Loretta Lynn - October 5

Sunday, October 5, 2025

World Teachers Day, Global James Bond Day, Storytelling Day, Get Funky Day, and National Pickle 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

 AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE

James Iredell was born on this date in 1751. In 1775, Iredell wrote the essay Principles of an American Whig, which laid out some of the same themes as the Declaration of Independence. In 1790, George Washington nominated him to serve on the first Supreme Court

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
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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) - VIEW

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