Juneteenth, Baseball, and Dads- June 19

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Today is Juneteenth, Father's Day, National Watch Day, and World Sickle Cell 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
Today's Theme:  Juneteenth and Baseball

ON THIS DATE

• 325  - The Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea.
• 1846 - The first reported baseball game is played on Hoboken's Elysian Fields. The New York Nine defeated the Knickerbockers.
• 1862 -  U.S. Congress abolishes slavery in U.S. territories.
• 1865 - More than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, slaves in Texas are finally informed of their freedom. The day is now celebrated as Juneteenth.
• 1910 - The first Father's Day is celebrated
• 1917 - King George V changes the British royal family's surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.
  1953 - Convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed.
• 1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved by the Senate after a 54-day filibuster.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1897 - Comedian Moe Howard
• 1902 - Bandleader Guy Lombardo
• 1903 - Baseball player Lou Gehrig
• 1947 - Indian-English author Salman Rushdie
• 1950 - Singer-songwriter Ann Wilson
• 1954 - Actor Kathleen Turner
• 1962 - Singer-songwriter and dancer Paula Abdul
• 1964 - U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson
• 1978 - Actor Zoe Saldana

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Heart - Barracuda - LISTEN
• Paula Abdul - Opposites Attract- LISTEN
• Harry Chapin - Cat's in the Cradle - LISTEN

THEME: JUNETEENTH

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Juneteenth Song (3:07) - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - Learning for Justice - Teaching Juneteenth - READ
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - All About the Holidays - Juneteenth (1:25) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Juneteenth Jamboree Celebrations (3:52) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - ReadWriteThink - Celebrate Juneteenth - READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Should Juneteenth Be a National Holiday? (5:11) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Juneteenth Jamboree - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS Newshour - What is Juneteenth? 4 Things You Should Know - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS Newshour - Lesson Plan: History of Juneteenth and Why It’s Set to Become a National Holiday - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - The African Americans - What is Juneteenth - READ
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Juneteenth Jamboree History (2:59) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - Blackademics - Juneteenth (3:33) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Basic Black - Juneteenth (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Black Journal - Juneteenth/The Tulsa Race Massacre (23:55) - VIEW

BASEBALL

• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Ernie Plays Baseball (2:22) -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Baseball School (1:53) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 Sesame Street - Knock Me Out at the Ball Game (4:35) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Respect is a Homerun - Yankees and Red Sox (1:47) - VIEW
• Grades 4-8 - NHPBS Learningmedia - Dragonfly TV - GPS: Baseball (7:59) -VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Women in Baseball (3:01) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Ken Burns' Baseball in the Classroom - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Physics of Baseball (7:37) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Ken Burns' Baseball - VIEW

THEME: DADS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Monsterpiece Theater - Conversations with My Father (5:18) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Father's Song (1:33) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 -  Sesame Street - Elmo's World - Father's Day (5:02) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - James Cordon Celebrates Father's Day (2:41)  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Daniel Tiger- A Surprise for Dad (2:01) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - All About the Holidays - Father's Day (1:13) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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