Sherlock Holmes and Mary Cassatt - May 22

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Today is Canadian Immigrants Day, Buy a Musical Instrument Day, Maritime Day, Solitaire Day, Vanilla Pudding Day, Sherlock Holmes Day, and Goth Day.

May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Sherlock Holmes and Mary Cassatt
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Resource of the Day

ON THIS DATE

• 1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition begins.
• 1819 - SS Savannah leaves Savannah, Georgia on a journey that will make it the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1849 - Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. president to ever hold a patent.
• 1856 - Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate over a speech Sumner gave about slavery in the South. 
• 1900 - The Associated Press is formed.
• 1906 - The Wright brothers are granted a patent for their "Flying-Machine."
• 1927 - An 8.3 magnitude near Xining, China, kills 200,000.
• 1968 - The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard.
• 1992 - Johnny Carson hosts his last Tonight Show.
• 2002 - A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
• 2011 -  An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158.
• 2017 - Twenty-two people are killed in a bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1813 - German composer Richard Wagner
• 1844 - Painter Mary Cassatt
• 1959 - Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle
• 1907 - English actor Laurence Olivier
• 1930 - Politician Harvey Milk
• 1950 - English songwriter Bernie Taupin
• 1959 - English singer-songwriter Morrissey
• 1960 - Japanese animator and director Hideaki Anno

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives - LISTEN
• The Monkees - Mary Mary - LISTEN
• Elton John - Tiny Dancer (Lyrics by Bernie Taupin) - LISTEN
• Morrisey - Everyday is Like Sunday -  LISTEN
• Richard Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries - LISTEN

ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER RESOURCE OF THE DAY
NHPBS LearningMedia - Asian Americans in the Arts

THEME: Sherlock Holmes

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Sherlock Hemlock Helps Maria (2:43) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Ernlock Holmes (5:13) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Ernie's Half-Eaten Sandwich (3:03) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Lakeshore Classic Movies - Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) (1:08:04) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Lakeshore Classic Movies - Terror By Night  (1946) (59:33) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Hound of the Baskervilles 1: Meet Sherlock Holmes (1:47) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -The Hound of the Baskervilles 2: The Mysterious Moor (2:05) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Hound of the Baskervilles 3: The Seance (1:54) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-8 - ReadWriteThink - Expository Escapade - Detective's Handbook Lesson Plan - READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 - ReadWriteThink - Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story Lesson Plan - READ and DO

THEME: Mary Cassatt

• Grades K-1 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - Mary Cassatt (14:14) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - National Gallery of Art - Art Starters - Mary Cassatt - DO
• Grades 5-12 - National Gallery of Art - Mary Cassatt - READ and VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS Learning Media - Kentucky Virtual Art Museum - L'Enfant (The Child), 1905 - READ and DO
• Grades 7-12 - The Art Assignment - The Case for Impressionism (12:41) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - Mary Cassatt: A Brush with Independence (56:20) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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