The history of Sesame Street began with its conception in 1966 during
discussions between television producer Joan Ganz Cooney and Carnegie
Corporation vice president Lloyd Morrisett. Their goal was to create a
children's television show that would "master the addictive qualities of
television and do something good with them", such as helping young
children prepare for school. After two years of research, the newly
formed Children's Television Workshop (CTW) received a combined grant of
$8 million from the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, and the
U.S. federal government to create and produce a new children's
television show. Sesame Street premiered on November 10, 1969. Featuring
animation, live shorts, humor, celebrity appearances, and Jim Henson's
Muppets such as Big Bird (star pictured), it was the first television
program of its kind to base its contents and production values on
laboratory and formative research, and the first to include a curriculum
"detailed or stated in terms of measurable outcomes". Initial responses
to the show included adulatory reviews, some controversy, and high
ratings. By its 40th anniversary in 2009, Sesame Street was broadcast in
over 120 countries, and 20 independent international versions had been
produced.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sesame_Street>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1775:
The United States Marine Corps was founded as the Continental
Marines by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress during the
American Revolutionary War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps>
1945:
Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of the
British officer Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby a few weeks prior, British
forces began their retaliation by attacking Surabaya, Indonesia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Surabaya>
1958:
Merchant Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond, the "most
famous diamond in the world", to the Smithsonian Institution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Diamond>
1975:
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald (pictured), the largest boat on North
America's Great Lakes, sank in Lake Superior with the loss of 29 lives.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald>
2006:
Prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer
Nadarajah Raviraj was assassinated in Colombo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadarajah_Raviraj>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ooze:
1. To secrete or slowly leak.
2. (figuratively) To give off a sense of (something).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ooze>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There's no such thing as chance; And what to us seems merest accident
Springs from the deepest source of destiny.
--Friedrich Schiller
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller>