Movies - June 6

Friday, June 6, 2025

Today is D-Day, National Drive-In Movie Day, National Yoyo Day, Higher Education Day, Donut Day, and Russian Language Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Ocean/River Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme:  Movies

ON THIS DATE

• 1844 - The YMCA is founded in London.
• 1889 - The Great Seattle Fire destroys downtown Seattle.
• 1933 - The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey.
• 1944 - The D-Day invasion of Normandy begins when Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy, France.
• 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.  

BIRTHDAYS

• 1755 - Revolutionary War soldier and spy Nathan Hale
• 1756 - Painter and architect John Trumbull
• 1799 - Russian author and poet Alexander Pushkin
• 1925 - Poet and NH resident Maxine Kumin
• 1944 - Sprinter Tommie Smith
• 1956 - Swedish tennis player Björn Borg

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Village People - YMCA - LISTEN
• The Drifters - Saturday Night at the Movies - LISTEN
• The Kinks - Groovy Movies - LISTEN

OCEAN/RIVER MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Kratts Creatures - The Tiger Shark - VIEW

THEME: Movies

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Grover at the Movies (1:43)  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Movie and TV Show Parodies - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Learning Media -  Frontline - Generation Like - Promoting Movies (5:59) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl - Is This Really 3D? (5:02) - VIEW 
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course: Artificial Intelligence - Make a Movie Recommendation System (14:33) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Origins of Everything - How a Spy Changed Horror Movies (10:52) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Origins of Everything - Why Do We Eat Popcorn at the Movies? (6:46) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Lit - When the Book is Better than the Movie (5:28) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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