Iguanas and Star Trek - September 8
Day of the Iguana Learning
Monday, September 8, 2025
Today is Literacy Day, Actors Day, Ampersand Day, Iguana Awaeness Day, Date Nut Bread Day, and Star Trek Day.
- Daily Hispanic Heritage Month Resource of the Day: The Hispanic Heritage Awards: Bad Bunny
- Classical Music Month Resource of the Day: Classical Rewind
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1781 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, the war's last significant battle in the Southern theater, ends in a narrow British tactical victory.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Iguanas and Star Trek
ON THIS DATE
- 1504 - Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence
- 1565 - A Spanish expedition establishes the first permanent European settlement in what is now the U.S. at St. Augustine, Florida.
- 1664 - The Dutch surrender New Amsterdam to the British, who rename it New York.
- 1900 - Galveston, Texas is struck by a hurricane that kills 6,000.
- 1966 - Beam me up Scottie - the TV series "Star Trek" premieres on NBC.
- 1974 - President Ford pardons President Nixon.
- 1849 - Composer Antonín Dvorák
- 1863 - English writer W.W. Jacobs, best known for his short story, "The Monkey's Paw."
- 1868 - Mandolin player and composer Seth Weeks
- 1897 - Singer-songwriter Jimmie Rodgers
- 1922 - Actor and comedian Sid Caesar
- 1924 - Writer and Manchester, NH native Grace Metalious
- 1927 - Actor Peter Sellers
- 1932 - Musician Patsy Cline
- 1940 - Poet Jack Prelutsky
- 1941 - Politician Bernie Sanders
- 1954 - Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges
- 1979 - Singer-songwriter Pink
- Antonín Dvorák - Seranade for Strings in E Major- LISTEN
- Seth Weeks - Polka Caprice - LISTEN
- Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel No. 1 - LISTEN
- Patsy Cline - Crazy - LISTEN
- Pink - Me & Bobby McGee - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Iguana - Elmo the Musical (7:24) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Pet Show and Tell: Iguana (1:13) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-2 - Cat in the Hat - Ignacio the Iguana (1:50) - VIEW
- Grades 1-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Flight of the Draco Collection - VIEW and DO
- Grades 2-5 - San Diego Zoo - Iguana - READ and LISTEN
- Grades 3-12 - National Zoo - Grand Cayman Blue Iguana - READ
- Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Math Mess - Clash of the Iguanas: Calculating Rates of Change (1:06) -VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Big Pacific - Galapagos Marine Iguanas (3:28) - VIEW
THEME: STAR TREK
- GradesPreK-1 - Sesame Street - Spaceship Surprise Next Generation (3:36) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Make It So Number One! (2:07) - VIEW
- Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 - Star Trek at 50 - Science Fiction of Science Fact (28:30) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Shanks FX - Strat Trek Transporter Effect (2:37) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS NewsHour - Star Trek - VIEW and READ
- Grades 6-12- Pioneers of Television - How Well Do You Know Star Trek Quiz - DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Star Trek Script and Treatment c. 1964 (3:57) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Metrofocus - Star Trek Realities at NYU (5:07) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Nichelle Nichols, Actress and NASA Recruiter (3:56) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Religion and Ethics Newsweekly - Spock, Spirituality, and Star Trek (6:31) -VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Spacetime -Is The Alcubierre Warp Drive Possible? (7:21) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Remembering Leonard Nimoy (58:13) - VIEW
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