UFOs, Thurgood Marshall, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - July 2
Nothing Says Summer Like Learning!
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Today is World UFO Day, Lou Gehrig Day, I Forgot Day, Second Half of the Year Day, and Made in the USA Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
National Park Month Resource of the Day
Ice Cream Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: UFOs, Thurgood Marshall, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
ON THIS DATE
- 1776 - Continental Congress passes a resolution that the colonies " are and of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States."
- 1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean
- 1947 - An unidentified object crashes near Roswell, N.M.
- 1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans segregation in public places.
- 1877 - German author Hermann Hesse
- 1908 - Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall
- 1925 - Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers
- 1939 - Former NH Governor John H. Sununu
- 1947 - Actor and producer Larry David
Joni Mitchell - Amelia - LISTEN- Foo Fighters - My Hero - LISTEN
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - It Came Out of the Sky - LISTEN
- Styx - Come Sail Away - LISTEN
- David Bowie - Starman - LISTEN
NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
Great Smoky Mountains - VIEW
ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
Arthur - An Ice Cream Experiment - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Martian Radio (2:25) -VIEW
- Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Identifying Flying Objects (9:18) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Why the Latest UFO Report is a Turning Point on the Issue (7:57) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - UFOs Pose a National Security Risk, US Intel Report Says (5:17) - VIEW
THEME: THURGOOD MARSHALL
- Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - A More or Less Perfect Union - Brown vs. Board of Education (4:11) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 3-8 - Learning Cartoon Network - Thurgood Marshall (4:00) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Simple Justice - Marshall's Closing Statement (5:26) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Thurgood Marshall's Fight for Justice as a Young Lawyer (6:03) - VIEW
THEME: CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience -1964: "Passage of the Civil Rights Act" (3:22) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience -1964: "The Importance of the Civil Rights Act" (1:24) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - National Archives - Civil Rights Act (1964) and Resource Materials - READ
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