Tsunamis - November 5
Waves of Learning
Sunday, November 5, 2023
Today is Daylight Savings Time Ends (2 a.m.), Tsunami Awareness Day, Chinese Take-out Day, Guy Fawkes Day, and the NYC Marathon.
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
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- 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 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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BASEBALL - The National Pastime
Saturday, 11/05 from 2:30-5 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
The sixth "inning" leads off with the baseball season of 1941, one of the most exciting of all time. Joe DiMaggio hits in 56 straight games, the longest hitting streak in history. Ted Williams becomes the last man to hit .400. The Brooklyn Dodgers win their first pennant in 20 years. Then the war intervenes and baseball's best players become soldiers. BASEBALL - Streaming Video
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