Loretta Lynn - October 5

Saturday, October 5, 2024

Today is Global James Bond Day, National Storytelling Day, World Teacher's Day, Get Funky Day, World Card-Making Day, and Cephalopod Day.

World Animal Month Animal Cam of the Day:  Smithsonian National Zoo Lion Cam
Dessert Month Desert of the Day: Button Cup Tarts with Homemade Almond Milk
LGBT History Month Resource of the Day:  American Experience: Milestones in the American Gay Rights Movement

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  

ON THIS DATE

• 1789 - The Women's March on Versailles effectively ends royal authority.
• 1938 - Jewish passports are invalidated in Nazi Germany.
• 1943 - Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by the Japanese on Wake Island.
• 1947 - President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
• 1962 - The first James Bond theatrical feature, "Dr. No" starring Sean Connery as Agent 007, premiered in London.
  
• 1969 - "Monty Python's Flying Circus" debuts on BBC Television

BIRTHDAYS

• 1709 - Revivalist preacher Jonathan Edwards
• 1817 - British author and herpetologist Catherine Cooper Hopley
• 1829 - 21st President  Chester A. Arthur
• 1922 - Cartoonist Bil Keane
• 1928 - Harriet the Spy author Louise Fitzhugh
• 1936 - Czech poet, playwright, and 1st president of the Czech Republic Václav Havel
• 1943 - Singer-songwriter Steve Miller
• 1958 - Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson
• 1959- Architect Maya Lin

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle - LISTEN
  
• Loretta Lynn - Ain't No Time To Go  - LISTEN

THEME: LORETTA LYNN

• Grades: PreK-12 - Sesame Street - Loretta Lynn and the Count Sing Count On Me (3:48)  - VIEW
  
• Grades: 5-12 -  NHPBS LearningMedia - Ken Burns In the Classroom - Country Music - Writing the Truth: Loretta Lynn's Coal Miner's Daughter - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty (2:59) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Austin City Limits Hall of Fame 2015  - Loretta Lynn  (3:50) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Austin City Limits Hall of Fame 2015  - Patty Loveless: Coal Miner's Daughter  (3:13) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Austin City Limits Hall of Fame 2015  - Vince Gill and Patty Loveless:  "After the Fire is Gone"  (3:16) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Austin City Limits - Loretta Lynn: "Coal Miner's Daughter"  (3:13) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Loretta Lynn's First Birthday Party at 87 (8:44) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - Loretta Lynn: Still a Country Girl (1:53:14) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - Loretta Lynn: Lyricist and Songwriter (2:33) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - Loretta Lynn's Gowns (1:58) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - Why Loretta Lynn Wrote "You Ain't Woman Enough" (1;14) - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - Loretta Lynn Wrote for Women - Her Song "The Pill" (2:15) - VIEWLike It Like That Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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