Jackie Robinson - January 31

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Today is Backward Day, Eat Brussels Sprouts Day, National Hot Chocolate Day, and Scotch Tape Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Jackie Robinson
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ON THIS DATE

• 1865 - The United States Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery, and submitted it to the states for ratification.
• 1949 - These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera, is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago

BIRTHDAYS

• 1797 - Austrian pianist and composer Franz Schubert
• 1872 - Author Zane Grey
• 1881 - Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova
• 1902 - Actor Tallulah Bankhead
• 1915 - Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax
• 1919 - Baseball player Jackie Robinson
• 1921 - Actor Carol Channing
• 1923 - Writer Norman Mailer
• 1937 - Composer Philip Glass
• 1981 - Singer Justin Timberlake

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Franz Shubert - Seranade - LISTEN
• Natalie Cole - Did You See Jacky Robinson Hit That Ball? - LISTEN
• Carol Channing - Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend - LISTEN
• Philip Glass - Truman Sleeps - LISTEN
• Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body - LISTEN
• NSYNC - Sesame Street - Believe in Yourself - LISTEN

THEME:  Jackie Robinson

• Grades PreK-2 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Baseball is for Everyone (0:50) - VIEW
  
• Grades 3-7 - PBS LearningMedia - American Icons - Jackie Robinson: Athlete and Activist Video (4:06) - VIEW
• Grades 3-7 - PBS LearningMedia - American Icons - Jackie Robinson: Athlete and Activist Lesson - DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LeearningMedia - Ken Burns Baseball - Crossing the Color Line: Jackie Robinson’s Early Career (10:25) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Ken Burns in the Classroom - Jackie Robinson - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Jackie Robinson (Full Program and Extras) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Breaking Barriers - Jackie Robinson as a Player on the Montreal Royals (6:43) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Metrofocus - How Jackie Robinson Impacted More Than Baseball (5:47)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Metrofocus - The Other Boys of Summer (6:00) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - The Long Influence of Jackie Robinson, On and Off the Field (7:31) - VIEW

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

NATURE - Gorilla
Wednesday, 1/31 from 8-9 pm NHPBS
Gabon's Loango National Park is home to a group of western lowland gorillas that have become accustomed to biologists who have studied them for almost 20 years. This documentary presents an intimate look at a silverback and his family and features a newborn baby gorilla, brave researchers, forest elephants, buffaloes, and the last remaining wild coastline in the African tropics. NATURE Streaming Video

NOVA - When Whales Could Walk
Wednesday, 1/31 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
A spectacular fossil graveyard reveals a 43-million-year-old whale that had four legs and could walk. Follow scientists as they search for new clues to how mammals moved from land into the sea to become the largest animals on Earth. NOVA Streaming Video

NATURE - Raising the Dinosaur Giant
Wednesday, 1/31 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
Witness the work of paleontologists bringing the largest dinosaur ever discovered to virtual life. Sir David Attenborough guides us through the remarkable process, connecting the dots with living examples, other dinosaur discoveries, and CGI visuals. NATURE Streaming Video

NH EXPLORE- 11.2 Comcast (11/801) More Options

CIVILIZATIONS - Paradise on Earth
Wednesday, 1/31 from 11 am-12 pm NH EXPLORE
Explore one of humanity's deepest artistic urges: the depiction of nature. But landscape painting is seldom a straightforward portrayal of observed nature; it's a projection of dreams, idylls, escapes, and refuges of the elusive paradise on earth. CIVILIZATIONS Streaming Video

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - An American 1775-1790
Wednesday, 1/31 from 1-3 pm NH EXPLORE
In wartime Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin helps Thomas Jefferson craft the Declaration of Independence. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Streaming Video

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Citizen Hearst: Part 2
Wednesday, 1/31 from 3-5 pm NH EXPLORE
Follow William Randolph Hearst's continued rise to power and expansion into Hollywood. The model for Citizen Kane, he had a decades-long affair with actress Marion Davies, built an enormous castle at San Simeon, and forever transformed modern media. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video

HISTORY DETECTIVES
Wednesday, 1/31 from 5-6 pm NH EXPLORE
What can a Club Continental business card tell us about California's prohibition-era underground? Then, did gangs use this shotgun in the Chicago St. Valentine's Day massacre that shocked the nation? And why is FDR on the guest list for a High Society Circus during the depths of the Depression? HISTORY DETECTIVES Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 Comcast (956) More Options

ANCIENT INVISIBLE CITIES - Athens
Wednesday, 1/31 from 2-3 pm NH WORLD
Uncover the hidden secrets of ancient Athens, the city that gave the world democracy. Professor Darius Arya uses the latest 3D scanning to reveal Athens' treasures, from the buildings on the Acropolis to the silver mines and quarries beyond the city.  ANCIENT INVISIBLE CITIES Streaming Video

ANCIENT INVISIBLE CITIES - Cairo
Wednesday, 1/31 from 3-4 pm NH WORLD
See how 3D scanning can be used to explore Egypt's ancient treasures, including the Great Pyramid of Giza and the first pyramid ever built, a hidden Roman fortress, and a well deep in the rock below the Arabic citadel of Saladin. ANCIENT INVISIBLE CITIES Streaming Video

ANCIENT INVISIBLE CITIES - Istanbul
Wednesday, 1/31 from 4-5 pm NH WORLD
Uncover the hidden secrets of ancient Athens, the city that gave the world democracy. Professor Darius Arya uses the latest 3D scanning to reveal Athens' treasures, from the buildings on the Acropolis to the silver mines and quarries beyond the city.  ANCIENT INVISIBLE CITIES Streaming Video

SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Hannibal in the Alps
Wednesday, 1/31 from 8-9 pm NH WORLD
Follow forensic anthropologists as they excavate the early American colony and uncover dark secrets. What do the newly discovered bones of a 14-year-old English girl reveal about what really happened during the winter of 1609? SECRETS OF THE DEAD Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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