April Fools' Day - April 1

Thursday, April 1, 2022

Today is April Fools Day, National Trombone Players Day, and Student Government Day.

* Indicates a poet or poetry resource in celebration of National Poetry Month.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: April Fools' Day

ON THIS DATE

• 1789 - The U.S. House of Representatives holds its first full meeting in New York City.
• 1945 -  American forces invade Okinawa.
• 1954 -  President Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
• 1970 - President Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertising on television and radio.
• 1976 - Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne.
• 1979 - Nickelodeon is launched.
• 1999 - Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1578 - English physician William Harvey
• 1647 - English poet John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester *
• 1776 - French mathematician and physicist Sophie Germain
• 1852 - Painter and illustrator Edwin Austin Abbey
• 1873 - Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff
• 1883 - Actor Lon Chaney
• 1884 -  U.S. Army Colonel Florence Blanchfield
• 1932 - Actor Debbie Reynolds
• 1950 - Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito
• 1953 - Director Barry Sonnenfeld
• 1973 - Journalist Rachel Maddow

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Beatles - Fool On the Hill  - LISTEN
• Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools - LISTEN
• Doobie Brothers - What a Fool Believes - LISTEN
• Steve Perry - Foolish Heart - LISTEN
• The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again - LISTEN
• Sergei Rachmaninoff - Prelude in C Sharp Minor - LISTEN
• Singing in the Rain - Good Morning (ft. Debbie Reynolds) - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 
John Donne - The Triple Fool

THEME:  APRIL FOOLS' DAY

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo Spreads Kindness by Sharing a Joke (0:59) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS Kids- Martha Speaks - April Fools' Day Joke (0:49) - VIEW
• Grades 2-6 - PBS LearningMedia - All About the Holidays - April Fools' Day (1:00) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia- NOVA scienceNOW - Hippocampus Humor: Comic Science (1:16) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video- Braincraft - Why Are Some People So Easily Fooled (2:43) - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - George Plimpton's Famous April Fool's Day Joke (3:11) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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