Golf, Sputnik, and Calendars - October 4

Friday, October 4, 2024

Today is National Taco Day, National Vodka Day, World Animal Day, Dick Tracy Day, Kids Music Day, National Diversity Day, National Golf Day, Ship in a Bottle Day, World Smile Day, and World Pet Day.

World Animal Month Animal Cam of the Day:  San Diego Zoo Platypus Cam
Dessert Month Dessert of the Day: Chocolate Tacos Filled with Hazelnut-Chocolate Mousse
LGBT History Month Resource of the Day: The LGBTQ Movement and Stonewall Uprising

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Golf, Sputnik, and Calendars

ON THIS DATE

• 1584 - Pope Gregory XII introduces the Gregorian Calendar.
• 1853 -  The Crimean War begins when the  Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
• 1895 - The first U.S. Open golf tournament is held in Newport, RI.
• 1931 - The comic strip Dick Tracy makes its debut.
• 1957 -  The Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1822 - 19th President Rutherford B. Hayes
• 1861 - Artist Frederic Remington 
• 1884 - Author Damon Runyon
• 1895 -  Silent film actor Buster Keaton
• 1923 - Actor Charlton Heston
• 1928 - Author and futurist Alvin Toffler
• 1946 - Actor Susan Sarandon

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Neil Sedaka -  Calendar Girl - LISTEN
• Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle - LISTEN
• Bing Crosby - Straight Down The Middle - LISTEN
  

THEME: GOLF

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Mini-Golf Course Track  (1:05) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS Video - KidVision Pre-K Miniature Golf Field Trip (8:47) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! - Mini-Golf at the DSA (11:25)  - VIEW
  
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Wild Metropolis - Alligators Find New Territories on Golf Courses (1:03) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Greening the Golf Course (5:39) -  VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - In Arizona, More Navajo Take to the Dirt for 'Rez Golf' (3:58) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Roadtrip - Big Man On Campus (26:46) - VIEW 
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Basic Black - Diversity in Golf (26:46)  - VIEW
• Grades 9-8 - NHPBS Video - Growing a Greener Golf Course (26:45) - VIEW 

THEME:  SPUTNIK

• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience: Chasing the Moon - Sputnik’s Launch Begins the Space Race (5:55)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NASA - Sputnik and the Dawn of the Space Age - READ and LISTEN

THEME:  CALENDARS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Kermit's Weather Calendar (5:14)  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 -  Shalom Sesame -The Hebrew Calendar (3:52) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - KidVision - Chinese New Year (8:54) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature Cat -Here Comes the Sun (11:50) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Calendar in Ice: Ice Core Samples (Available in Spanish) (5:06) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Native America: Cities in the Sky - The Sun Ceremonies of Teotihuacan (7:57) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - How Science Defines a Year (4:55)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Native America - Cahokia’s Celestial Calendar (Woodhenge) (2:13) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 -  Nova - Amazing Calendar Trick - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - It's Okay to Be Smart - Why Seasons Make No Sense (3:01) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Irasshai - Japanese 148 - Days of the Week (26:46) - VIEW and DO
  
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Irasshai - Japanese 149 - Days and Dates (26:47) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - Calendars in Medieval Life and Literature Lecture (51:44) - VIEW
• Grades 11-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  PBS Space Time -The Calendar, Australia & White Christmas (5:48) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 11-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS Space Time - The Leap Second Explained (2:20) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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