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    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.
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    sun  The Month of August at Enchanted Learning.com
    sun  More happenings in August.

    sun Click here for some ideas about August.... and some more August Happenings

    sun  August Themes at edHelper.com
    sun Fact Monster's Daily Feature gives loads of information about each day.

     

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    sun Special Weeks in Augustsun
    1st Week
     sun National Clown Week
    2nd Week
    sun Elvis Week, National Apple Week, National Smile Week; 
    3rd Week
    sun American Dance Week; Air Conditioning Appreciation Week;
    1st Sunday in Aug.
    sun National Friendship Day
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    August 1

    sun World Wide Web Day
    sun  Frances Scott Key's birthday (1779);
    sun In 1960, Chubby Checker's "The Twist" was released.
    sun  Yves Saint Laurent's birthday (1936). The fashion designer that is credited with making women's trousers popular for any occasion.

    August 2

    sun Coloring Book Day

    sun National Ice Cream Sandwich Day
    sun Pierre 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.
    sun Signing of the Declaration of Independence

    August 3

    sun National Watermelon Day
    sun Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain in 1492. He left Palos, Spain, before sunrise with three ships and a crew of 90 men.

    August 4

    sun Munro Leaf's birthday - author of Ferdinand
    sun
    In 1922 The nation’s 13 MILLION TELEPHONES WERE SILENT for a moment in tribute to Alexander Graham Bell on the occasion of his funeral.
    sun Coast Guard Day

    August 5

    sun Neil Armstrong's birthday (1930)
    sun The comic strip, "Little Orphan Annie", debuted in the New York Daily News in 1924.
    sun Dick Clark's American Bandstand debuted in 1957.
    sun National Mustard Day
    sun Oyster Day

    August 6
    sun Matt Christopher's birthday (1917)
    sun Barbara Cooney's birthday (1917)
    sun Frank Asch's birthday (1946)
    sun Friendship Day
    August 7

    sun Betsy Byars' birthday (1928)
    sun Lighthouse Day



    August 8
     
     

    August 9

    sun International Cat Day

     

    sun President Richard M. Nixon resigns in 1974
    sun In 1944 the Forest Service created Smokey the Bear to represent forest fire prevention. 

    August 10
    sun The Smithsonian Institute was founded in 1846.
    August 11
    sun Don Freeman's birthday (1908)
    August 12
    sun Cecil B. deMille's birthday (1881)
    sun Thomas Edison invented the PHONOGRAPH.
    August 13
    sun Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee's birthday, "Annie Oakley" (1860)
    sun Alfred Hitchcock's birthday (1899)
    sun   International Lefthanders Day
    August 15
    sun Napoleon Bonaparte's birthday (1769)
    sun National Relaxation Day

    sun Woodstock Music Festival began at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in New York on Friday, August 15th in 1969.
    sun Davy Crockett's birthday (1786)

    August 16
    sun Beatrice S. DeRegniers' birthday (1914)
    August 18
    sun The first mail-order catalog was published by Montgomery Ward in 1872. It was a single sheet of paper.
    August 19
    sun Orville Wright's birthday (1871) National Aviation Day
    sun President of the United States,William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton's birthday (1946)
    sun Ogden Nash's birthday (1902)
    sun California gold strike in 1848

    August 20

    sun 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 23
     
    August 25
    sun The movie The Wizard of Oz was first released in 1939.

    August 26

    sun Women's Equality Day - 19th amendment signed into law.
    sun button  National Dog Day
    August 27
    sun K'ung Fut-tzu, "Confucius" birthday (551 B.C.)
    sun President of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson's birthday (1908)
    sun "Mother Teresa's" birthday (1910)
    August 28

    sun Allen Say's birthday (1937)
    sun Tasha Tudor's birthday (1915)

    sun Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C. in 1963

    August 28
    sun Virginia Lee Burton's birthday (1909)
     August 29 sun button  Hurricane Katrina  devastates the Gulf Coast (2005)
    August 30
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    This page was last updated on Monday, August 14,2017.

     

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