Amelia Earhart - July 24

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.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1783 - Military commander and politician Simón Bolívar
• 1802 - French author Alexandre Dumas
• 1897 - Pilot Amelia Earhart
• 1900 - Writer Zelda Fitzgerald
• 1920 - Politician Bella Abzug

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Joni Mitchell - Amelia - LISTEN
  
• Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me - LISTEN
  
• Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away - LISTEN
• Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly - LISTEN

THEME: AMELIA EARHART

• 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

Pressroom Contact

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