Cats - October 29

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Today is National Cat Day, National Oatmeal Day, and Visit a Cemetery Day.

Animal Cam of the Day: Cheetah Cub Cam - Smithsonian's National Zoo
Dessert of the Day: Cranberry White Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies with Sour Cream Frosting 
LGBT History Resource of the Day: Gay Puppeteer Uses His Art to Bring Understanding to Kansas
Scary Resource of the Day: Call of the Mummy Radio Drama

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  CATS
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ON THIS DATE

• 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for conspiring against King James I.
• 1787 -  Mozart's opera Don Giovanni is performed for the first time in Prague.
• 1901 - Serial killer nurse Jane Toppan "Jolly Jane" is arrested in Amherst, Massachusetts for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
• 1929 - The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what became known as Black Tuesday.
• 1940 - The U.S. begins its first peacetime military draft.
• 1956 - Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
• 1969 - The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, which is the precursor to the internet.
• 1991 - The Galileo spacecraft becomes the first probe to visit an asteroid when it passes by 951 Gaspra on its way to Jupiter.
• 1998 - 77-year-old former astronaut and senator John Glenn becomes the oldest person to go into space when he blasts off on the Space Shuttle Discovery
• 2002 - Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing 148 and leaving behind $70 billion in damages.
• 2015 - After 35 years, China announces the end of its One-child policy.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1837 - Folk artist and quilter Harriet Powers
• 1891 - Singer and actor Fanny Brice
• 1930 - Sculptor and painter Niki de Saint Phalle
• 1942 - Painter and TV host Bob Ross
• 1947 - Actor Richard Dreyfuss
• 1971 - Actor Winona Ryder

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Stray Cats  - Stray Cat Strut - LISTEN
  
• Jane's Addiction - My Cat's Name is  Maceo - LISTEN
• The Aristocats - Everybody Wants to Be a Cat - LISTEN
• Al Stewart - Year of the Cat - LISTEN
  
• Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat - LISTEN

THEME: CATS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - C is for Counting Cats (1:28) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Peep in the Big Wide World - Cat Categories (1:28) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Peep in the Big Wide World - That's a Cat (8:50) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Simon's Cat and Elmo take a Nap! (2:55) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Peg + Cat - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5- NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cat Adaptations - Agility (3:58) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cat Adaptations - Super Senses (4:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cats (8:28) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - PBS Learning Media - Untamed - The Case for Indoor Cats (26:46) -VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cats - Yesterday and Today (6:54) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Animal Adaptations - Fishing Cat (4:18) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature -  Super Cats:  Episode 1 - Extreme Lives (53:28) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Super Cats: Episode 2 - Cats in Every Corner 
• (53:29)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Super Cats: Episode 3 - Science and Secrets (53:28)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Cat Tales (53:41) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How We Domesticated Cats (Twice) (7:47) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats (7:31) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Windows to the Wild - Rico The Hiking Cat (26:45) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Film School Shorts - Trash Cat (2:06) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video -  Monstrum - The Wicked Feline Murder Floof, a Yule Cat Story (9:50) - VIEW

Watch 

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (802) Live Stream More Options

GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET - Don Giovanni
Sunday, 10/29 from 11 am- 2:30 pm NHPBS
Tony-Award-winning director of Broadway's "A View from the Bridge" and "West Side Story," Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart's tragicomedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the dark corners of the story and its characters. GREAT PERFORMANCES Streaming Video

NHPBS EXPLORE - 11.2 Comcast (801) More Options

BASEBALL - Shadow Ball
Saturday, 10/29 from 2:30-5 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
The fifth "inning" of Ken Burns's film BASEBALL looks at baseball's desperate attempts to survive the Great Depression and Babe Ruth's fading career, while a new generation of stars, including Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams, is on the rise. It also presents the parallel world of the Negro Leagues, which thrived in the shadow of the Major Leagues. BASEBALL - Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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