Lobsters and Sandra Day O'Connor- September 25

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Today is National Lobster Day, Daughter’s Day, Math Story Telling Day, One-Hit Wonder Day, Quesadilla Day, and Food Service Workers Day.

• Hispanic/Latino Resource of the Day: Latino Americanos
• Classical Music Resource of the Day?: 2015 Seattle Rock Orchestra Summer Intensive

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  LOBSTERS AND SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR
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ON THIS DATE

• 1237 - The signing of the Treaty of York establishes the border between England and Scotland.
• 1775 - Ethan Allen is captured by the British after an attack on Montreal.
• 1789 - The U.S. Congress passes 12 amendments to the Constitution and sends them to the states for ratification. The 10 that were ratified by the states became the Bill of Rights.
• 1957 - With the support of federal troops, nine Black students are admitted to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
• 1974 - Dr. Frank Jobe performs the first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery, more commonly known as Tommy John surgery, on - wait for it - pitcher Tommy John.
• 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1897 - Author William Faulkner
• 1903 - Artist Mark Rothko
• 1906 - Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich
• 1929 - Journalist Barbara Walters
• 1930 - Poet and illustrator Shel Silverstein
• 1944 - Actor Michael Douglas
• 1968 - Actor and rapper Will Smith (Sesame Street Fresh Prince Parody)
• 1969  - Actor Catherine Zeta-Jones
• 1983 - Actor, writer, and singer Donald Glover

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• B-52s - Rock Lobster - LISTEN
  
  ONE HIT WONDERS
• A-ha - Take Me On - LISTEN
• Dexie's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen - LISTEN
• In a Big Country - Big Country - LISTEN

THEME: LOBSTERS

• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - How to Activate Your Lobster Creature Powers (8:08) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Swimming with the Lobster (2:06) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior -The Secret Life of Lobsters (7:20) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS - Wildlife Journal Junior - Northern Lobster - READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Be Smart - You Are an Upside-Down Lobster (4:13) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video  - Conversations with the Lobster Lady (29:55) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - How Rising Water Temperatures Could End Maine's Lobster Boom (8:34) - VIEW

THEME: SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR

• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Sandra Day O'Connor Explores Supreme Court History (8:26) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Constitution USA with Peter Sagal - Framework with Sandra Day O'Connor (2:39) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - To the Contrary - Cokie Roberts Interviews Sandra Day O'Connor (8:42) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Not Done: Women Make America - Sandra Day O'Connor (4:31) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - How Politics and Personality Propelled the First Female Justice to the Supreme Court -VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Sandra Day O'Connor: The First (1:51:41) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Sandra Day O'Connor: The First: Chapter One  (9:24) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Dialogue - Sandra Day O'Connor (28:47) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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