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August
August Monthly Celebrations
- Admit You’re Happy Month
- Family Fun Month
- Dog Days of Summer – July 3 – August 11
- International Pirate Month
- National Catfish Month
- National Eye Exam Month
- National Golf Month
- National Picnic Month
- Peach Month
- Romance Awareness Month
- Water Quality Month
August Weekly Events
- International Clown Week – always August 1-7
- Week 1 National Simplify your Life Week
- Week 2 National Smile Week
- Week 3 Friendship Week
- Week 4 Be Kind to Humankind Week
August Holidays That Vary
- International Beer Day – First Friday in August
- Campfire Day – First Saturday in August
- International Hangover Day – First Saturday in August
- National Clown Day – Saturday during International Clown Week
- National Mustard Day first Saturday
- Sandcastle Day – first Saturday of the Month
- Friendship Day – First Sunday in August
- International Forgiveness Day – First Sunday in August
- Sisters Day – First Sunday in August
- National Kool-Aid Day – second Friday in August
- Middle Child’s Day – second Saturday in August
- National Garage Sale Day – second Saturday in August
- Annual Perseid Meteor Shower – Peak Night – peak date varies slightly
- National Honey Bee Awareness Day – Third Saturday
- Chinese Valentine’s Day/Daughter’s Day – 7th day of 7th Lunar Month
- National Tooth Fairy Day – and/or February 28
- World Daffodil Day – date varies
August 1
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Holidays
The following list of holidays comes from HolidayInsights.com. Get more information about the holiday by clicking it and reading more on Holiday Insights.
This Day In History
Here are the highlights from OnThisDay.com for today. For more details, visit their site to explore additional events. We’ve focused on positive events, and while you use these creatively, please ensure they are presented respectfully and accurately to avoid any misunderstandings.
- 1774 English chemist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen by isolating it in its gaseous state
- 1793 France becomes 1st country to use the metric system
- 1834 Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into effect, abolishes slavery throughout the British Empire
- 1867 Blacks vote for 1st time in a US state election in the South (Tennessee)
- 1900 The 1st Michelin Guide is published by the brothers Édouard and André Michelin as a hotel and restaurant reference guide to encourage more road travel and thus boost tire sales (exact date beyond Aug 1900 unknown)
- 1911 Harriet Quimby passes her pilot's test and becomes the 1st US woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate
- 1927 Influential country music group the Carter Family make their first recording with producer Ralph Peer in Bristol, Tennessee
- 1932 George Washington quarter goes into circulation
- 1944 Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested
- 1944 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. elected 1st African-American congressman from New York
- 1957 1st commercial building heated by Sun (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
- 1968 Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins
- 1981 "Endless Love" single released by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie (Billboard Song of the Year 1981, Billboard Greatest Song Duet of All-Time)
- 1981 Music video cable channel MTV debuts in US at 12:01 AM with The Buggles song "Video Killed The Radio Star"
- 1982 Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson, Travis Jackson and Happy Chandler inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame
- 1994 Baltimore shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. becomes only the second player after Lou Gehrig to appear in 2,000 consecutive MLB games, in a 1-0 win vs Twins
- 1996 George R.R. Martin publishes the epic fantasy novel "A Game of Thrones", the first in his series "A Song of Ice and Fire"
- 2005 Stieg Larsson's novel "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (first of the Millennium series) is published posthumously in Sweden
August 2
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- 1610 English explorer Henry Hudson enters the bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay
- 1776 Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people (date most accepted by modern historians)
- 1782 George Washington creates Honorary Badge of Distinction
- 1819 1st parachute jump in US by Frenchman Louis-Charles Guille over Jersey City
- 1858 1st mailboxes installed in Boston and NYC streets
- 1865 Lewis Carroll publishes “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
- 1892 George A. Wheeler is granted a US patent for a prototype of the escalator
- 1909 US issues 1st Lincoln penny
- 2017 New crypto-currency Bitcoin Cash is created via a hard-fork of Bitcoin’s blockchain technology and brand
- 2018 Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value
August 3
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August 4
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- 1821 1st edition of American magazine “The Saturday Evening Post”
- 1956 Elvis Presley releases “Hound Dog”, a cover of Big Mama Thorton’s original, written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
- 1958 The Billboard Hot 100 is published for the 1st time, with “Poor Little Fool” by Ricky Nelson at #1
- 1984 Prince’s “Purple Rain” album goes #1 & stays #1 for 24 weeks
- 2007 32-year-old Alex Rodriguez becomes the youngest player in MLB history to hit 500 home runs, connecting on the 1st pitch he sees as NY Yankees beat Kansas City, 16-8
August 5
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- 1884 Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe’s Island (NYC)
- 1926 Harry Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1½ hrs before escaping
- 1998 The American spin-off “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”, starring Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, and Wayne Brady, debuts on ABC
August 6
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- 1945 Atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress “Enola Gay”
- 1963 Philadelphia NBA franchise changes name from ‘Nationals’ to the ’76ers’, based on US Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia in 1776
- 1965 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act prohibiting voting discrimination against minorities
- 2006 Tiger Woods (30) becomes the youngest player to compile 50 PGA Tour wins with a 3 stroke victory over Jim Furyk in the Buick Open at Grand Blanc, Michigan
August 7
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- 1606 Possible first performance of Shakespeare‘s tragedy Macbeth, performed in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace for King James I
- 1782 George Washington creates the Purple Heart medal (original name Badge of Military Merit) as commander of the Continental Army
- 1963 Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st US First Lady to give birth (Patrick Kennedy) since Mrs Cleveland
- 1992 The Orlando Magic signs NBA No. 1 draft pick Shaquille O’Neal
- 2021 Kevin Durant with 29 points leads USA to his third and the team’s 4th consecutive Olympic men’s basketball gold medal with an 87-82 win over France in Tokyo
August 8
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Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day – now that’s nasty!
