Our Town - January 22
Grover's Corner Learning
Monday, January 22, 2024
Today is National Southern Food Day, National Hot Sauce Day, and Answer Your Cat's Questions Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Our Town
ON THIS DATE
- 1905 - Russian troops opened fire on marching workers in St. Petersburg, killing more than 100 in what became known as "Bloody Sunday."
- 1938 - Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town" premieres in Princeton, N.J.
- 1953 - Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible" opens on Broadway.
- 1973 - The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
- 1984 - The Apple Macintosh computer is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII commercial.
- 1997 - The Senate confirms Madeleine Albright as the first female secretary of state.
BIRTHDAYS
- 1552 - English explorer and courtier Walter Raleigh
- 1561 - English philosopher and politician Francis Bacon
- 1573 - English poet John Donne
- 1788 - English poet Lord Byron
- 1875 - Director and producer D. W. Griffith
- 1904 - Dancer and choreographer George Balanchine
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece- Our Town 1: The Way We Were (2:06) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece- Our Town 2: Love and Marriage (1:50) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece- Our Town 3: A Good Rest (1:15) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Our Hometown - Peterborough: The MacDowell Colony & Thornton Wilder (3:21) - VIEW
- Grades 6-8- EDSITEment - Thornton Wilder's Our Town: The Reader as Writer - READ and DO
- Grades 7-12 - National Endowment for the Arts - Big Read - Our Town - READ and DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - Thornton Wilder: A Life (56:17) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment - Dramatic and Theatrical Aspects in Thornton Wilder's Our Town - Lesson Plan - READ and DO
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