Oceans - June 8

Saturday, June 8, 2024

Today is the Belmont Stakes, Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day, World Oceans Day, Ghostbusters Day, and Best Friends Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Oceans
Watch

ON THIS DATE

• 1789 - James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution.
• 1861 - Tennessee secedes from the Union.
• 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law.
• 1949 - George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
• 1953 - The Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
• 1992 - The first World Oceans Day is celebrated.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1625 - Italian mathematician and astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini
• 1810 - German composer Robert Schumann
• 1858 - English mathematician Charlotte Scott
• 1867 - Architect Frank Lloyd Wright
• 1868 - Architect Robert Robinson Taylor
• 1925 - First Lady Barbara Bush
• 1927 - Actor Jerry Stiller
• 1933 - Comedian Joan Rivers
• 1947 - Author Sara Paretsky
• 1955 - English computer scientist and inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Robert Shumann - Traumerei - LISTEN
• Billie Eilish - Ocean Eyes - LISTEN
• Diana Krall - How Deep is the Ocean - LISTEN
• The Beatles - Yellow Submarine - LISTEN
• David Bowie - 1984 - LISTEN
• Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - LISTEN
• Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters - LISTEN

THEME: Oceans

• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - All Around the Ocen Song (1:35) -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Love the Ocean Song (3:21)  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Ocean Emotion (1:59) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3  - Splash and Bubble Series Web Site  - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Ocean Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 1-3 - NHPBS Learning Media - Wild Kratts - Ocean Clips - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - NHPBS Learning Media - Johnathan Bird's Blue World Collection - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS Video - NatureWorks - Marine Communities (14:46) - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Ocean Engineer (2:42) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Is It OK to Pee in the Ocean? (2:19) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - EONS - How Ancient Whales May Have Changed the Deep Ocean (10:05) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - How Ocean Currents Work and How We Are Breaking Them (12:38) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Reef Rescue (53:21) - VIEW

WATCH

NH WORLD - 11.3 More Options

DISCO: SOUNDTRACK OF A REVOLUTION - Rock the Boat
Saturday, 6/08 from 6:30-7:45 pm NH WORLD
Explore the origin of a global music phenomenon born among gay and black communities coming together in apartments and basement bars in 1970s New York, where dancefloors became a platform in their battle for visibility and inclusion.

DISCO: SOUNDTRACK OF A REVOLUTION - Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now 
Saturday, 6/08 from 7:45-9 pm NH WORLD
Experience the pinnacle of disco culture during the 1970s, set against the backdrop of black power and sexual liberation. As disco conquers the mainstream, Black women and gay men rise as superstars and icons.

DISCO: SOUNDTRACK OF A REVOLUTION - Stayin' Alive
Saturday, 6/08 from 9-10 pm NH WORLD
Disco seemed untouchable by the end of the 1970s, but an incited violent backlash led to its demise. Dive into disco's underground return, where it laid the foundations for all future electronic dance music.

Pressroom Contact

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