Friends and Emily Bronte - July 30

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Today is International Day of Friendship, Cheesecake Day, Father-In-Law Day, Paperback Book Day, Chicken and Waffles Day, Share a Hug Day, World Snorkeling Day, and National Support Public Education 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: Friends and Emily Brontë

ON THIS DATE

• 1953 - President Eisenhower signs a joint resolution of Congress making In God We Trust the national motto.
• 1965 - President Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
• 1975 - Labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa disappears from a restaurant parking lot in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
• 2020 - The Mars rover Perseverance is launched.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1751 - Pianist Maria Anna Mozart
• 1818 - Novelist Emily Brontë
• 1863 - Businessman Henry Ford
• 1947 - Actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger
• 1956 - Lawyer and academic Anita Hill
• 1960 - Screenwriter and director Richard Linklater
• 1961 - Actor Laurence Fishburne

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights - LISTEN
• Carole King - You've Got a Friend - LISTEN
  
• Randy Newman - You've Got a Friend in Me (Toy Story) - LISTEN
• War - Why Can't We Be Friends - LISTEN
• The Beatles - With a Little Help from My Friends - LISTEN
• Queen - You're My Best Friend - LISTEN
• Bill Withers - Lean On Me - LISTEN

NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Florida - Biscayne National Park, Florida - GO

ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Bruces Banana Bourbon Ice Cream Recipe - VIEW

THEME: FRIENDS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Let's Be Friends (15:46) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo and Rosita Teach Friendship (2:44) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo's World - Friends (5:22) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Mister Rogers - When Friends Fight (28:29) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS Learning Media - Friendship: Daniel Tiger: Life's Little Lessons (12:16) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Peg + Cat - A World Made By Friends (3:30) - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Online "Friends" (2:12) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Unlikely Friends (6:14) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Friendship in the Animal Kingdom (6:53) - VIEW, READ, DO

THEME: EMILY BRONTE

• Grades 7-12 -  NHPBS LearningMedia - Breaking Barriers: To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters (1:38) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 -  NHPBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece - To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Sybil Robinson Presents: The Brontës(59:09) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Getting Inside the Mind of Emily Brontë Podcast (31:22)  - LISTEN
• Grades 7-12 - Poetry Foundation - Emily Brontë - READ

Pressroom Contact

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