Louis Armstrong and Anne Frank - August 4

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Today is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, National White Wine Day, Single Working Woman's Day, and US Coast Guard Birthday.

• 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
Poem of the Day
Art 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

POEMS OF THE DAY 

• Andrew  Motion - Anne Frank Huis 
• Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias

• Percy Bysshe Shelley - To a Skylark

ART OF THE DAY 

• Arthur Dove - Swing Music (Louis Armstrong (1938)

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 3-12 - 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 - 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 K-4 - TEDEd - "I Am Anne Frank" read by Brad Meltzer and Saul Dreier (13:18)  - VIEW. READ, DO
• Grades 5-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Character Change: The Diary of Anne Frank - Inspiring Middle School Literacy - DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece Theater Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Dialogue - Honoring Anne Frank (28:54) - VIEW
  
• Grades 5-12 - Midwest Center for Holocaust Education - Resources for Teaching the Diary of Anne Frank - DO
• Grades 7-12 - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Exploring Anne Frank's Diary (11:27)   - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Anne Frank Remembered (28:52) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - Remembering Anne Frank (51:55) - VIEW

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