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“All the long August afternoon, the little drowsy stream whispers a melancholy tune
as if it dreamed of June, and whispered in its dream.” ~William Dean Howells

Knowledge House Guide to
HOLIDAYS & SPECIAL DAYS

August is...

Family Fun Month
National Catfish Month
National Golf Month
National Eye Exam Month
National Inventors Month
National Back-to-School Month
National Water Quality Month
Peach Month
American Family Day
(first Sunday in August)

AUGUST CALENDAR
1 Friendship Day William Clark's Birthday (1770) Francis Scott Key's Birthday (1779) First US Census (1790) Anne Frank's Last Diary Entry (1944) Birth of World Wide Web (1990)
2 Declaration of Independence Official Signing Day (1776) Albert Einstein's Atomic Bomb Letter to President Franklin Roosevelt (1939)
3 Columbus Sets Sail for New World (1492) National Watermelon Day National Mustard Day
4 National Chocolate Chip Day
5 National Waffle Day
6 Atomic Bomb Dropped On Hiroshima (1945) National Root Beer Float Day
7 First Picture of Earth from Space (1959) Operation Desert Shield Began (1990)
8 Bonza Bottler Day (There is one of these days in each month; it's when the number of the day is the same as the number of the month.)
9 Nagasaki Day (August 6 and 9 were the only times in history that nuclear weapons were used in war.) President Nixon Resigned (1974)
10 The Perseid Meteor Shower National Smores Day
11 The Perseids (Night of the Shooting Stars)
12 The Perseid Meteor Shower IBM Launches PC (1981)
13 International Lefthanders Day Berlin Wall Erected (1961)
14 V-J (Victory over Japan) Day National Creamsicle Day
15 National Relaxation Day Completion of Transcontinental U.S. Railway (1870) Opening of Panama Canal (1914)
16 Bennington Battle Day, VT (1777) Wilbur Wright's Birthday (1867)
17 Sand Castle Day Davy Crockett's Birthday (1786) First American Steamboat Trip (1807) First Transatlantic Balloon Crossing (1978)
18 Virginia Dare's Birthday (1587) Meriwether Lewis' Birthday (1774) Nineteenth Amendment Ratified (1920) National Ice Cream Pie Day
19 Orville Wright's Birthday (1871) National Aviation Day
20 Lemonade Day
21 Monarch Butterfly Fall Migration Begins Hawaii Statehood Day (1959)
22 Be An Angel Day
23 Chinese Festival of Hungry Ghosts
24 Vesuvius Day (Italy)
25 National Park Service Established (1916) "Wizard of Oz" Movie Released (1939) National Banana Split Day
26 Women's Suffrage Day
27 Mother Teresa's Birthday (1910)
28 "I Have a Dream" Speech Day (1963)
29 End of Soviet Communist Rule (1991)
30 Mary Shelley's Birthday (1797)
31 Maria Montessori's Birthday (1870) National Trail Mix Day
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*These dates change from year to year; check current calendar.
(National Days are American holidays unless stated otherwise.)

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