Marie Curie - November 7

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Friday, November 7, 2025

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AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE

1775 – John Murray (also known as Lord Dunmore), the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: MARIE CURIE

ON THIS DATE

1874 - A Thomas Nast cartoon in Harper's Weekly first uses the elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party.
1911 - Marie Curie is awarded a Nobel Prize in chemistry. It is her second Nobel Prize. Eight years earlier, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
1913 - The first day of the massive blizzard known as the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, which killed 250 individuals.
1916 - Montana republican Jeannette Rankin becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
1916 - Woodrow Wilson (D) defeats former Governor of New York Charles Evans Hughes (R) and is reelected as President.
1916 - 46 people are killed when the Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge and plunges into the Fort Point Channel.
1917 - Russian Bolshevik forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrow the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
1944 - FDR defeats Thomas E. Dewey and is elected to a record fourth term as President.
1954 - Armistice Day becomes Veterans Day.
1967 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, creating the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
1972 - President Richard Nixon (R) defeats George McGovern (D) and is re-elected President.
1989 - Douglas Wilder of Virginia becomes the first elected African American governor in the U.S.
1991 - Basketball player Magic Johnson announces that he is HIV-positive.
2006 - Minnesota democrat Keith Ellison becomes the first Muslim elected to Congress.

BIRTHDAYS

1728 - English captain and navigator James Cook
1867 - French chemist and physicist Marie Curie
1878 - Austrian physicist Lise Meitner
1879 - Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky
1913 - French novelist and philosopher Albert Camus
1918 - Minister Billy Graham
1943 - Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell

SONGS OF THE DAY

Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi and Both Sides Now - LISTEN

THEME: MARIE CURIE

Grades K-4 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Marie Curie's Science Dream (1:47) - VIEW
Grades: K-4 - Xavier Riddle and The Secret Museum - Marie Curie (2:15) - VIEW and READ
Grades K-4 - BBC Bitesize - Who Was Marie Curie? - Read and DO
Grades 3-8 - Spot on Science - Fearless Female Scientists (5:07) - VIEW and DO
Grades 4-12 - PBS Learning Media - The Medicine Women - A Pellet of Poison (3:57) - VIEW and DO
Grade 7-12 - PBS NewsHour - The Day Marie Curie Got Snubbed by the French Science World - READ

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