Migrants - December 18
Learning About What Makes People Move
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Today is Answer The Telephone Like Buddy The Elf Day, Arabic Language Day, International Migrants Day, Flake Appreciation Day, Bake Cookies Day, Twin Day, and Ham Salad Day.
Winter Resource of the Day: Young Explorers -
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
- 1777 - The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.
- 1787 - New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Migrants
ON THIS DATE
- 1892 - Premiere performance of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- 1915 - President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt.
- 1958 - The U.S. launches the first communications satellite, Telstar I.
- 1707 - English hymn composer and missionary Charles Wesley
- 1860 - Pianist and composer Edward MacDowell
- 1878 - Russian Premier Joseph Stalin
- 1879 - German artist Paul Klee
- 1886 - Baseball player Ty Cobb
- 1943 - English musician Keith Richards
- 1946 - South African activist Steve Biko
- 1946 - Director Steven Spielberg
- 1963 - Actor Brad Pitt
- 1980 - Singer-songwriter Christina Aguilera
- 2001 - Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish
- Woody Guthrie - I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore - LISTEN
- The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up - LISTEN
- Christina Aguilera - Beautiful - LISTEN
- Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For? - LISTEN
- Edward MacDowell - Miroslav Skorik: To a Wild Rose - LISTEN
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Dust Bowl - The Okies Collection - VIEW and DO
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Migrant Mother: Dorothea Lange (3:23) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The Art Assignment - Whose Migrant Mother Was This? (10:59) - VIEW
- Grade 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Wide Angle - Migrant Workers (3:10) - VIEW
- Grade 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Wide Angle - Migrant Workers and Social Justice (3:10) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The African Americans - Life After Emancipation Proclamation Great Migration (4:32) - VIEW
- Grades 10-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Swamp - Impact of 1928 Hurricane on Everglades Migrant Workers (6:01) - VIEW
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