Handwriting - January 23
Leave Your John Hancock Learning
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Today is National Pie Day and National Handwriting Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Handwriting
ON THIS DATE
- 1556 - The Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China, killing as many as 830,000 people.
- 1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, and becomes the first female doctor in the U.S.
- 1870 - In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans in the Marias Massacre.
- 1957 - American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
- 1964 - The 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes, is ratified.
- 1973 - President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
- 1986 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley.
- 1737 - Founding father and politician John Hancock
- 1832 - French painter Édouard Manet
- 1933 - Actor and dancer Chita Rivera
Elvis Costello - Everyday I Write The Book - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Circle Time At Home Collection - VIEW and DO
- Grade K-4 - PBS Parents - How Important in Handwriting Today? - READ
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova- Scripting the Truth (1:57) - VIEW
- Grade 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - A-Z How Writing Changed the World (53:32) - VIEW
- Grade 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - A-Z How Writing Changed the World (53:32) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Why Some Schools Still Insist on Teaching Cursive Writing (6:15) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 7-12 - PBS NewsHour - Is Cursive Handwriting Slowly Dying Out in America? - READ
- Grades 7-12 - Mental Floss - 9 Handy Facts About the History of Handwriting - READ
- Grades 8-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Craft in America - Calligrapher Sammy Little (3:06) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course: Artificial Intelligence - How to Make an AI Read Your Handwriting (16:56) - VIEW
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