November 24th is... Softball Birthday (1887), Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day,
On the Origin of SpeciesPublished/Evolution Day/All Our Uncles are Monkeys Day, D.B. Cooper Day (1971), Comedy Hall of Fame Birthday (1993), What Do You Love About America Day, Death Comes to Sesame Street (1983), Brownielocks Day/Big Hair Day, National Use Even If Seal Is Broken Day, National Sardines Day, St. Mesrob's Day, International Carmenere Day, World Day of Giving
MORE (4th Saturday): International Aura Awareness Day, Small Business Saturday
PLUS - interesting books to read and free printables, paper crafts, kid crafts, activities, and coloring pages.
Softball Birthday (1887)-- Softball originated in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day. A group of about twenty young men had gathered in the gymnasium of the Farragut Boat Club in order to hear the outcome of the Harvard-Yale football game. After Yale's victory was announced (18-7) and bets were paid off, a man picked up a stray boxing glove and threw it at someone, who hit it with a pole. George Hancock, usually considered the inventor of softball, shouted,
Let's play ball!Source
Read: Coach's Guide to Game-Winning Softball Drills
-- Two-time Olympic gold medalist and Hall of Fame pitcher Michele Smith throws one right down the middle with this big collection of more than 250 skill-building drills developed especially for coaches of fast-pitch recreation league, travel ball, and high school softball players, ages eight to eighteen. Straight from the Michele Smith Gold Camps and Clinics, these drills are designed to give you all the tools you need to teach the entire range of offensive and defensive softball skills.
• Wilson Series Softball -- Wilson Baseballs and Softballs are the preferred choice of more than 40 collegiate conferences• Softball Mom Trucker Cap -- Look stylish with this Katydid Softball Mom Gameday Sports Women's Trucker Hat – Premium Embroidery, Distressed Style, Adjustable Velcro Tab, Curved Bill, Designed and Embroidered in the USA.
• Softball Coloring Books
Amazon Freebies:
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• Free Softball apps and games
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Free Printables, Coloring Pages, Activities and Crafts:
• Respect My Game Card Program | Free Resources
• Free Download Softball Score Sheet
• Printable Softball-related Games"
• Softball Printables
• FREE Fastpitch Softball Instructional Articles and Drills
• Fast Pitch College / High School Softball Field Dimensions
• Softball Activities, Worksheets, Printables, and Lesson Plans
• DIY Softball Equipment Hacks
• Softball Coloring Pages
Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day
- We all have at least one extraordinary - and many times weird - ability. Now is the time to get out there and indulge in yours.
D.B. Cooper Day (1971)
- Late in the afternoon of November 24, 1971, an inconspicuous middle-aged man wearing a plain suit and dark glasses boarded Flight 305, home-based in Minnesota. D.B. Cooper gained sudden notoriety as the perpetrator of the FBI's only major unsolved
skyjacking.He became the first and only
successfulparachuting skyjacker in American history, successful because he disappeared with $200,000 in ransom money.
Comedy Hall of Fame Birthday (1993)
- On Nov.24, 1993, there was the first annual
Comedy Hall of Fameinduction ceremony, as taped from NBC. Inducted were George Burns, Carol Burnett, Walter Matthau, Milton Berle, Red Skelton, and Jonathan Winters. Quite a line-up!!
What Do You Love About America Day
- Suppose the president came to your town and asked you to tell him what you love about America. What would you say?
Death Comes to Sesame Street (1983)
- In 1983, when the actor who played the kindly storekeeper Mr. Hooper on
Sesame Street(Will Lee) died at age 74
On the Origin of SpeciesPublished
- Charles Darwin's monumental work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, was published on November 24, 1859, by London publisher John Murray. The print run of 1,250 (priced at 15 shillings) sold out the same day.
