Whale Sharks - August 30
Big Fish Learning
Sunday, August 30, 2026
Today is Pony Express Day, International Cabernet Sauvignon Day, International Whale Shark Day, National Beach Day, National Grief Awareness Day, Frankenstein Day, National Toasted Marshmallow Day, and Slinky Day.
- Health and Wellness Month Resource of the Day: Environmental Public Health Collection
- Sandwich Month Sandwich of the Day: Scrambled Egg Salad Sandwich
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day
Art of the Day
Today's Theme: Whale Sharks
ON THIS DATE
- 1963 - A hotline communication link is established between the White House and the Kremlin.
- 1965 - Bob Dylan's album Highway 61 Revisited is released.
- 1967 - The U.S. Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
- 1983 - Guion S. Bluford Jr. becomes the first African-American astronaut to travel in space.
- 1748 - French artist Jacques-Louis David
- 1797 - Author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- 1871 - English Physicist Ernest Rutherford
- 1893 - Politician Huey P. Long
- 1918 - Red Sox great Ted Williams
- Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife - LISTEN
- Jimmy Buffett - Fins - LISTEN
- Dickie Goodman - Mr. Jaws - LISTEN
- Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone - LISTEN
- Beach Boys - Surfin' Safari - LISTEN
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Stanzas ["Oh, come to me in dreams, my love!"]
Jacques Louis David - The Death of Socrates (1787)
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS NatureWorks- Rhincodontidae - Whale Sharks - READ
- Grades 4-12 - NOAA & the Octonauts Podcast - Whale Sharks - LISTEN and READ
- Grades 4-12 - Nature - Whale Shark Fact Sheet (2:17) - VIEW and READ
- Grades 4-12 - World Wildlife Federation - Whale Sharks - READ and VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - Georgia Aquarium - Whale Shark - READ and VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Changing Seas - The Biggest Fish in the Sea (26:54) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - Florida Museum of Natural History - Whale Shark - READ
- Grades 5-12- NHPBS Video - Changing Seas - Biggest Fish in the Sea (26:53) - VIEW
- Grades 5-12 - Nova - The Secret Lives of Whale Sharks - READ
- Grades 6-12- PBS LearningMedia - Kip Evans - Whale Sharks (3:15) - VIEW
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