Telephones - January 7

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Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Today is National Bobblehead Day and National Tempura Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Telephones

ON THIS DATE

1610 - Galileo first observes the four largest moons of Jupiter, Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa.
1927 - The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London
1955 - Singer Marian Anderson made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
1959 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro
1979 - Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government.
1999 - The Senate impeachment trial of Bill Clinton begins.
2015 - Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris

BIRTHDAYS

1800 - 13th president Millard Fillmore
1830 - Painter Albert Bierstadt
1891 - Author Zora Neale Hurston
1899 - French composer Francis Poulenc
1912 - Cartoonist Charles Addams
1948 - Singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins
1957 - Journalist Katie Couric

SONGS OF THE DAY

Francis Poulenc - Melancolie, FP 105 - LISTEN
Blondie - Call Me - LISTEN
Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe - LISTEN
Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Lines - LISTEN
Twisted Sister - We're Not Going to Take It - LISTEN

THEME: Telephones

Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street -The Martians Discover a Telephone (2:52) - VIEW
Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Counting Telephone Rings with Ernie (2:02) - VIEW
Grades 1-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Alexander Graham Bell (2:13) - VIEW and READ
Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Alexander Graham Bell - Scientist, Inventor, and Teacher (Available in Spanish) (3:51) - VIEW
Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Edison: From the Telephone and Telegraph Comes the Phonograph (3:52) - VIEW and DO
Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Telephone Museum (9:35) - VIEW

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