STEM - November 8

Friday, November 8, 2024

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
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ON THIS DATE

• 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.

BIRTHDAYS

• 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

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Pajama Game - Steam Heat - LISTEN
• Bonnie Raitt - Angel From Montgomery - LISTEN

THEME: STEM

• 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 LearingMedia - STEM Career Labs (Available in Spanish) - VIEW and DO

Pressroom Contact

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