Television- November 21
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Thursday, November 21, 2024
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
- 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.
- 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
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
- Television - Marquee Moon - LISTEN
- Adele - Hello - LISTEN
- Beatles - Hello, Goodbye - LISTEN
- John Prine - Hello in There - LISTEN
- 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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