Golf, Sputnik, and Calendars - October 4
Learning Potpourri
Saturday, October 4, 2025
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
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1777 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Beis Heights near Saratoga, New York begins.
On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Golf, Sputnik, and Calendars
- 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.
- 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
- Neil Sedaka - Calendar Girl - LISTEN
- Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle - LISTEN
Bing Crosby - Straight Down The Middle - LISTEN
- 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
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