Frederick Law Olmsted and Chernobyl - April 26
Parks and Disasters
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Today is Audubon Day, National Pretzel Day, and Richter Scale Day, and World Intellectual Property Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Frederick Law Olmsted and Chernobyl
ON THIS DATE
- 1777 - 16-year-old Sybil Ludington rode 40 miles to warn American colonial forces that the British were coming.
- 1803 - Thousands of meteor fragments fall on L'Aigle, France.
- 1865 - Union cavalry troops corner and kill John Wilkes Booth.
- 1937 - Guernica, Spain, is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
- 1986 - A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine in the Soviet Union.
- 2000 - Vermont Governor Howard Dean signs the first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.
- 121 - Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius
- 1785 - Ornithologist and painter John James Audubon
- 1822 - Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted
- 1862 - Painter Edmund C. Tarbell
- 1866 - Singer Ma Rainey
- 1888 - Screenwriter and playwright Anita Loos
- 1898 - Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre
- 1900 - Seismologist and physicist Charles Francis Richter
- 1914 - Novelist Bernard Malamud
- 1917 - Architect I. M. Pei
- 1933 - Actor Carol Burnett
- 1946 - Poet and author Marilyn Nelson
- 1970 - Former First Lady Melania Trump
- Jay Wright - The Lake in Central Park
- Meena Alexander - Central Park, Carousel
- Marilyn Nelson - How I Discovered Poetry
THEME: Frederick Law Olmsted
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America Clips - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing Western New York (26:39) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Olmsted's 'Parks for the People' (28:34) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Windows to the Wild - Discover the Emerald Necklace (26:47) - VIEW
THEME: Chernobyl
- Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Building Chernobyl’s MegaTomb: Engineering a Safe Confinement Structure Media Gallery - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - On Story - On Writing Chernobyl (26:47) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Why Chernobyl is Suddenly a Hotspot for Global Tourists (7:21) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - The Impact of Chernobyl's Nuclear Disaster 33 Years Later (4:28) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Building Chernobyl's MegaTomb (52:55) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - From Wilderness to Wilderness (4:20) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Building Chernobyl’s MegaTomb - Protecting Workers from Gamma Radiation (1:31) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - The Chernobyl Event: An Update at 35 Years (56:46) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Frontline - Nuclear Reaction: Meltdown (2:07) - VIEW and DO
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