Superman and the Berlin Wall - June 12

Sunday, June 12, 2022

Today is Bunker Hill Day, National Superman Day, National Peanut Butter Cookie Day,  and Loving Day.

June is Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Month; National Oceans Month; National Rivers Month; and National Caribbean-American Heritage Month

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Ocean/River Resource of the Day
Today's Theme:  Superman and the Berlin Wall

ON THIS DATE

• 1775 - British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. 
• 1817 -  Karl von Drais rides his invention, the Laufmaschine or dandy horse, an early form of the bicycle.1939 
• 1939 - The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
• 1963 - NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
• 1964 -  Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa.
• 1967 - The Supreme Court rules in Loving v. Virginia that state laws prohibiting interracial marriage are unconstitutional.
• 1987 - In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, President Ronald Reagan demanded that Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev  ''tear down this wall.'' 
• 2016 - 49 people are killed in a shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
• 2018 -  President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea hold the first meeting between leaders of their two countries.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1824 - Swiss author of Heidi, Johanna Spyri
• 1924 - 41st President George H. W. Bush
• 1924 - German-Dutch diarist Anne Frank
• 1933 - Photojournalist Eddie Adams

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Five for Fighting -  Superman (It's Not Easy) -  LISTEN
• The Kinks -  (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman - LISTEN
  

OCEAN/RIVER RESOURCE OF THE DAY

NOAA - Exploring the Ocean with Robots  - VIEW

THEME: SUPERMAN

• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Superman's Favorite Letter - S (1:13) -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo the Superhero Musical (7:17) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Hero Elementary - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-6 - ReadWriteThink-Is Superman Really All That Super? Critically Exploring Superheroes -  READ and DO
• Grades - Adults - PBS Parents -The Superhero Solution: How Make-Believe Boosts Kids’ Perseverance - READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Primary Source Set: Truth, Justice, and the Birth of the Superhero Comic Book -VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12  - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - After 75 Years, an Untarnished Reputation for Superman (6:46)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Up, Up and Away (10:23) - VIEW

THEME: BERLIN WALL

• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Teaching with Primary Sources - Fall of the Berlin Wall Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grade 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Statecraft: The Bush 41 Team - Fall of the Berlin Wall (5:26) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - 30 Years After the Berlin Wall (9:28) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment - The Berlin Wall and Beyond: An Online High School Curriculum - READ and DO

Pressroom Contact

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