Girls and Women in Sports - February 5

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Today is Adlai Stevenson Day, Disaster Day, National Chocolate Fondue Day, National Primrose Day, National Weatherperson's Day, World Nutella Day, Girls & Women in Sports, National Signing Day, and World Read Aloud Day.

Black History Month Resource of the Day: Hank Aaron

• PBS NewsHour - Looking Back at the Baseball Legend Hank Aaron
• Baseball Hall of Fame - Hank Aaron
• Yogi Berra Museum - When Baseball Led America Lesson Plan

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Girls and Women in Sports

ON THIS DATE

• 1907 - Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the first synthetic plastic.
• 1917 - The U.S. Congress overrides President Wilson's veto and passes the Immigration Act of 1917, which severely restricts immigration from Asia.
• 1924 - The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals.
• 1937 - President Roosevelt proposes increasing the number of Supreme Court justices.
• 1958 - A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, and has not been recovered.
• 1971 - Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
• 1994 - Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
• 2020 - President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1848 - Outlaw Belle Starr 
• 1892 - Tennis player Elizabeth Ryan
• 1934 - Baseball player Hank Aaron
• 1942 - Quarterback Roger Staubach
• 1948 - Actor and director Christopher Guest
• 1964 - Actor Laura Linney

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Don Ho - Tiny Bubbles - LISTEN

THEME:  Girls and Women in Sports

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Venus Williams and Elmo (2:55) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Chloe Kim and Big Bird (2:44) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Naomi Osaka and Elmo and using sunscreen (2:08) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS Kids - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Good Luck Billie (2:01) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS Kids - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Billie Jean King: A Tennis Racquet (2:23) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS Kids - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (3:01) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS Kids - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Kristi Yamaguchi's Journey (1:59) - VIEW
• Grades 3-5 - PBS Learning Media - GIRL POWER - Power up with Determination! (3:52) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-8 - National Council for the Social Studies - Teaching about Female Sports Icons and Gender Equity -READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NY Times - Title IX: ‘How Women Sports Teams Got Their Start’ (3:36) VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Breaking the Gender Barrier in Little League, 1974 (3:47) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Ken Burns Baseball - Women in Baseball (12:07) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearniingMedia - PBS NewsHour - A Look at Serena Williams' Legacy as She Nears Retirement (12:23) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Playing For The World: 1904 Fort Shaw Indian Girls' Basketball Team Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Equal Pay in Sports: Billie Jean King's Lasting Legacy - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grade 6-12 - PBS LearningMEdia - PBS NewsHour - Simone Biles Cements Status as Greatest Gymnast (6:32) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Groundbreakers - Billie Jean King and the Importance of Inclusion - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Groundbreakers - The Origins of Title IX (3:56)  - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Groundbreakers - Patsy Mink: A Champion of Title IX (3:56) - VIEW and  DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Unladylike 2020 - Annie Smith Peck (10:40) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Unladylike 2020 - Sonora Webster Carter (10:02) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video- Playing Like a Girl: the House That Robs Built (54:58) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Women on the Court: Billie Jean King to Rebecca Lobo - VIEW, READ, DO

Pressroom Contact

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