Japan and Hiroshima - August 6

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Today is Hiroshima Day, National Root Beer Float Day, Gossip Day, and Farmworker Appreciation Day.

• Health and Wellness Month Resource of the Day:  How to Talk to Your Child About Vaccines
• Sandwich Month Sandwich of the Day: Barbeque Pork Sandwich with Cabbage Slaw

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Japan and Hiroshima

ON THIS DATE

• 1926 - American swimmer Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
• 1945 - The Enola Gay drops the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, instantly killing over 70,000 people and causing the death of an additional 10,000 from radiation poisoning.
• 1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
• 1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.
• 1996 - The Ramones play their farewell concert at The Palace, Los Angeles.
• 2012 -  The Curiosity rover lands on Mars.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1809 - Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson
• 1848 - Susie Taylor, the first Black U.S. Army nurse
• 1881 - Scientist Sir Alexander Fleming 
• 1881 - Journalist Louella Parsons
• 1911 - Actor Lucille Ball
• 1928 - Artist Andy Warhol
• 1938 - Actor and Portsmouth, NH native Peter Bonerz
• 1970 - Director and screenwriter M. Night Shyamalan
• 1972 - English singer and actor Geri Halliwell

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Ramones - Rock and Roll High School  - LISTEN
  
• Spice Girls - Wannabe - LISTEN

THEME: JAPAN

• Grades PreK-2 - Let's Go Luna! - Luna the Sumo (1:45) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Let's Go Luna! - Time for Tea (1:37) - VIEW
• Grades K-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Around the Globe: Japan Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Zoom - Hana's Japanese Drums (2:47) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Bluegrass Music in Japan (7:25) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Evolution of Buddhism in Japan (3:07) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Japanese Culture - Bunraku (6:26) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Japanese Culture - What is Kabuki? (4:31)- VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Japanese Culture - Kabuki Actor's Technique (8:00) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Japanese Culture - Koto (3:15) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Japanese Culture - Scene from Macbeth: Kabuki Style (14:42) - VIEW, READ, DO

THEME: HIROSHIMA

• Grades 6-12 - PBS NewsHour Extra - Hiroshima Video and Lesson Plan - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Truman - Primary Resources: Announcing the Bombing of Hiroshima - READ
• Grade 9-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - American Experience -  Victory in the Pacific - Image: Propaganda Leaflet Dropped on Japan - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Truman on Ending a War: Atomic Bombs (2:48) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - Truman Library - Analyzing the Decision to Drop the Bomb Lesson - DO

Pressroom Contact

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