The Gold Rush - January 24

Friday, January 24, 2024

Today is National Peanut Butter Day, National Compliment Day, and Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day. 

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: The Gold Rush

ON THIS DATE

• 1848 - James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.
• 1908 - The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
• 1933 - The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, changing the beginning and end of terms for all elected federal offices.
• 1961 - A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. 

BIRTHDAYS

• 1862 - Author Edith Wharton
• 1910 - Laconia, NH native and activist Doris "Granny D" Haddock
• 1945 - Singer-songwriter Neil Diamond

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Neil Young  - After the Gold Rush - LISTEN
• Dan Fogelberg - Sutter's Mill - LISTEN
• Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline - LISTEN

THEME:  Gold Rush

• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Traveling the Bozeman Trail - A Rush to Montana's Gold (10:34) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - ReadWriteThink - Gold Rush Activity - DO
• Grades 4-10 - PBS LearningMedia -  Cherokee Nation - How the Gold Rush Pushed Native Americans Out West (1:27) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - History Detectives - Baker's Gold (16:44) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The West- The Gold Rush Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The West - Gold Rush: The Digging (13:38)s - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The Klondike Gold Rush Clips - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - American Experience - The Gold Rush - READ

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
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