Musical Instruments
Sounds of Learning
Saturday, July 31, 2021
Today is International Slumber Party Day, National Avocado Day, National Mutt Day, and Uncommon Instruments Awareness Day.
July is National Parks & Recreation Month and National Ice Cream Month.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
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ON THIS DATE
- 1777 - 19-year-old Frenchman Marquis de Lafayette, is made a major-general in the American Continental Army.
- 1790 - The first U.S. patent is issued to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
- 1970 - Yo, Ho, Ho, and No Bottle of Rum - The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the British Royal Navy.
- 1971 - Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
- 1991 - The U.S. and Soviet Union sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
- 2006 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro hands over power to his brother, Raúl.
- 2012 - Swimmer Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Russian gymnast Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.
- 1945 - 68th Massachusetts governor William Weld
- 1956 - 71st Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick
- 1965 - Author J. K. Rowling
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street- Instruments - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS Kids - Music Games - DO
- Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Pinkalicious and Peterriffic - Hybrid Musical Instrument Artist - VIEW
- Grades K-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Music Art Toolkit - Introduction to Instruments of the World - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Music Art Toolkit - IImmigrant Instrument: The Mandolin - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Sound Field- It's Time to Rethink the Banjo - VIEW, READ, DO
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- 7-8 pm NH WORLD - Icon: Music Through The Lens - On the Record
- 8-9:30 pm NH WORLD - American Masters - Althea
- 10-11 pm NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Moroni For President
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