Cats, Beijing, and Richard Nixon - August 8

Friday, August 8, 2025

Today is International Cat Day, National Zucchini Day, Scottish Wildcat Day, National Frozen Custard Day, Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor's Porch Night, U.S. Dollar Day, Kool-Aid Day, and Wear Your Mother's Jewelry Day.

• Health and Wellness Month Resource of the Day: Sesame Street - Healthy Living Printables
• Sandwich Month Sandwich of the Day: Grilled Veggie Sandwich (with Zucchini)

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Cats, Beijing, and Richard Nixon
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ON THIS DATE

• 1963 - Thieves make off with 2.6 million pounds from a stopped train outside of London in what is now known as the "Great Train Robbery."  
• 1974 - President Nixon announces his resignation in a nationally televised address.
• 2008 -The Summer Olympic Games open in Beijing.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1814 - Lawyer and first female Justice of the Peace in the U.S., Esther Hobart Morris
• 1896 - Author Marjorie Rawlings
• 1921 - Swimmer and actor Esther Williams
• 1937 - Actor Dustin Hoffman

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Stray Cats  - Stray Cat Strut - LISTEN
  
• Jane's Addiction - My Cat's Name is  Maceo - LISTEN
• The Aristocats - Everybody Wants to Be a Cat - LISTEN
• Al Stewart - Year of the Cat - LISTEN
• Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman - LISTEN
• Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat - LISTEN

THEME: CATS 

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - C is for Counting Cats (1:28) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Peep in the Big Wide World - Cat Categories (1:28) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Peep in the Big Wide World - That's a Cat (8:50) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Simon's Cat and Elmo Take a Nap! (2:55) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Peg + Cat - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5- NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cat Adaptations - Agility (3:58) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cat Adaptations - Super Senses (4:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cats (8:28) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - PBS Learning Media - Untamed - The Case for Indoor Cats (26:46) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cats - Yesterday and Today (6:54) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Animal Adaptations - Fishing Cat (4:18) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Super Cats: Episode 1 - Extreme Lives (53:28) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Super Cats: Episode 2 - Cats in Every Corner 
• (53:29) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Super Cats: Episode 3 - Science and Secrets (53:28) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Cat Tales (53:21) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How We Domesticated Cats (Twice) (7:47) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats (7:31) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Windows to the Wild - Rico The Hiking Cat (26:45) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Film School Shorts - Trash Cat (2:06) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video -  Monstrum - The Wicked Feline Murder Floof, a Yule Cat Story (9:50) -VIEW

THEME: BEIJING 

• Grades PreK-2 - Let's Go Luna! - She is the Moon of Moons -  Beats of Beijing (25:15) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Let's Go Luna! - Ping Pong Match (2:27) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Let's Go Luna! - China Loves You (1:18) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Let's Go Luna! - The Drums and Bells of China (1:41) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Let's Go Luna! - China General Store (2:57) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Let's Go Luna! - Chinese Drum Performance (2:43) - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Let's Go Luna - Learn about Beijing, China - 5 Clips - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Beijing Opera Dance (3:39) - VIEW and READ

THEME: RICHARD NIXON

• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - 60-Second Presidents - Richard Nixon (1:15) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - The Nixon Library - READ
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Nixon - Nixon's Gamble (2:46) - VIEW 
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Vietnam War - The 1968 Presidential Campaign (6:44) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Vietnam War - Nixon - The Silent Majority (1:33) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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