Cats - October 29

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Today is National Cat Day, National Oatmeal Day, and Hermit Day.

Animal Cam of the Day: Lion 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

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

Pressroom Contact

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