Lighthouses and the Gulf of Tonkin - August 7
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Thursday, August 7, 2025
Today is Lighthouse Day, Purple Heart Day, Raspberries and Cream Day, and Beach Party Day.
- Health and Wellness Month Resource of the Day: Arthur Family Health - Resilience
- Sandwich Month Sandwich the Day: Variations on a Peanut Butter Sandwich
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Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Lighthouses and the Gulf of Tonkin
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ON THIS DATE
- 1782 - George Washington institutes the precursor of the Purple Heart, the Badge of Military Merit, for soldiers wounded in battle.
- 1964 - Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, broadening President Johnson's war powers.
- 1742 - Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene
- 1813- Abolitionist and suffragist Paulina Kellogg Davis
- 1876 - World War I spy Mata Hari
- 1903 - Anthropologist Louis Leakey
- Grades PreK-1 - PBS Parents - Plastic Cup Lighthouse - DO
- Grades K-12 - US Lighthouse Society - Educational Materials and Resources - DO
- Grades 2-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Reading Rainbow - Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie (10:27) - VIEW and DO
- Grade 4 - National Park Service - Cape Lookout Lighthouse - Lighthouse Activities - DO
- Grades 2-12 - Lighthouse Friends - NH Lighthouses - READ
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Operation Lighthouse Rescue Clips - VIEW
- grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Operation Lighthouse Rescue (53:41) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS - Legendary Lighthouses - READ
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Love for a Lighthouse (11:22) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video - New York's Seaway Lighthouses (1:26:49) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - National Archives - Records of the U.S. Lighthouse Service - READ
THEME: GULF OF TONKIN
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience -1964: "The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution" (3:08) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Vietnam War -The USS Maddox is Attacked (3:10) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Vietnam War - President Johnson Responds (3:06) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Vietnam War-1964: "The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution" (5:35) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -The Vietnam War - The Gulf of Tonkin Incident Lesson Plan - VIEW, READ, DO
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