STEM - November 8
FULL STEM AHEAD LEARING
Saturday, November 8, 2025
Today is Tongue Twisters Day, STEM/STEAM Day, X-ray Day, Abet and Aid Punsters Day, Cappuccino Day, Harvey Wallbanger Day, and Town Planning Day.
Native American Heritage Month Resource of the Day - Navajo Shaker Dance
Drum Month Resource of the Day - Pitch: Super Sounding Drums
On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: STEM
- 1882 - Former President Grover Cleveland (D) defeats incumbent Benjamin Harrison (R) to become both the 22nd and the 24th President of the US.
- 1889 - Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
- 1895 - Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
- 1932 - Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) defeats incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R).
- 1960 - John F. Kennedy (D) defeats Richard Nixon (R) and is elected as the 35th President.
- 1966 - Edward Brooke of Massachusetts becomes the first African American elected to the US Senate since Reconstruction.
- 1972 - HBO debuts with the movie Sometimes a Great Notion.
- 1988 - George H. W. Bush (R) defeats Michael Dukakis (D) and is elected as the 41st president.
- 1997 - China's Yangtze River is diverted to make way for the Three Gorges Dam.
- 2000 - A vote recount begins in Florida after a winner cannot be declared in the Presidential election between George W. Bush (R) and Al Gore (D).
- 2016 - Donald J. Trump (R) defeats Hillary Clinton (D) and is elected as the 45th president.
- 1656 - English astronomer Edmond Halley
- 1836 - Businessman Milton Bradley
- 1847 - Irish novelist Bram Stoker
- 1878 - English paleontologist Dorothea Bate
- 1884 - Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach
- 1900 - Author Margaret Mitchell
- 1908 - Journalist and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn
- 1949 - Singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt
- 1952 - Actor Alfre Woodard
- Grades PreK-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Curious George STEM - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - STEM ALIVE - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 -VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Occupation STEM - VIEW and DO
- Grades 1-3 - PBS LearningMedia - STEM Careers - VIEW
- Grades 4-8 - NHPBS Video - SciGirls Series (Available in Spanish) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - STEM Career Labs (Available in Spanish) - VIEW and DO
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