Superman and the Berlin Wall - June 12
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Thursday, June 12, 2025
Today is Peanut Butter Cookie Day, Falafel Day, Loving Day, Ghost in the Machine Day, Little League Girls Baseball Day, Superman Day, and World Day Against Child Labor.
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Ocean/River Month Resource of the Day
ON THIS DATE
- 1775 - British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts.
- 1817 - Karl von Drais rides his invention, the Laufmaschine or dandy horse, an early form of the bicycle.1939
- 1939 - The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
- 1963 - NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
- 1964 - Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa.
- 1967 - The Supreme Court rules in Loving v. Virginia that state laws prohibiting interracial marriage are unconstitutional.
- 1987 - In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, President Ronald Reagan demanded that Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev ''tear down this wall.''
- 2016 - 49 people are killed in a shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
- 2018 - President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea hold the first meeting between leaders of their two countries.
- 1824 - Swiss author of Heidi, Johanna Spyri
- 1924 - 41st President George H. W. Bush
- 1924 - German-Dutch diarist Anne Frank
- 1933 - Photojournalist Eddie Adams
- Five for Fighting - Superman (It's Not Easy) - LISTEN
- The Kinks - (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman - LISTEN
OCEAN/RIVER RESOURCE OF THE DAY
NOAA - Exploring the Ocean with Robots - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Superman's Favorite Letter - S (1:13) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo the Superhero Musical (7:17) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - Hero Elementary - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-6 - ReadWriteThink - Is Superman Really All That Super? Critically Exploring Superheroes - READ and DO
- Grades - Adults - PBS Parents -The Superhero Solution: How Make-Believe Boosts Kids’ Perseverance - READ
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - After 75 Years, an Untarnished Reputation for Superman (6:46) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Up, Up and Away (10:23) - VIEW
THEME: BERLIN WALL
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Teaching with Primary Sources - Fall of the Berlin Wall Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grade 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Statecraft: The Bush 41 Team - Fall of the Berlin Wall (5:26) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - 30 Years After the Berlin Wall (9:28) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment - The Berlin Wall and Beyond: An Online High School Curriculum - READ and DO
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