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Blackwell's Best - August Days
August is American Artist Appreciation Month, National Catfish Month, National Golf Month, National Inventor's Month, National Water Quality Month, Children's Vision and Learning Month; National Back to School Month; Family History Month
August Flower is Poppy and Birthstone is Sardonyx.
Click here for some ideas about August.... and some more August Happenings Fact Monster's Daily Feature gives loads of information about each day.
Special Weeks in August1st Week
National Clown Week2nd WeekElvis Week, National Apple Week, National Smile Week; 3rd WeekAmerican Dance Week; Air Conditioning Appreciation Week;1st Sunday in Aug.National Friendship Day
August 1World Wide Web Day Frances Scott Key's birthday (1779); In 1960, Chubby Checker's "The Twist" was released. Yves Saint Laurent's birthday (1936). The fashion designer that is credited with making women's trousers popular for any occasion.August 2National Ice Cream Sandwich DayPierre Charles L'Enfant's birthay (1754) - After serving as an officer in the Revolutionary War, he was selected by Washington and Jefferson to draw up plans fora new national capital in Washington D.C. His plan featured broad avenues radiating out from the capitol building.Signing of the Declaration of IndependenceAugust 3National Watermelon DayChristopher Columbus set sail from Spain in 1492. He left Palos, Spain, before sunrise with three ships and a crew of 90 men.August 4Munro Leaf's birthday - author of FerdinandIn 1922 The nation’s 13 MILLION TELEPHONES WERE SILENT for a moment in tribute to Alexander Graham Bell on the occasion of his funeral.Coast Guard DayAugust 5 Neil Armstrong's birthday (1930)The comic strip, "Little Orphan Annie", debuted in the New York Daily News in 1924.Dick Clark's American Bandstand debuted in 1957.National Mustard DayOyster DayAugust 6Matt Christopher's birthday (1917)Barbara Cooney's birthday (1917)Frank Asch's birthday (1946)Friendship DayAugust 7Betsy Byars' birthday (1928)Lighthouse Day
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August 9President Richard M. Nixon resigns in 1974In 1944 the Forest Service created Smokey the Bear to represent forest fire prevention. August 10The Smithsonian Institute was founded in 1846. August 11Don Freeman's birthday (1908)August 12Cecil B. deMille's birthday (1881)
Thomas Edison invented the PHONOGRAPH.August 13Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee's birthday, "Annie Oakley" (1860)
Alfred Hitchcock's birthday (1899) International Lefthanders Day August 15Napoleon Bonaparte's birthday (1769)
National Relaxation Day
Woodstock Music Festival began at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in New York on Friday, August 15th in 1969.
Davy Crockett's birthday (1786)August 16Beatrice S. DeRegniers' birthday (1914)August 18The first mail-order catalog was published by Montgomery Ward in 1872. It was a single sheet of paper.August 19Orville Wright's birthday (1871) National Aviation DayPresident of the United States,William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton's birthday (1946)Ogden Nash's birthday (1902)California gold strike in 1848August 20
Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the US was born in 1833. He was the grandson of William Henry Harrison, the 9th president of the US.August 23August 25The movie The Wizard of Oz was first released in 1939.August 26
Women's Equality Day - 19th amendment signed into law.August 27K'ung Fut-tzu, "Confucius" birthday (551 B.C.)President of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson's birthday (1908)"Mother Teresa's" birthday (1910) August 28Allen Say's birthday (1937)Tasha Tudor's birthday (1915)Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C. in 1963August 28Virginia Lee Burton's birthday (1909)August 29 Hurricane Katrina devastates the Gulf Coast (2005)August 30
