Mahatma Gandhi - March 12
Peaceful Learning
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Today is Girl Scouts Day, Alfred Hitchcock Day, and Plant a Flower Day.
Women's History Month Resource of the Day: Kasturba Gandhi: Accidental Activist
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Mahatma Gandhi
ON THIS DATE
- 1930 - Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March.
- 1987 - "Les Miserables" opens on Broadway.
- 1993 - Janet Reno becomes the first female Attorney General of the U.S.
- 2020 - The U.S. suspends travel from Europe due to COVID-19.
- 1806 - First Lady and Hampton, New Hampshire native Jane Pierce
- 1889 - Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky
- 1918 - Painter Elaine de Kooning
- 1922 - Beat poet Jack Kerouac
- 1928 - Playwright Edward Albee
- 1936 -Children's author Virginia Hamilton
- 1940 - Singer Al Jarreau
- 1946 - Actor and singer Liza Minnelli
- 1947 - Politician Mitt Romney
- 1968 - Politician Tammy Duckworth
Plastic Ono Band - Give Peace a Chance - LISTEN
Al Jarreau - Mornin' - LISTEN
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots - Kal Penn: Gandhi's Salt March (4:02) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearingMedia - American Experience - Freedom Riders: The Inspiration (3:21) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - EDSITEment - Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, and the Power of Nonviolence Lesson Plan - DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - Is Gandhi Relevant Today? (47:54) - VIEW
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