Juneteenth and Baseball - June 19

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Today is Juneteenth, National Watch Day, World Sickle Cell Day, Garfield the Cat Day, Dry Martini Day, Pets in Film Day, and Eat an Oreo Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Ocean/River Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme:  Juneteenth and Baseball

ON THIS DATE

• 325  - The Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea.
• 1846 - The first reported baseball game is played on Hoboken's Elysian Fields. The New York Nine defeated the Knickerbockers.
• 1862 -  U.S. Congress abolishes slavery in U.S. territories.
• 1865 - More than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, slaves in Texas are finally informed of their freedom. The day is now celebrated as Juneteenth.
• 1910 - The first Father's Day is celebrated
• 1917 - King George V changes the British royal family's surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.
  1953 - Convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed.
• 1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved by the Senate after a 54-day filibuster.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1897 - Comedian Moe Howard
• 1902 - Bandleader Guy Lombardo
• 1903 - Baseball player Lou Gehrig
• 1947 - Indian-English author Salman Rushdie
• 1950 - Singer-songwriter Ann Wilson
• 1954 - Actor Kathleen Turner
• 1962 - Singer-songwriter and dancer Paula Abdul
• 1964 - U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson
• 1978 - Actor Zoe Saldana

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Heart - Barracuda - LISTEN
• Paula Abdul - Opposites Attract- LISTEN
• Harry Chapin - Cat's in the Cradle - LISTEN

OCEAN/RIVER RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Nature - Soul of the Ocean - VIEW

THEME: JUNETEENTH

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Juneteenth Song (3:07) - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - Learning for Justice - Teaching Juneteenth - READ
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - All About the Holidays - Juneteenth (1:25) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Juneteenth Jamboree Celebrations (3:52) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - ReadWriteThink - Celebrate Juneteenth - READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Should Juneteenth Be a National Holiday? (5:11) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Juneteenth Jamboree - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS Newshour - What is Juneteenth? 4 Things You Should Know - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS Newshour - Lesson Plan: History of Juneteenth and Why It’s Set to Become a National Holiday - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - The African Americans - What is Juneteenth - READ
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Juneteenth Jamboree History (2:59) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - Blackademics - Juneteenth (3:33) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Basic Black - Juneteenth (26:46) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Black Journal - Juneteenth/The Tulsa Race Massacre (23:55) - VIEW

BASEBALL

• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Ernie Plays Baseball (2:22) -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Baseball School (1:53) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 Sesame Street - Knock Me Out at the Ball Game (4:35) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Respect is a Homerun - Yankees and Red Sox (1:47) - VIEW
• Grades 4-8 - NHPBS Learningmedia - Dragonfly TV - GPS: Baseball (7:59) -VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Women in Baseball (3:01) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Ken Burns' Baseball in the Classroom - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Physics of Baseball (7:37) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Ken Burns' Baseball - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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