Glaciers - May 11
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Monday, May 11, 2026
Today is Eat What You Want Day, Hostess Cupcake Day, Ego Awareness Day, and Twilight Zone 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: Glaciers
ON THIS DATE
- 1858 - Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd state
- 1894 - Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on strike.
- 1910 - Glacier National Park in Montana is established
- 1960 - Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann is captured in Argentina.
- 1997 - The Deep Blue IBM computer defeats Garry Kasparov and wins a six-game chess match.
- 1874 - Pilot Harriet Quimby
- 1888 - Composer Irving Berlin
- 1894 - Choreographer Martha Graham
- 1904 - Spanish artist Salvador Dalí
- 1905 - Architect and public housing advocate Catherine Bauer Wurster
POEM OF THE DAY
Peggy Shumaker - Exit Glacier
ASIAN AMERICAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
F is for Fred Korematsu | ABC's of AAPIs
- Grades PreK-2 - Let's Go Luna - Glacier or Bust (3:15) - VIEW
- Grades 3-8 - NHPBS Video - Dragonfly TV - Glaciers (7:38) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - What’s Causing Greenland’s Biggest Glacier to Melt? (2:04) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - How Do Glaciers Move? (6:30) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Alaska - Glaciers - READ and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Fastest Glacier (5:15) - VIEW and READ
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Frontline - Observing Melting Glaciers In Greenland (5:30) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Frontline - High Altitude Glaciers in the Tropics (4:40) - VIEW, READ, DO
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