Friends and Cuba - October 19
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Sunday, October 19, 2025
Today is National Seafood Bisque Day, Gin and Tonic Day, and Rainforest Day.
Wild Animal Month Animal Cam of the Day: Sealion Cam at Hanson Island, British Columbia, Canada
Spooky Dessert of the Day: Candy Corn Cookies
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
- 1781 - The siege of Yorktown comes to an end.
- 1789 - John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Friends and Cuba
- 1781 - British General Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, effectively ending the Revolutionary War.
- 1953 - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is published.
- 1960 - Bobby Orr makes his NHL regular-season debut for the Boston Bruins.
- 1960 - The U.S. places an embargo on exports to Cuba.
- 1975 - A Chorus Line premieres on Broadway.
- 1983 - US Senate votes to establish a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. by a vote of 78–22. (In 1999, New Hampshire became the last state to name a holiday after King.)
- 1987 - Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 508 points, a 22%, drop in what is known as Black Monday.
- 1850 - Mountaineer Annie Smith Peck
- 1862 - French inventor Auguste Lumière
- 1910 - Indian astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1944 - Jamaican musician Peter Tosh
- 1945 - Actor Divine
- 1960 - Actor and singer Jennifer Holliday
- Jennifer Holliday -
And I am Telling You - LISTEN - Peter Tosh - Get Up Stand Up - LISTEN
- James Taylor - You've Got a Friend - LISTEN
- Randy Neuman - You've Got a Friend in Me - LISTEN
- Queen - You're My Best Friend - LISTEN
- The Beatles - With a Little Help From My Friends - LISTEN
- War - Why Can't We Be Friends - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Be a Good Friend (with Gwen Stefani) (1:39) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - What is a Friend (2:28) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Because We're Friends (2:07) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Muslim Youth Voices - Friends in Time (4:21) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature Unlikely Friends (6:14) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends (9:21) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Open Mind - The Science and Necessity of Friendship (28:07) - VIEW
THEME: CUBA
- Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cuba's Wild Revolution -The World's Smallest Bird (4:44) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Cuba: The Accidental Eden - Sea Turtles (5:20) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cuba's Wild Revolution - Marine Conservation in Cuba (3:34) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - The Legacy of Cuba’s Fidel Castro (9:52) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Cuba's Wild Revolution (53:13) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Music Arts Toolkit - Cuba: The Latin Beat (9:04) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Cuban Crab Migration (4:09) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour -Striking a Balance Between New and Old in Havana (7:29) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour -Why Cuba is Home to a Bounty of Rare Species (7:49) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - We'll Meet Again - Escape from Cuba (55:00) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Hemingway - Hemingway, the Sea, and Cuba (1:01:07) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - The Sounds of Cuba (26:47) - VIEW
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