🎨 Sesame Street first airs (1969)
Children learn letters and numbers by singing along with puppets, and the show has reached more than 150 countries.
Where: New York, USA
Nearby on the globe: 30 Rockefeller Plaza → 🌍 Open the 3D globe
📅 On This Day: November 10
November 10, 1969: Sesame Street first airs. On this day in 1969, the children's TV show Sesame Street first aired in the USA. Big Bird, the tall yellow bird, and Oscar, who lives in a trash can, were there from the very first episode.
✨ More events on this day
- 1759 🎨 German poet Friedrich Schiller was born. His poem 'Ode to Joy' became the words of the famous final part of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
- 1810 💡 George Jennings was born in England. He was a plumber and engineer who built public flushing toilets and showed them off at London's Great Exhibition in 1851.
- 1970 🚀 The Soviet Union launched Luna 17. A week later it landed on the Moon and drove out Lunokhod 1, the first robot rover on another world.
🧠 Question of the day
Where does Oscar live on Sesame Street?
- In a spaceship
- In a trash can
- In a treehouse
Show the answer
Answer: In a trash can
Questions
What happened on November 10?
November 10, 1969: Sesame Street first airs. It happened in New York, USA.
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