Amelia Earhart - July 24
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Sunday, July 24, 2022
Today is Amelia Earhart Day, Cousins Day, National Drive-Thru Day, National Tequila Day, and Tell An Old Joke Day.
July is National Parks & Recreation Month and National Ice Cream Month.
National Natural Wonder Day: Hawai'i Volcanoes National Parks
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Amelia Earhart
ON THIS DATE
- 1959 - U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate" at the American National Exhibition in Moscow,
- 1974 - The Supreme Court unanimously rules that President Richard Nixon had no authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes.
- 1783 - Military commander and politician Simón Bolívar
- 1802 - French author Alexandre Dumas
- 1897 - Pilot Amelia Earhart
- 1900 - Writer Zelda Fitzgerald
- 1920 - Politician Bella Abzug
- Joni Mitchell - Amelia - LISTEN
- Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me - LISTEN
- Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away - LISTEN
- Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly - LISTEN
- Grades K-3 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Amelia Earhart Brochure - READ
- Grades K-3 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Amelia Earhart Coloring Sheet - DO
- Grades K-3 - Xavier Riddle READ ALONG! With Author Brad Meltzer - I Am Amelia Earhart (13:26) - VIEW
- Grades 3-8 - NHPBS Learningmedia - Amelia Earhart - Aviator, Record-breaker, and Activist (Available in Spanish) (4:00) - VIEW, READ, and DO
- Grades 3-12 - ReadWriteThink - Amelia Earhart Resources - READ and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience- Amelia Earhart Chapter One (8:39) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Images of the Past - Finding Amelia (27:19) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Newly Discovered Footage of Amelia Earhart Unearthed (1:12) - VIEW
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