Swans and Swan Lake - February 20

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Today is Clean Out Your Bookcase Day, Cherry Pie Day, Muffin Day, World Anthropology Day, and Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day.

Black History Month Resource of the Day: Barack Obama

• Barack Obama - 60 Second Presidents
• Law Student Barack Obama 1991

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Swans

ON THIS DATE

• 1792 - President George Washington signs an act creating the U.S. Post Office.
• 1816 -  Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres in Rome.
• 1872 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City
• 1877 - Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake  premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow
• 1962 - John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth.
• 2003 -  A fire breaks out at a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, killing 100 and injuring over 200.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1902 - Photographer Ansel Adams
• 1927 - Actor Sidney Poitier
• 1967 - Singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain
• 1984 - Comedian Trevor Noah
• 1988 - Singer-songwriter Rihanna

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Bugs Bunny at the Symphony - Rabbit of Seville - LISTEN
• Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit - LISTEN
  
• Rihanna - Umbrella - LISTEN

THEME: Swans

• Grades PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia - Super Why - The Ugly Duckling Becoming a Swan (23:55) - VIEW and DO
• GRades K-3 - NHPBS Video - Camp TV - Swans (0:59) - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Music Arts Toolkit - The Romantic Period: Swan Lake Ballet (4:34) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal, Jr. - Mute Swan - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal, Jr. - Tundra Swan - READ
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia -Nature - Sitara the Swan (4:41) - VIEW, READ, DO

Pressroom Contact

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