Unicorns - April 9

Saturday, April 9, 2022

Today is Winston Churchill Day and National Unicorn Day.

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

ON THIS DATE

• 1784 - The The Treaty of Paris is ratified by King George III ending the Revolutionary War.
• 1865 - Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
• 1939 - Black singer Marian Anderson gives a concert at the Lincoln Memorial after being the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let her sing at Constitution Hall.
• 1959 - NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, known as the "Mercury Seven".

BIRTHDAYS

• 1898 - Singer and actor Paul Robeson
• 1921 - Mathematician Mary Jackson
• 1925 - Photographer Art Kane
• 1954 - Actor Dennis Quaid
• 1990 - Actor Kristen Stewart
• 1998 - Actor Elle Fanning

SONGS OF THE DAY

Paul Robeson - Ol' Man River LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY
Stanley Plumly - White Rhino

THEME: Unicorns, Rhinos, and Other Horned Animals

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Uni the Unicorn (5:23) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Pinkalicious and Peteriffic - Great Unicorn Challenge (2:10) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - Pinkalicious and Peteriffic - That Unicorn Feeling (1:49) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Pinkalicious and Peteriffic - Picture a Unicorn (3:10) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Let's Share a Story: "It's Okay to be a Unicorn" (9:59) - VIEW
• Grades PreK
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - Unicorn Thinks he's Pretty Great (26:37) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Arthur - DW's Unicorn Adventure App - DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Ask MIT - Could You Make a Unicorn by Crossing DNA? (2:46) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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