Marie Curie - November 7

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

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

Watch 

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (802) Live Stream More Options

MONADNOCK: THE MOUNTAIN THAT STANDS ALONE
Tuesday, 11/07 from 7-8 pm NHPBS
Photographs, music, archival footage, poetry, quotes, and stories from the people who have studied, cared for, and cared about the second most climbed mountain in the world.. MONADNOCK: THE MOUNTAIN THAT STANDS ALONE Streaming Video

NATIVE AMERICA - Women Rule
Tuesday, 11/07 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
Native women are leading, innovating, and inspiring in the arts, politics, and protecting the planet. NATIVE AMERICA explores the diverse ways they carry forward deep traditions to better their communities, their lands, and the world. NATIVE AMERICA Streaming Video

FRONTLINE - Shattered Dreams of Peace: The Road from Oslo
Tuesday, 11/07 from 10 pm - 12 am NHPBS
A seminal account of how politics and violence undid the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. A special presentation of the epic 2002 film tracing the unraveling of the peace process set in motion by the 1993 Oslo Accords. FRONTLINE Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 Comcast (965) More Options

AMERICAN VETERAN - The Mission
Tuesday, 11/07 from 4-5 pm NH WORLD
Military life shapes servicemen and women in profound, unexpected ways. AMERICAN VETERAN Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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