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August Events
 

 

 

Back to School Month

 

Family Fun Month

Inventor’s Month

 

Teacher Planet's Inventors Resource Page

 

National Parks Month

 

WebRangers

 

National Catfish Month

 

National Peach Month

Peach Facts

National Golf Month

National Water Quality Month

 

Kid’s Vision and Learning Month

 

HWTK Five Senses

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 

 

 

1  Respect for Parents Day

 

Sports Day

 

Begin National Clown Week

 

Colorado Admission Day, 1876

 

Switzerland

National Day

 

 

Photo Flash Bulb invented, 1930

 

Warsaw uprising, 1944

 

World Wide Web, 1990

 

William Clark, 1770

 

Francis Scott Key, 1779

 

Herman Melville, 1819

 

2

 

Signing of the Declaration of Independence, 1776

 

Pres. Warren Harding died, 1923

 

Iraq invaded Kuwait, 1990

 

3  National Watermelon Day

 

Tisha B’Av

 

Twin Day Festival begins in Twinsburg, Ohio

 

Christopher Columbus set sail, 1492

 

First ships through Panama Canal, 1914

 

Ernie Pyle, 1900

 

Maggie Kuhn, 1905

4  Coast Guard Day (1790)

 

National Mustard Day

 

England declared war on Germany, 1914

 

Anne Frank arrested by Gestapo, 1944

 

Nelson Mandela arrested in S. Africa, 1962

 

John Venn, 1834

 

Queen Mother Elizabeth, 1900

 

Louis Armstrong, 1901

 

Raoul Wallenberg, 1912

 

 

5  Sisters’ Day

 

Friendship Day

 

Begin National Smile Week

 

 

Guy de Maupassant, 1850

 

Neil Armstrong, 1930

 

6  National Kids’ Day

 

Crop Day

 

Jamaica Independence Day

 

First Woman to swim English Channel, 1926

 

Hiroshima bombing, 1945

7

Purple Heart est. 1782

 

First picture of Earth taken from space(Explorer VI), 1959

 

U.S. Marines land at Guadalcanal, 1942

 

Desert Shield, 1990

 

 

8  Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Night

 

First Canadian Turtle Derby, 1972

 

Matthew Henson, 1886

9 International Art Appreciation Day

 

Singapore National Day

 

National Blueberry Festival begins in Michigan

 

Jesse Owens wins four gold medals, 1936

 

Nagasaki bombing, 1945

 

Nixon resigned, 1974?

 

P.L. Travers

 

Seymour Simon, 1931

 

Smokey the Bear, 1944

 

Betty Boop

10 S’mores Day

 

Missouri Admission Day

 

Ecuador Independence Day, 1809

 

First Steam Locomotive

 

Construction begins on Mt. Rushmore

 

Smithsonian Institution founded, 1846

 

Pres. Truman signed National Security Bill, 1949

11

 

Chad Independence Day

 

 

 

Alex Haley, 1921

12  International Youth Day

 

Begin National Friendship Week

 

Hawaii annexed, 1898

 

Hendrickson found T. Rex fossil, 1990

 

Perseid meteor shower

 

Walter Dean Myers, 1937

13  Left-Handers’ Day

 

Fall of Aztec empire, 1512

 

First satellite conversation, 1948

 

Walter Caxton, 1422

 

14 V-J Day

 

Pakistan independence from Britain, 1947

 

Major U.S. power outage, 2003

 

Ernest Thayer, 1863

15

 

India Independence Day, 1947

 

Assumption Day

 

U.S. Transcontinental Railroad completed, 1870?1869

 

Panama Canal opened, 1914

16  Joke Day

 

Klondike gold discovered, 1896

 

Bathysphere reached record depth, 1934

17

Martian moon (Phobos) discovered, 1677?

 

Davy Crockett, 1786

18

 

Helium discovered on the Sun, 1868

 

Montgomery Ward published first catalog, 1872

 

King Kong premiered, 1933

 

Wizard of Oz premiered, 1939

 

Roberto Clemens, 1934

19  National Aviation Day

 

Potato Day

 

Orville Wright, 1871

20 National Radio Day

 

Lemonade Day

 

Alaska discovered, 1741

 

Robert Sperry, 1913

 

21

 

Hawaii Admission Day, 1959

 

Hungary State Day

 

First Lincoln-Douglas Debate, 1858

 

Mona Lisa stolen, 1911

 

Monarchs begin fall migration

22  Be An Angel Day

 

 

Midsummer Night

 

Ann Franklin, 1762

 

Ray Bradbury, 1920

23 International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

 

Hug Day

 

Mexico independence from Spain, 1821

 

First National Women’s Right Convention, 1850?

 

First photograph of Earth taken from moon, 1966 ?

24 Strange Music Day

 

National Peach Pie Day

 

Ukrainian Independence Day

 

Pompeii destroyed, 79 A.D.

 

First swimmer crossed English Channel, 1875

 

 

25

 

National Park Service established, 1916

 

Earhart completes famous flight, 1932

 

Lane Smith, 1959

26

Family Day

 

National Dog Day

 

Women’s Equality Day

 

Liberian independence, 1847

 

19th Amendment ratified, 1920

27

 

National Veterans Golden Age Games begin in Houston

 

First commercial oil well drilled, 1859

 

Krakatoa erupted, 1883

 

Mother Teresa

 

Lyndon B. Johnson, 1908

 

28

 

Martin Luther King, Jr. gave “I have a Dream” speech, 1963

 

Total Lunar Eclipse

 

Full Sturgeon Moon

29

 

More Herbs, Less Salt Day

 

Incan empire felled, 1533

 

Hurricane Katrina, 2005

 

Karen Hesse, 1952

30

Thurgood Marshall confirmed to Supreme Court, 1967

 

Jacques-Louis David, 1748

 

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1797

 

Virginia Lee Burton, 1909

31  International Blog Day

 

Eat Outside Day

 

Maria Montessori, 1870

 

 

 

 

 

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