Jesse Owens

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Sunday, September 12, 2021

Today is Grandparent's Day, Day of Encouragement, Hug Your Hound Day, Police Woman's Day, Video Games Day, and National Chocolate Milkshake Day.

September is National Square Dancing Month, National Food Safety Education Month, Classical Music Month, Library Card Sign-up Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Save A Tiger Month, College Savings Month, and Be Kind To Editors & Writers Month.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Jesse Owens
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ON THIS DATE

• 1609 - English explorer Henry Hudson sails into the bay that now bears his name.
• 1940 - Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
• 1940 - 51 people are killed and over 200 injured in the Hercules Powder Plant Disaster in Roxbury, New Jersey.
• 1944 - U.S. troops enter Germany for the first time in WWII nearTrier.
• 1977 - South African black student activist Steven Biko dies in police custody.
• 2000 - Dutch lawmakers grant same-sex couples the right to marry.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1880 - Journalist H. L. Mencken
• 1897 - Chemist and physicist Irène Joliot-Curie
• 1913 - Athlete Jesse Owens
• 1944 - Singer-songwriter Barry White
• 1946 - Singer-songwriter and guitarist Tony Bellamy
• 1952 - Drummer Neil Peart
• 1957 - Compoer Hans Zimmer
• 1981 - Singer and actor Jennifer Hudson
• 1994 - Rapper and songwriter RM

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Barry White - My First, My Last, My Everything - LISTEN
• Redbone - Come and Get Your Love - LISTEN
• Rush - Tom Sawyer - LISTEN
• Han Zimmer - Inception "Time" - LISTEN
• Jennifer Husdson - Respect - LISTEN
• BTS - Permission to Dance - LISTEN

THEME: JESSE OWENS

• Grades PreK-3 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Jesse Owens Races Home (1:45) -VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Know Ohio - Jesse Owens (1:53) - VIEW 
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Jesse Owens (52:02) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Gloria Hemphill Speaks about Her Father, Jesse Owens (3:36) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - Ohio State University - Jesse Owens - READ
• Grades 7-12 - Philadelphia Holocuast Remembrance Foundation - 1936 Berlin Olympics - Protest Through Participation and Boycott Lesson Plan - DO
• Grades 9-12- NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Jesse Owens in Hitler's Germany (2:07) - VIEW 
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Jesse Owens: A Hero's Welcome? (1:35) - VIEW 
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Track as a Great Equalizer (2:20) - VIEW 
  
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Teacher Resources - DO

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NHPBS  - 11.1   Comcast (802)   Live Stream   More Options

• 7-7:30 am NHPBS - Let's Go Luna! - Volcano Boy/Sea Monster
• 7:30-8:30 am NHPBS - Arthur's First Day
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Nature Cat - Nature Cat's Nature Stories/Pattern Problema
• 9-9:30 am NHPBS - SciGirls - Terrific Pacific
• 9:30-10 am - Cyberchase - Soil Turmoil
• 10-10:30 am NHPBS - Odd Squad - The Cherry-On-Top-Inator/Sir
• 10:30-11 am NHPBS - Granite State Challenge - Quarter Final - Londonderry vs Portsmouth
• 2-3 pm NHPBS - Nova - Extreme Animal Weapons
• 3-4 pm NHPBS - Future of Work
• 4-5 pm NHPBS - Roadtrip Nation: Do It Differently
• 6:01-7:01 NHPBS - Eyes on the Prize - Ain't Scared Of Your Jails 1960-1961
• 7:01-8 pm NHPBS - Eyes on the Prize - No Easy Walk 1961-1963

NHPBS EXPLORE  - 11.2   Comcast (801)   More Options

• 6-7 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Nova - Extreme Animal Weapons
• 8-8:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Rosanne Cash at Macdowell
• 8:30-9:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Saving Songbirds
• 9:30-10:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Art in the Twenty-First Century - Borderlands

NH WORLD - 11.3   Comcast (965)  More Options

• 9-10  am NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Care
• 10-11 am NH WORLD - Alzheimer's: The Caregiver's Perspective
• 5-6 pm NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Care
• 6-7 pm NH WORLD - Open A Book, Open The World: The 2021 Library of Congress National Book Festival
• 7-7:30 pm NH WORLD - Variety Studio: Actors On Actors - Nicole Kidman,  Chris Rock,  Josh O'Connor,  Anya Taylor-Joy
• 7:30-8 pm NH WORLD - Variety Studio: Actors On Actors - Ewan McGregor, Pedro Pascal, Kathryn Hahn , and Jason Sudeikis 
• 8-8:30 pm NH WORLD - American Stories: Race Amity and the Other Tradition - The Preacher And The Rabbi: Rev. Martin Luther King And Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
• 8:30-9 pm NH WORLD - American Stories: Race Amity and the Other Tradition - The General And The Quaker: Harriet Tubman And Thomas Garrett
  
• 9-9:30  pm NH WORLD - American Stories: Race Amity and the Other Tradition - The Low Country Teacher And The Liberal Hillbilly: Septima Clark And Myles Horton
• 9:30-10 pm NH WORLD - American Stories: Race Amity and the Other Tradition - Godmothers Of Race Amity: Mary McLeod Bethune And Eleanor Roosevelt
• 10-10:30 pm NH WORLD - American Stories: Race Amity and the Other Tradition - Amity And Brotherhood For Education: Booker T. Washington And Julius Rosenwald
• 10:30-11 pm NH WORLD - One Night In March
• 11 pm-12 am NH WORLD - Dream In Doubt

NH KIDS - 11.5  Schedule   Live Stream   More Options

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