Television- November 21

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Today is World Hello Day, World Television Day, Gingerbread Cookie Day, and National Stuffing Day.

Native American Heritage Month Resource - The Hopi Origin Story

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Television
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ON THIS DATE

• 1620 - Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact.
• 1789 - North Carolina becomes the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
• 1877 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph.
• 1905 - Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik. 
• 1922 - Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator. She served for one day.
• 2000 - The Florida Supreme Court grants Democrat Al Gore's request to keep the presidential election recount going.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1694 - French writer Francois Voltaire
• 1727 - NH Physician and politician Josiah Bartlett
• 1835 - Financier Hetty Green
• 1898 - Belgian painter Rene Magritte
• 1904 - Jazz saxophonist Coleman Hawkins 
• 1908 - Children's author Elizabeth George Speare
• 1944 - Actor and director Harold Ramis
• 1945 - Actor Goldie Hawn
• 1965 - Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Coleman Hawkins - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - LISTEN
• Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet - LISTEN
• Bruce Springsteen - 57 Channels (and Nothing On) - LISTEN
• Bob Dylan - TV Talkin' Song - LISTEN
• Lou Reed - Satellite of Love - LISTEN
• Wilco - Kicking Television - LISTEN
• Television - Marquee Moon - LISTEN
• Adele - Hello - LISTEN
• Beatles - Hello, Goodbye - LISTEN
• John Prine - Hello in There - LISTEN

THEME:  TELEVISION

• Grades PreK-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Arthur - TV Star - DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia -Bringing a Theatrical Work to Television (13:58) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Television  (6:16) - VIEW
  
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources - Television! Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - 1964: "Television Reflects Social Change" (2:29) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Pioneers of Television Series - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - I Remember Television Series -VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia -Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You - Race and Representation on Television: Norman Lear’s Good Times and The Jeffersons (1:10) - VIEW and DO

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GROUNDBREAKERS
Tuesday, 11/21 from 8-10 pm NHPBS
Sports icons from different generations interview one another, sharing personal powerful stories of the perseverance, pain, and progress they've experienced in their remarkable careers. Athletes include Naomi Osaka and Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Chloe Kim and Nancy Lieberman, Suni Lee and Julie Foudy, and Diana Flores and Billie Jean King. GROUNDBREAKERS Streaming Video

FRONTLINE - 20 Days in Mariupol
Tuesday, 11/21 from 10-11:30 pm NHPBS
An AP team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting atrocities of the Russian invasion. As the only international reporters who remain in the city, they capture what later become defining images of the war: dying children, mass graves, and the bombing of a maternity hospital. FRONTLINE Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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