Seneca Falls Convention and Ice Cream - July 19

Sunday, July 19, 2026

Today is Anne Hutchinson Memorial Day, Stick Out Your Tongue Day, National Ice Cream Day, Sundae Sunday, and National Raspberry Cake Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day
National Park Month Resource of the Day
Ice Cream Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Seneca Falls Convention

 AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE

1739 – Birthday of Revolutionary War officer, Joseph Stanton, Jr.

ON THIS DATE

• 64 AD - The Great Fire of Rome begins. It lasts for six days, destroying half the city.
• 1848 - A women's rights convention convenes in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
• 1903 - Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
• 2005 - President George W. Bush announces he has selected John Roberts to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1817 - Civil War nurse and veterans advocate Mary Ann Bickerdyke 
• 1834 - French artist Edgar Degas
• 1860 - Accused murderer Lizzie Borden
• 1875 - Poet and activist Alice Dunbar Nelson
• 1922 - Politician and presidential candidate George McGovern
• 1947 - English musician, Queen guitarist, and astrophysicist Brian May
• 1976 - English actor Benedict Cumberbatch

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Helen Reddy - I Am Woman - LISTEN
• Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - LISTEN
• Beyonce - Run the World (Girls) - LISTEN
• Brian May - Love of My Life  - LISTEN
• Queen - We Will Rock You - LISTEN
  
• "Weird Al" Yankovic - I Love Rocky Road -LISTEN
• Louis Prima - Banana Split for My Baby - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 

• Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson - To Madame Curie

NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Women's Rights National Park, New York - GO

ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Dragonfly TV - Dairy Scientist - VIEW

THEME: SENECA FALLS CONVENTION

• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Unstoppable: The Road to Women's Rights - Seneca Falls, NY (6:10) - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Seneca Falls Convention: The Suffrage Movement Begins (2:51) - Carrie Chapman Catt - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Vote - Seneca Falls Convention (4:15) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Not For Ourselves Alone - Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention (10:16) -  VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Not For Ourselves Alone - Declaration of Sentiments: Close Reading Activity -  READ and DO
• Grades 8-12 - Library of Congress - Seneca Falls Convention - READ
• Grades 9-12 - C-SPAN - Lesson Plan: The Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments (5:16) - VIEW, READ, DO

THEME: Ice Cream

• Grades PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia - Ice Cream Parlour Fieldtrip (7:15)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1  - Sesame Street - Ernie's Ice Cream Cone (3:05) -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Let's Learn - Homemade Ice Cream (12:59) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Let's Learn - Making Non-Dairy Ice Cream (10:52) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - Arthur - An Ice Cream Experiment (1:46) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-5 - PBS LearningMedia - 60 Second Science - Making Ice Cream (1:06) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Martha Speaks - Operation Ice Cream - VIEW
• Grades 3-6 - NHPBS Video - DIY Science Time - Thermal Energy (23:39) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Delishtory - We All Scream for Ice Cream (5:30) - VIEW

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