Nelson Mandela - July 18

Monday, July 18, 2022

Today is Global hug Your Kid Day, National Caviar Day, National Sour Candy Day, and Nelson Mandela International Day, World Listening Day.

July is National Parks & Recreation Month and National Ice Cream Month.

National Natural Wonder: Wyoming: Devil's Tower

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Nelson Mandela

ON THIS DATE

• 1969 - A car driven by Ted Kennedy plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island killing passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
• 1998 -  A tsunami along the coast of Papua New Guinea kills 3,000 people.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1635 - English scientist Robert Hooke 
• 1811 - English author William Makepeace Thackeray
• 1918 -  South African President and apartheid leader Nelson Mandela

SONGs OF THE DAY 

• Free Nelson Mandela - The Specials - LISTEN
• Johnny Clegg (With Nelson Mandela) - Asimbonanga - LISTEN

THEME: NELSON MANDELA

• Grades 7-12 - EDSITEment -Nelson Mandela & South Africa Teacher's Guide - DO
• Grades 7-12 - My Hero -Nelson Mandela Curated Multimedia Lesson Plan - VIEW, READ, and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia- Remembering Nelson Mandela (18:23) -  VIEW, READ, and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Nelson Mandela’s Prison Letters Reveal His Unwavering Vision (8:20) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - How Nelson Mandela forever changed South Africa (9:45) - VIEW
  
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video -Basic Black - Nelson Mandela: A Revolutionary Who Preached Reconciliation (26:16) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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