Cinco de Mayo, Astronauts, and African Art and Culture - May 5

Thursday, May 5, 2022

Today is African World Heritage Day, Cartoonists Day, Cinco de Mayo, International Roller Derby Day, National Astronaut Day, Revenge of the Fifth, and World Portuguese Language Day.
May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Cinco de Mayo and African Art and Culture

ON THIS DATE

• 1260 - Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
• 1809 - Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
• 1821 -  Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena.
• 1904 - Boston American pitcher Cy Young throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
• 1925 - John T. Scopes is arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
• 1961 - Derry, NH native,  Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space.
• 1973 -  Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59 2/5, a record that still stands.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1813 - Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard
• 1818 - German socialist and philosopher Karl Marx
• 1864 - Journalist Nellie Bly
• 1883 - Mathematician Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler
• 1910 - Author and illustrator Leo Lionni
• 1942 - Country singer Tammy Wynette
• 1943 - English actor and screenwriter Michael Palin
• 1988 - English singer-songwriter Adele

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Adele - Hello - LISTEN
• Tammy Wynette - Stand By Your Man - LISTEN
• ABBA - Waterloo - LISTEN
• David Bowie - Space Oddity - LISTEN
• Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield on the ISS - Space Oddity - LISTEN
• Elton John - Rocket Man - LISTEN

THEME:  Cinco de Mayo

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cinco de Mayo (2:01) - VIEW
• Grades 2-6 - All About the Holidays - Cinco de Mayo (1:33) - VIEW

THEME: Astronauts

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - A is for Astronaut (0:36) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Pizza Delivery Astronaut the Musical (7:20) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Wimee's Words - Astronauts (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Daniel Tigers Neiborhood - Ryan Meets an Astronaut (1:55) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Let's Go Luna - Cosmonauts and Astronauts (6:24) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-3 - NHPBS Video - Colorado Classroom - All About Astronauts - (1:56:39) - VIEW
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Astronauts Collection (51:44) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-6 - NHPBS Video - Curious Crew - Astronauts (2:00) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Space Clothes with Astronaut Doug Wheelock (5:47) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Life On the International Space Station: An Astronaut's Day (3:09)
  - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - My Path - Joe Acaba: NASA Astronaut  (1:32) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMeda - Smithsonian Science Starters - Gardening Time with Astronaut Peggy Whitson (3:59)  - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Space Chase USA - Race into Orbit - Gagarin and Shepard (1:31) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - New Hampshire in Space (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Do Astronauts Need Sunscreen? (5:03) - VIEW

THEME:  African Art and Culture

• Grades 4-12 - National Museum of African Art - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - Yale University Art Gallery - African Art - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - Metropolitan Museum of Art - Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - The Kennedy Center - African Dance - READ, VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - Africa's Vibrant Arts: Past and Present (54:28) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Arts Plus - African Art  (6:52) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - West African Ankara Prints (6:21) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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