Turtles - May 23

Friday, May 23, 2025

Today is Turtle Day, Lucky Penny Day, and Taffy Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Turtles

ON THIS DATE

• 1788 - South Carolina becomes the eighth state to ratify the  Constitution.
• 1829 -  Cyrill Demian receives a patent for the accordion in Vienna, Austria.
• 1934 - Bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are killed by police in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
• 1939 - The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive. 24 sailors and two civilian technicians died, 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the next day. 
• 1969 - The Who's rock-opera album "Tommy" is released.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1707 - Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus
• 1810 - Journalist Margaret Fuller
• 1824 - General and politician Ambrose Burnside
• 1898 - Author Scott O'Dell
• 1910 - Children's author Margaret Wise Brown
• 1928 - Singer Rosemary Clooney
• 1934 - Engineer and inventor Robert Moog
• 1947 - Poet Jane Kenyon
• 1974 - Singer-songwriter Jewel

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Rosemary Clooney - I Ain't Got Nobody - LISTEN
• Jewel - Who Will Save Your Soul - LISTEN
• The Turtles - You Showed Me - LISTEN
• Elton John - Pinball Wizard - LISTEN
• Merle Haggard - The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde - LISTEN
• George Fame - The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde - LISTEN

ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER RESOURCE OF THE DAY
NHPBS LearningMedia - Asian Americans On the Big Screen: Responding to Stereotypes

THEME: Turtles

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - T is for Turtle (1:46) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - I Get There (2:02) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - Baby Sea Turtles (3:46) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - Celia the Sea Turtle (3:43) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - Splash and Bubbles - Get Your Feet Wet - Baby Sea Turtles (1:29) - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - NHPBS - Up Close and Natural Instructional Video - Turtles (4:25)  - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Seeing Sea Turtles (2:40) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Boxed In (2:55) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS Video - NatureWorks - Adaptation (Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle) (14:45) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - Saving a Species: Sea Turtles (30:08) - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Turtle Research (5:04) - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS Learningmedia - DragonflyTV - Sea Turtles (7:32) - VIEW
• Grades 4-10 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle (5:25) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Untamed - Turtles (26:46) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How the Turtle Got Its Shell (8:29) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale (53:13) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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