Hamsters

Monday, May 10, 2021

Today is Clean Your Room Day, National Golf Day, National Hamster Day, and National Liver and Onions Day.

May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Hamsters
Watch

ON THIS DATE

• 1773 - The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act.
• 1774 - Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
• 1775 - Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys capture Fort Ticonderoga.
• 1775 - The Second Continental Congress takes place in Philadelphia.
• 1849 - A least 22 people are killed and 120 injured when a riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in New York City, in what became known as the  Astor Place Riot.
• 1869 - A golden spike was driven at  Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S.
• 1872 - Suffragist Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman to run for President of the United States.
• 1908 -  Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
• 1940 - Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain.
• 1962 -  Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk. 
• 1994 -  Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1838 - Actor and assassin John Wilkes Booth
• 1899 - Actor and dancer Fred Astaire
• 1902 - Director David O. Selznick
• 1909 - Musician Maybelle Carter
• 1919 - Politician and Connecticut governor Ella Grasso
• 1946 - Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan
• 1960 - Irish singer-songwriter Bono
• 1963 - Astronaut Lisa Nowak

SONGS OF THE DAY 

Maybelle Carter - Wildwood Flower - LISTEN
U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - LISTEN
Donovan - Mellow Yellow - LISTEN

THEME:  Hamsters

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Telly is Jealous - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS Kids - Team Hamster - Solve It All - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS Kids - Team Hamster - Bubble Trouble - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS Kids - Team Hamster - Roll to the Rescue - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Ruff Ruffman - Eye of the Hamster -VIEW 
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Ruff Ruffman -Make Sure It's a  Hamster - VIEW
  
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Ruff Ruffman - Hamster Run Game -VIEW and DO
• Grades K-3 - PBS Learning Media - Odd Squad - How to Feed the Hamster
  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS LeariningMedia - Nature Cat - Meet Sir Galahad - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Team Hamster - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal - Calomyscidae - mouse-like hamsters - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal - Cricetidae - New World rats, mice, voles, muskrats, lemmings, hamsters - READ
• Grades 6-12 - Cool Green Science - Wild Hamster: The Intriguing Story Behind The Household Pet - READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - EONS - The Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Reel 13 - My Heart Belongs to You - VIEW

Watch 

• 9-10 am NH WORLD - Eyes on the Prize - Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More 1964-1972
• 10-11 am NH WORLD - Eyes on the Prize - A Nation Of Law? 1968-1971
• 12-12:30 pm NH WORLD - SciGirls - Mother Nature's Shoes
• 12:30-1 pm NH WORLD - Changing Seas - The Cordell Bank: A National Treasure
• 1-2 pm NH WORLD - Nova Wonders - What's The Universe Made Of?
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Life from Above - Colorful Planet
• 3-4 pm NH WORLD - Eyes on the Prize - Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More 1964-1972
• 4-5 pm NH WORLD - Eyes on the Prize - A Nation Of Law? 1968-1971
• 8-9 pm NH WORLD - Pacific Heartbeat - The Australian Dream
  
• 9-9:30 pm NH WORLD - FILMS BYKIDS
• 10-11:30 pm NHPBS - P.O.V. - Through The Night
  

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339