Space Shuttle Challenger and Christa McAuliffe - January 28
Learning About Our History
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Today is Christa McAuliffe Day, National Daisy Day, National Kazoo Day, Pop Art Day, and National Blueberry Pancake Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: The Space Shuttle Challenger
ON THIS DATE
- 1813 - Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published.
- 1915 - An act of Congress creates the Coast Guard.
- 1916 - Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jewish member of the Supreme Court.
- 1922- 100 people die in the Knickerbocker Hotel in Washington, DC after the roof collapses following a heavy snowstorm.
- 1986 - The Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board, including Concord, NH high school social studies teacher Christa McAullife.
- 1873 - French writer Colette
- 1884 - Swiss inventor, balloonist, deep-sea diver, and physicist Auguste Piccard, half of Gene Roddenberry's inspiration for the name of Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
- 1900 - Artist Alice Neel
- 1912 - Painter Jackson Pollock
- 1927 - Children's author and illustrator Vera Williams
- 1936 - Actor Alan Alda
- 1947 - NH Senator Jeanne Shaheen
- 1972 - Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett
- 1981 - Actor Elijah Wood
Minka - Jackson Pollock - LISTEN
THEME: The Space Shuttle Challenger
- Grades 4-12 - NASA - Challenger STS 51-L Accident January 28, 1986 - READ and VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - NASA - Space Shuttle Challenger Accident - READ and VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - ReadWriteThink - The Challenger Explosion Activities - DO
- Grades K-8 - The Challenger Center - Christa's Lost Lessons - READ, VIEW, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - NH Outlook - Christa's Living Legacy (26:25) - VIEW
- Grade 6-12 - Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Lesson Plan - READ and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Christa McAuliffe's Teacher in Space Interview (5:18) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - NH in Space (26:45) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Christa (27:51) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Channel 3 Moscow - Space Shuttle Challenger (6:12) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Barbara Morgan: No Limits (48:52) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Retro Report - Lessons From the Space Shuttle Challenger Tragedy (18:31) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Remembering Challenger, Disaster That Shook Up Space Flight (6:25) - VIEW
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