS Video - History Detectives - 3D Cuban Missile Crisis (7:17) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment -The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: The Missiles of October Lesson Plan - READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War (55:24) - VIEW 
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War - Potential Outcomes of a Nuclear Strike (8:18) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War - Kennedy's Speech (3:02) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War - Communications among Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy (9:59) - VIEW, READ, DO

THEME: CHESS (AND CHECKERS)

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cookie Monster Plays (Eats) Checkers - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - Arthur - Brain's Chess Club - VIEW
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Chess Wager - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Infinite Chess - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Can a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains? - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Are Robots Really Taking Over? - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Newshour - Fabiano Caruana helps usher in a new era for American chess - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - CheckMate: Growing a Community of Girls Who Play Chess - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Hip Hop Chess Club - VIEW

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NHPBS EXPLORE - 11.2 Comcast (801) More Options

ANCIENT SKIES - Finding the Center
Saturday, 10/14 from 8-9 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
Follow the efforts to give the Earth a shape and a place. From flat Earth legends to Galileo's telescope, track major changes in scientific understanding. Ideas rise and fall as we continue to explore our ancient skies. ANCIENT SKIES Streaming Video

AUSTIN CITY LIMITS - Jenny Lewis/Muno
Saturday, 10/14 from 11 pm-12 am NHPBS EXPLORE
Singer/songwriter, musician, and actress Jenny Lewis (appearing once before on ACL fronting indie band Rilo Kiley) returns to the Austin City Limits stage to perform songs from her release The Voyager. AUSTIN CITY LIMITS Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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