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August
1 |
 Frances Scott Key's
birthday (1779);
In 1960, Chubby Checker's "The
Twist" was released.
MTV
debuted in 1981
Yves Saint
Laurent's birthday (1936). The fashion designer that is
credited with making women's trousers popular for any
occasion. |
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August
2 |
National
Ice Cream Sandwich Day
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.
Signing of the Declaration of
Independence |
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August
3 |
National Watermelon
Day
Christopher
Columbus set sail from Spain in 1492. He left Palos,
Spain, before sunrise with three ships and a crew of 90
men. |
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August
4 |
Munro
Leaf's birthday - author of Ferdinand
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.
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August
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
Day |
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August
6 |
Matt Christopher's
birthday (1917)
Barbara
Cooney's birthday (1917)
Frank
Asch's birthday (1946) |
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August
7 |
Betsy
Byars' birthday (1928) |
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August
9 |
President
Richard M. Nixon resigns in 1974
In 1944 the Forest Service created Smokey the Bear to
represent forest fire prevention. |
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August
10 |
The Smithsonian Institute was
founded in 1846. |
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August
11 |
Don
Freeman's birthday (1908) |
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August
12 |
Cecil
B. deMille's birthday (1881)
Thomas Edison invented
the PHONOGRAPH. |
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August
13 |
Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee's birthday, "Annie
Oakley" (1860)
Alfred
Hitchcock's birthday (1899)
International
Lefthanders Day |
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August
15 |
Napoleon
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) |
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August
16 |
Beatrice S. DeRegniers' birthday
(1914) |
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August
18 |
The first
mail-order catalog was published by Montgomery Ward in 1872.
It was a single sheet of paper. |
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August
19 |
Orville
Wright's birthday (1871) National Aviation Day
William Jefferson "Bill"
Clinton's birthday (1946)
Ogden Nash's birthday (1902)
California gold
strike in 1848 |
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August
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. |
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August
23 |
Martin Luther
King delivered his "I
Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C. in
1963 |
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August
25 |
The
movie The
Wizard of Oz was first released in 1939. |
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August
26 |
Women's Equality Day |
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August
27 |
K'ung Fut-tzu,
"Confucius"
birthday (551 B.C.)
Lyndon
Baines Johnson's birthday (1908)
"Mother
Teresa's" birthday (1910) |
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August
28 |
Allen
Say's birthday (1937)
Tasha Tudor's
birthday (1915) |
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August
28 |
Virginia
Lee Burton's birthday (1909) |
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August
30 |
Author and
Illustrator Donald
Crews' birthday
(1938) |
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Special Weeks in August