Mammals - August 5

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Today is Green Peppers Day, International Traffic Light Day, National Oyster Day, and National Underwear Day.

• Health and Wellness Month Resource of the Day:  PBS Parents: Healthy Me
• Sandwich Month Sandwich of the Day: Open-Faced Grilled Cheese with Apple and Bacon Sandwich

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: MAMMALS

ON THIS DATE

• 1620 - The Mayflower sets sail from Southampton, England.
• 1733 - New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel.
• 1861 - The U.S. levies the first national income tax to help pay for the Civil War.
• 1914 - The first electric traffic light is installed in Cleveland, Ohio.
• 1962 - Apartheid leader Nelson Mandela is jailed.
• 1981 - President Reagan fires 11,359 striking air traffic controllers.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1850 - French author Guy de Maupassant
• 1906 - Director John Huston
• 1930 - Astronaut Neil Armstrong

SONG OF THE DAY 

• They Might Be Giants - Mammal - LISTEN
  
• Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - Tears of a Clown - LISTEN
• The Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown - LISTEN
• Send in the Clowns - Judy Collins - LISTEN
• Everybody Loves a Clown - Gary Lewis and the Playboys - LISTEN

THEME: MAMMALS

• Grades K-4 - NHPBS - Up Close and Natural - Mammals (12:39) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12- NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Mammals Get Their Chance (1:46) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Rise of the Mammals (53:27) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Smithsonian Science Now - How to Discover a New Mammal Species (29:14) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Are Mammals Adapting to Humans? (4:22) - VIEW
• Grade 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NOVA scienceNOW: Smart Marine Mammals - Smart Sea Lions  (4:42) - VIEW, READ, DO

Pressroom Contact

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