Marie Curie - November 7

Thursday, November 7, 2024

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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 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

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