Earth Day - April 22

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Today is Earth Day, April Showers Day, and National Jelly Bean Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Earth Day

ON THIS DATE

• 1889 - The Oklahoma Land Rush begins.
• 1970 - The first Earth Day is celebrated.
• 2016 - The Paris Agreement, designed to fight climate change, is signed.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1707 - English novelist Henry Fielding
• 1724 - German philosoper Immanuel Kant
• 1870 - Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin
• 1899 - Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov
• 1904 - Nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer
• 1922 - Jazz composer and bandleader Charles Mingus
• 1936 - Singer-songwriter Glen Campbell
• 1937 - Actor Jack Nicholson
• 1943 - Poet Louise Glück
• 1946 - Director and screenwriter John Waters

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman - LISTEN
• Charles Mingus - Goodbye Porkpie Hat - LISTEN

POEMS OF THE DAY 

• Louise Gluck - Hyacinth
• Gary Soto - Earth Day on the Bay
  

THEME:  Earth Day

• Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - Earth Day Everyday Song (0:51) - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - Maya and Miguel - Earth Day Celebration (2:15) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - PBS Learning Media - All About the Holidays (1:44) - Earth Day - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS Learning Media - Earth Days: The First Earth Day (2:11) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - The Environmental Movement and the First Earth Day (2:43) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS Learning Media - Celebrate Earth Day Collection - VIEW
• Grades: 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Frontline - Four Films for Earth Day - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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