Mail and Aldous Huxley - July 26
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Sunday, July 26, 2026
Today is Aunts and Uncles Day, National Coffee Milkshake Day, and World Tofu Day.
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1739 – Birthday of Vice President George Clinton
1775 – Benjamin Franklin named Postmaster General
1788 – New York ratifies the Constitution
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: Mail and Aldous Huxley
ON THIS DATE
- 1775 - The Second Continental Congress establishes the first post office and names Benjamin Franklin Postmaster General.
- 1948 - President Truman signs Executive Order 9981, desegregating the U.S. military.
- 1990 - President George H.W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- 2016 - Hillary Clinton becomes the first woman selected as the presidential candidate of a major party.
- 1856 - Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw
- 1875 - Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung
- 1894 - English writer Aldous Huxley
- 1923 - Author and illustrator Jan Berenstain
- 1943 - Musician Mick Jagger
- 1945 - Actor Helen Mirren
- 1956 - Figure skater Dorothy Hamill
- 1964 - Actor Sandra Bullock
- The Marvelettes - Please Mister Postman - LISTEN
- Elvis Presley - Return to Sender - LISTEN
- Wilco - Box Full of Letters - LISTEN
- Fats Waller - I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter - LISTEN
- Rolling Stones - Start Me Up - LISTEN
- Jeffery Harrison - Mailboxes in Late Winter
NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
Hagerman Fossil Beds, Idaho - GO
ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY
PBS Food - Mocha Meringue with Expresso Ice - DO
- Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Mailman in Appalachia (2:15) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - M is for Mail (0:16) - VIEW
- Grades K-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Post Office Field Trip (7:14) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-3 - NHPBS Learning Media- Blossom and Snappy Go to the Post Office (26:41) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Arthur - Post Office Activity - DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - John Held Jr.: Mail Art (9:06) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - KQED Art School - Mail Art with David Wilson (5:06) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Teaching with Primary Sources - The Pony Express - READ and DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Japanese 233 - At the Post Office (26:43) - VIEW, READ, DO
THEME: ALDOUS HUXLEY
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