Nurses - May 6
Caring Learning
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Today is National Beverage Day, National Crepes Suzette Day, National Nurses Day, National School Nurse Day, National Tourist Appreciation Day, and No Homework Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Nurses
ON THIS DATE
- 1861 - Arkansas secedes from the Union.
- 1863 - The Army of the Potomac is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia. at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
- 1877 - Chief Crazy Horse or Tasunke Witco of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
- 1882 - Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
- 1915 - Boston Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth hits his first major league home run.
- 1935 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 7034, creating the Works Progress Administration.
- 1937 - The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36.
- 1940 - John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
- 1941 - Bob Hope performs his first USO show at California's March Field.
- 1954 - British runner Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run a mile in under four minutes.
- 1960 - 20 million viewers tuned in for the wedding of Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones, the first televised royal wedding.
- 1998 - Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. unveils the first iMac.
- 2004 - The finale of "Friends" airs on NBC.
- 1758 - French politician Maximilien Robespierre
- 1856 - Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud
- 1856 - Admiral and explorer Robert Peary
- 1895 - Italian actor Rudolph Valentino
- 1915 - Actor, producer, director, and screenwriter Orson Welles
- 1931 - Baseball player Willie Mays
- 1937 - Boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
- 1945 - Singer-songwriter Bob Seger
- 1955 - First host of NHPBS Granite State Challenge, Tom Bergeron
- 1961 - Actor George Clooney
POEM OF THE DAY
Tess Taylor -May
ASIAN AMERICAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
Through Our Eyes - Reclaim
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - People in Your Neighborhood - Nurses and Pilots (2:23) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Mister Rogers - Nurse Miller’s Check Up (1968) (28:55) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - How Did Florence Nightingale Help People? (1:30) - VIEW
- Grades 2-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - A-Z Careers - Nurse Practitioner (4:58) - VIEW and READ
- Grades 6-7 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Real-Life Math - Nurse (4:35) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics Girl - Candid Interview with COVID-19 ER Nurse and Epidemiologist (20:41) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Essential Voices - Shelley Sherman: Clinical Nurse Specialist (4:33) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Careers in Demand - Doctors and Nurses (3:05) - VIEW
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