Buzzards and Vultures - March 15

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Sunday, March 15, 2026

Today is the Academy Awards, Buzzard Day, The Ides of March, and National Peanut Lovers Day.

Women's History Month Resource of the Day: PBS NewsHour: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE

1783 – In a speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful, and a threatened coup d'état is avoided.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Buzzards and Vultures

ON THIS DATE

44 BC - Julius Caesar is assassinated.
1820 - Maine becomes the 23rd state.
1916 - President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.–Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
1917 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne
1965 - President Johnson called for legislation to guarantee every American's right to vote.
1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union
2011 - Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
2019 - 1.4 million young people in 123 countries go on strike to protest climate change

BIRTHDAYS

1767 - 7th President of the United States Andrew Jackson
1887 - Businessperson Marjorie Merriweather Post
1921 - Television writer Madelyn Pugh
1933 - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1963 - Singer-songwriter Bret Michaels
1970 - Baseball player Kevin Youkilis

SONGS OF THE DAY

Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn - LISTEN

THEME: Buzzards and Vultures

Grades K-12 - San Diego Zoo Safari Park - Condor Cam - VIEW
Grades 4-12 - NHPBS NatureWorks - Decomposers and Scavengers (14:46) - VIEW
Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Turkey Vulture - READ
Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Black Vulture - READ
Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Cathartidae - New World Vultures - READ
Grades 5-12 - PBS Learning Media - Untamed - Vultures (26:44) - VIEW, READ, DO
Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Gross Science - Why Don’t Vultures Get Food Poisoning? (2:20) - VIEW and DO

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