This Day In History
- 1911 The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire.
- 1969 The Beatles are photographed by Iain MacMillan crossing the street as they walk away from EMI Studios, for the cover of their “Abbey Road” album.
- 1992 The original US ‘Dream Team’ wins the basketball gold at the Barcelona Olympics 117-85 over Croatia; features superstars Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Scottie Pippen, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing
- 2021 USA women’s basketball team wins it’s record extending 7th consecutive Olympic gold medal with 90-75 win over Japan in Tokyo; guards Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi each win their 5th straight gold
August 9
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- 1974 Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States and Vice President Gerald Ford swears the oath of office to take his place as the 38th US President
August 10
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August 11
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- 1919 Green Bay Packers football club founded by George Calhoun and Curly Lambeau – named after sponsor Indian Packing Company
- 2008 Airbnb is founded by Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk
August 12
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- 1877 Thomas Edison completes 1st model for the phonograph, a device that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders
- 1908 Henry Ford‘s company builds the first Model T car
August 13
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August 14
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14/15 V-J Day – which date do you celebrate as the end of WWII?
This Day In History
August 15
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Relaxation Day – now this one’s for me!
This Day In History
- 1969 Woodstock Festival opens in Bethel, New York on Max Yasgur’s Dairy Farm; performers include Richie Havens, Tim Hardin, Ravi Shankar, Melanie, Arlo Guthrie, and Joan Baez
- 1995 “Macarena” single is released by Los del Rio (I had to know this … so do you! lol)
- 2017 Falling tree kills 13, injures 49 at a religious festival in Funchal, on Portuguese island of Madeira
August 16
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- 1501 Michelangelo awarded the contract to create his statue of David at Florence Cathedral by the Overseers of the Office of Works (the Operai) of the Duomo
- 1987 Bon Jovi release their 3rd album “Slippery When Wet” (Billboard’s top selling album of 1987
August 17
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- 1939 Musical film “The Wizard of Oz”, starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, and Jack Haley opens at Loews Capitol Theatre, NYC
August 18
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- 1956 Elvis Presley‘s “Hound Dog” and “Don’t Be Cruel” reach #1 in the charts
August 19
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- 1967 The Beatles’ “All You Need is Love” single goes #1
August 20
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- 1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over
- 1896 Dial telephone patented
August 21
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- 1841 John Hampton patents venetian blind
August 22
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- 565 St Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness – Do you think it exists? 🙂
- 1865 William Sheppard is issued the first US patent for liquid soap
- 1901 Cadillac Motor Company is founded
- 1989 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson)
August 23
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- 1904 Automobile tire chain patented
August 24
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- 1853 1st potato chips prepared by chef George Crum at Moon’s Lake House, near Saratoga Springs, New York (popular legend says he invented though earlier recipes exist)
- 1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
- 1912 District of Alaska becomes an organized incorporated territory of the United States
- 1932 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart
- 2006 After signing a one-day contract with the San Francisco 49ers, Jerry Rice officially retires from the NFL
- 2009 “Love Like Crazy” single released by Lee Brice (Billboard Song of the Year 2010)
August 25
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- 1932 Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
August 26
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- 1843 American inventor Charles Thurber patents a typewriter
- 1873 First free kindergarten in the U.S. started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri
August 27
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- 1955 “Guinness Book of World Records” 1st published
- 1964 Walt Disney‘s “Mary Poppins” directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke premieres in Los Angeles
- 1990 “No Fences” second studio album by Garth Brooks is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1991)
- 2012 “Thrift Shop” single is released by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Billboard Song of the Year 2013, Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song 2014)
August 28
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Race Your Mouse Day – but we are not sure what kind of “mouse”
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August 29
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- 1958 George Harrison joins The Quarrymen, who later become The Beatles
August 30
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August 31
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- 1987 Michael Jackson‘s “Bad” video premieres on CBS TV
- 1990 Baseball outfielders Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Jr. become the 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), the pair hit back-to-back singles in the first inning and both scored
- 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris
- 2009 The Walt Disney Company announces it will acquire Marvel Entertainment for $4.24 billion
NOTE: Information within the Content Calendar was curated from Holidayinsights.com, & OnThisDay.com.
