Tsunamis - November 5
Waves of Learning
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Today is Tsunami Awareness Day, Football Day, Donut Day, Play Monopoly Day, and Guy Fawkes Day.
Native American Heritage Resource of the Day - The Dreamcatcher: Native American Culture
Drum Resource of the Day - Ancestors Talk Through Drums
On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: TSUNAMIS
- 1862 - Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac
- 1872 - Susan B. Anthony tries to vote in the presidential election and is later fined $100.
- 1912 - Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
- 1940 - Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Wendell Willkie and becomes the first and only President to be elected to a third term.
- 1968 - Richard Nixon defeats Hubert Humphrey and is elected as the 37th President of the United States.
- 1974 - Ella Grasso of Connecticut became the first woman elected governor in the United States without succeeding her husband.
- 1996 - Bill Clinton defeats Bob Dole and is re-elected President of the United States.
- 1607 - Dutch painter Anna Maria van Schurman
- 1855 - Union leader and politician Eugene V. Debs
- 1857 - Journalist and reformer Ida Tarbell
- 1913 - British actor Vivien Leigh
- 1941 - Singer Art Garfunkel
- 1943 - Playwright and actor Sam Shepard
- 1952 - Basketball player Bill Walton
- 1960 - English actor Tilda Swinton
- 1973 - Baseball player Johnny Damon
- Grades 4-12 - NASA Space Place - What is a Tsunami? - READ and VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - NOAA - What is a Tsunami? - READ and VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - NOAA - U.S. Tsunami Warning System - READ and CHECK
- Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia -Tsunami Propagation (Available in Spanish) (1:45) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Birth of a Tsunami (2:48) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Alaska Tsunami (3:16) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Scary Tsunamis (Available in Spanish) (9:16) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Can Animals Predict Disaster? (Available in Spanish) (1:19) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - EarthSky - Tsunami Forecasting System (7:48) - LISTEN
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