New Year's Day - January 1

Monday, January 1, 2024

Today is New Year’s Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: New Year's Day

ON THIS DATE

• 1808 - The U.S. bans the importation of slaves.
• 1863 - The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.
• 1892 - Ellis Island begins processing immigrants into the U.S.
• 1902 - The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl, is held in Pasadena, California.
• 1959 - Fidel Castro leads Cuban revolutionaries to victory over Fulgencio Batista.
• 1971 - Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
• 1979 - The U.S. and China establish diplomatic relations.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1449 - Italian politician Lorenzo de' Medici
• 1735 - Silversmith and patriot Paul Revere
• 1752 - Seamstress Betsy Ross
• 1895 - FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
• 1919 - Author J. D. Salinger

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Mariah Carey - Auld Lang Syne - LISTEN
  

THEME: New Year's Day

• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Kid Vision - Chinese New Year (8:44)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - Arthur - Arthur's First Sleepover / Arthur's New Year's Eve (24:46) - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - WordGirl - Happy New Year (2:21)  - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - PBS LearningMedia - New Year's Refection  Worksheet - DO
• Grades K-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Odd Squad - Olive's New Year's Resolutions (1:40) - VIEW
• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase  - Harry's New Year's Eve (3:26)  - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Tibetan New Year (3:01) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Religion & Ethics Newsweekly - Chinese New Year (2:57) - VIEW and DO

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Pressroom Contact

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