Basketball and Jessie Owens - August 3
Nothing But Net Learning
Monday, August 3, 2026
Today is Assistance Dog Day, National Watermelon Day, Grab Some Nuts Day, and Clean Your Floors Day.
- Health and Wellness Month Resource of the Day: KidVision: Doctor's Office
- Sandwich Month Sandwich of the Day: Reuben Sandwich
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1755 – Birthday of New Hampshire soldier and Founding Father, Nicholas Gilman, Jr.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poems of the Day
Art of the Day
Today's Theme: BASKETBALL AND JESSE OWENS
ON THIS DATE
- 1852 - Harvard University wins a boat race with Yale University in the first American intercollegiate athletic event. The race was held on Lake Winnipesaukee.
- 1936 - Jesse Owens wins the 100-meter dash at the Berlin Olympics.
- 1949 - The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League merge and become the National Basketball Association.
- 1900 - Soldier and journalist Ernie Pyle
- 1900- Teacher John T. Scopes
- 1920 - Author P. D. James
- 1926 - Singer Tony Bennett
- 1940 - Actor Martin Sheen
- 1941 - Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart
- 1977 - Football player Tom Brady
- Louis Armstrong - Sweet Georgia Brown - LISTEN
- Tony Bennet - I Left My Heart in San Francisco - LISTEN
- Jesse Lott - Basketball Players (1987)
- Grades PreK-K - NHPBS LearningMedia - KidVision - Basketball (8:57) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo Will Make His Shot (2:41) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - What If? The Greatest Basketball Shot Ever (1:25) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Practicing Basketball (1:51) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Rebecca Lobo and the Letter O (1:52) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - Let's Go Luna - A Game of Basketball (1:26) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - Molly of Denali - Playing Basketball on Snow (2:32) - VIEW
- Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Basketball Physics (5:38) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 4-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 - Basketball in Space (2:00) - VIEW
THEME: JESSE OWENS
- Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Know Ohio - Olympic Runner Jesse Owens "the Buckeye Bullet" (1:53) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience -Jesse Owens: A Hero's Welcome? (1:35) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Jesse Owens: The Track as a Great Equalizer (2:20) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Jesse Owens, Chapter One (10:28) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Jesse Owens in Hitler's Germany (2:07) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - U.S. Holocaust Museum - Lesson Plan: Black Americans and the Nazi Olympics - DO
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