John Paul Jones, Marc Chagall, Frida Khalo, and George W. Bush - July 6

Sunday, July 6, 2025

Today is Fried Chicken Day, Take Your Webmaster to Lunch Day, World Kissing Day, Build a Scarecrow Day, nd Air Traffic Controller 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: John Paul Jones, Marc Chagall, Frida Kahlo, and George W. Bush

ON THIS DATE

• 1777 -  British General John Burgoyne seizes Fort Ticonderoga in New York from American forces.
• 1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
• 1942 - Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in Amsterdam.
• 1944 -  Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of an Army bus and later faces a court-martial.
• 1944 - 168 people die and 700 are injured in a fire at an afternoon performance of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, CT.
• 1957 - Althea Gibson becomes the first black athlete to win a Wimbledon championship.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1747- Revolutionary War naval captain and short-term Portsmouth, NH resident John Paul Jones
• 1799 - Author Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill
• 1887 - Russian-French Artist Marc Chagall
• 1907 - Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo
• 1921 - First Lady Nancy Reagan
• 1925 - Singer-songwriter Bill Haley
• 1937 - Actor Ned Beatty
• 1946 - President George W. Bush
• 1946 - Actor Sylvester Stallone
• 1975 - Rapper 50 Cent
• 1979 - Comedian and actor  Kevin Hart

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Billy Halley and the Comets - Rock Around the Clock - LISTEN
• Styx - Come Sail Away -  LISTEN
• Blue Image - Ride Captain Ride - LISTEN
  
• Looking Glass - Brandy - LISTEN

NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Chirachhua National Park, Arizona - GO

ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Martha Speaks - Operation Ice Cream Game - DO

THEME: JOHN PAUL JONES

• Grades 1-5 - Liberty's Kids - Not Yet Begun to Fight (23:12) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - John Paul Jones House, Portsmouth, NH - READ 
• Grades 6-12 - U.S. Naval Academy - John Paul Jones -  READ
• Grades 6-12 - Naval History and Heritage Command - John Paul Jones - READ

THEME: MARC CHAGALL

• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - Marc Chagall (14:13) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - Marc Chagall - I and the Village (14:08) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - Marc Chagall - Russian Village (14:13) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - Marc Chagall - Sun on the Village (14:08) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - Marc Chagall - Paris Through the Window (14:24) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - Marc Chagall - Fish on a Vintage Poster (14:12) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12  - Guggenheim Museum - Marc Chagall Collection - VIEW and READ
• Grades 4-12 -  Art Institute of Chicago - March Chagall - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - ArtPlus - Marc Chagall (7:13) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - ArtWorks - Marc Chagall (26:48)  - VIEW

THEME: FRIDA KAHLO

• Grades 6-12 - Moma - Frida Kahlo - VIEW AND READ
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - How Kahlo's Signature Style Honored Her Heritage and Queerness (5:28) - VIEW
  
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video -  Becoming Frida Kahlo Series - VIEW

THEME: GEORGE W. BUSH

• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia 60-second Presidents (1:18) - VIEW, READ, and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - George W. Bush - READ
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience George W. Bush - Chapter One (10:00) - VIEWeo

Pressroom Contact

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