Bread - November 17
Learning You Knead
Monday, November 17, 2025
Today is Homemade Bread Day, Baklava Day, Hiking Day, Black Cat Day, and Little Mermaid Day.
Native American Heritage Month Resource - PBS Food - Native American Fry Bread
Drum Resource of the Day - Beat Making Lab - Get Your Drums Right
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1777 – The Articles of Confederation are submitted to the states for ratification.
On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Bread
- 1558 - Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
- 1800 - U.S. Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C.
- 1869 - The Suez Canal opens in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean and the Red Seas.
- 1947 - The Screen Actors Guild institutes an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
- 1973 - President Richard Nixon states, "I am not a crook," to a group of 400 Associated Press managing editors.
- 2019 - The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a man who had visited a market in Wuhan, China.
- 1901 - Director and method acting pioneer Lee Strasberg
- 1916 - Historian and author Shelby Foote
- 1925 - Actor Rock Hudson
- 1938 - Canadian musician Gordon Lightfoot
- 1942 - Director Martin Scorsese
- 1960 - TV host and performer RuPaul
- 1966 - Singer Jeff Buckley
- Bread - It Don't Matter to Me - LISTEN
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - LISTEN- Jeff Buckley -
Hallelujah - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - Let's Share a Story: "Fry Bread" (12:24) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood - Imagination Moment: Baking Banana Bread (2:21) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Snack Hacks - Bunny Bread (1:00) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Between the Lions - Making Bread (4:00) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Quest - Secrets of Sourdough (8:04) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Sourdough Bread is a Microbial Mystery (6:23) - VIEW
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