Louis Armstrong and Anne Frank - August 4

Monday, August 4, 2025

Today is Coast Guard Day, Single Working Women's Day, National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, National Doll Day, National Sisters Day, Assistance Dog Day, White Wine Day, and Psychic Day (but you knew that.)

• Health and Wellness Month Resource of the Day:  Environmental Public Health Collection
  
• Sandwich Month Sandwich of the Day: Grilled Cheese Sandwich with Mango Chutney

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Louis Armstrong and Ann Frank

ON THIS DATE

• 1693 - Cheers, Benedictine monk Dom Perignon created champagne.
• 1790 - The forerunner of the Coast Guard, the Revenue Cutter Service, is created.
• 1944 - The Gestapo finds and arrests Anne Frank, her family, and four others in Amsterdam.
• 1964 - U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy falsely report they came under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam.
• 1987 - The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1732 - English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 1821 - French Fashion designer Louis Vuitton
• 1834 - English mathematician John Venn
• 1901 - Musician Louis Armstrong
• 1920 - Journalist Helen Thomas
• 1961 - President Barack Obama
• 1962 - Baseball player Roger Clemens
• 1983 - Actress and filmmaker Greta Gerwig

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World - LISTEN

THEME: LOUIS ARMSTRONG

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - John Legend and Hoots (3:00) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - It Takes A Street Song with Hoots (2:39) - VIEW
• Grades 3-6 - PBS Kids - Jazz - Jazz Greats: Louis Armstrong - READ
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Music Arts Toolkit - Introduction  to Jazz - What a Wonderful World (8:05) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - National Museum of American History - Louis Armstrong Education Kit - READ, LISTEN, DO, WOW
• Grades 6-12 - Teach Rock - Louis Armstrong - DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Ken Burns' Jazz - Louis Armstrong Returns to Europe (2:12) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Jazz Ambassadors - Louis Armstrong and the Civil Rights Movement (5:37) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Louis Armstrong Archive Brings His Influence Into a New Era (11:28) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - One-On-One - 50 Years of Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" (8:18) - VIEW
  
• Grades 7-12 - American Masters - Louis Armstrong - READ
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Blank on Blank - Louis Armstrong on His Chops (4:56) - VIEW
• Professional Development - National Federation of State High School Associations - “Seriously Satchmo” - The Importance of Teaching Louis Armstrong in the Music Classroom - READ

THEME: ANNE FRANK

• Grades 5-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Character Change: The Diary of Anne Frank - Inspiring Middle School Literacy - DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Dialogue - Honoring Anne Frank (28:54) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Anne Frank Remembered (28:52) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece - The Diary of Anne Frank 1: A Difficult Situation (1:21) - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece -The Diary of Anne Frank 2: Anne's Birthday (1:32) - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece -The Diary of Anne Frank 3: The Suffering of Millions (1:53) - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece -The Diary of Anne Frank - Life in Hiding Media Gallery - READ, VIEW, DO

Pressroom Contact

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