Frederick Douglass and Valentine's Day - February 14
Learning About Our History
Friday, February 14, 2025
Today is Frederick Douglass Day, Book Giving Day, League of Women Voters Day, Library Lovers Day, Ferris Wheel Day, Read to Your Child Day, Valentine’s Day, and World Bonobo Day.
Black History Month Resource of the Day: Robert Sengstacke Abbott
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Frederick Douglass
ON THIS DATE
- 1859 - Oregon becomes the 33rd state.
- 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone.
- 1912 - Arizona is admitted as the 48th state.
- 1920 - The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
- 1990 - The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes a photograph of Earth known as Pale Blue Dot.
- 2018 - 17 die and 15 are injured in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
- 1813 - Black businesswoman Lydia Hamilton Smith
- 1838 - Inventor Margaret E. Knight
- 1847 - Suffragist Anna Howard Shaw
- 1947 - NH politician and 76th governor Judd Gregg
- 1951 - Radio host Terry Gross
Frank Sinatra - My Funny Valentine - LISTEN
- Grades 3-7 - PBS LearningMedia - American Icons - Frederick Douglass: Orator, Editor, and Abolitionist (Available in Spanish) (3:36) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Reading Frederick Douglas (45:45) - VIEW
- Grades 6-10 - PBS LearningMedia - The African Americans - Frederick Douglass (3:59) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Abolitionists - Ex-slave Frederick Douglass Joins the Abolitionists (1:34) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The African Americans - Fredrick Douglass (5:19) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Life, Beliefs, and Works of Fredrick Douglass - VIEW
THEME: Valentine's Day
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo and Abby's Valentine's Day Song (2:21) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Valentine's Day Red Velvet Pancakes! -Cookie Monster Snack Chat with Joel Gamoran (5:51) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 -Sesame Street: Valentine - I Love You (0:42) - VIEW
- Grades 3-7 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature Cat - Happy Halentine's Day (12:05) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-7 - PBS LearningMedia - All About the Holidays - Valentine's Day (1:03) - VIEW and DO
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