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2011 August

AUGUST 2011
 
MONTH-LONG OBSERVANCES
Admit You’re Happy Month
American Adventure Month
American Artist Appreciation Month
American History Essay Month
American Indian Heritage Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Celery, Fennel, and Cactus Month
Children’s Vision and Learning Month
Eye Injury Prevention Month
Family Fun Month
Foot Health Month
Get Ready for Kindergarten Month
Happiness Happens Month
Home Business Month
May Reading Be Your Haven Month
Medic Alert Month
Motorsports Awareness Month
Mushroom and Onion Month
National Catfish Month
National Children’s Eye Health & Safety Month
National Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Month
National Golf Month
National Immunization Awareness Month
National Inventors Month
National Pain Awareness Month
National Panini Month
National Picnic Month
National Peach Month
National Runaway Prevention Month
National Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
National Truancy Prevention Month
National Water Quality Month
National Win With Civility Month
Neurosurgery Outreach Month
Orange and Papaya Month
Pedestrian Safety Month
Psoriasis Awareness Month
Romance Awareness Month
What Will Be Your Legacy Month
 
WEEK-LONG OBSERVANCES
1st Week
Exhibitor Appreciation Week
Hobo Week
National Fraud Awareness Week
National Simplify Your Life Week
Psychic Week
Rock for Life Week
Single Working Women’s Week
Sturgis Bike Rally
World Breastfeeding Week
 
2nd Week
Assistance Dog Week
Elvis Week
Exercise With Your Child Week
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week
International Clown Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week
National Apple Week
National Farmer’s Market Week
National Health Care Center Week
National Smile Week
Sturgis Rally
Thanks for All the Gifts Week
 
3rd Week
Air-Conditioning Appreciation Week
American Dance Week
National Aviation Week
National Friendship Week
National Resurrect Romance Month
Weird Contest Week
World Money Week
4th Week
Be Kind to Humankind Week
National Bowling Week
National Safe at Home Week
National Waffle Week
 
5th Week
Minority Enterprise Development Week
 
August 1st
Anne Frank’s Last Journal Entry (1944)
Chocolate Brownie 100th Anniversary
Francis Scott Key's Birthday (1779)
Gail Gibbons’ Birthday (1944)
Girlfriends Day
Herman Melville’s Birthday(1891)
International Forgiveness Day
Jerry Garcia (1942)
Last Entry in Anne Frank’s Diary
Lughnasa
MTV Debuted (1981)
National Minority Donor Awareness Day
National Mustard Day
National Raspberry Cream Pie Day
Respect for Parents' Day
Spiderman Day
Sport's Day
Sweet Corn Day
Switzerland Founded (1291)
Watermelon Lovers Day
William Clark (1770)
Work Like a Dog Day
World Wide Web Day
US Air Force Day
Yves St. Laurent’s Birthday (1936)
 
August 2nd
Betsy Bloomingdale’s Birthday (1926)
First Income Tax-Congress enacts first income tax (1861)
First Lincoln Penny Issued (1909)
Isabel Allende (1942)
Laura Bennett's Birthday (1963) – Project Runway
National Ice Cream Sandwich Day
National Ice Cream Soda Day
National Night Out (1st Tuesday)
Official Signing of the Declaration of Independence
Pierre Charles L’Enfant’s Birthday (1754)
 
August 3rd
American Family Day
Anne Klein's Birthday (1923)
Columbus Set Sail on His 1st Voyage (1492)
John Landis’ Birthday (1950)
Leon Uris’ Birthday (1924)
Martha Stewart’s Birthday (1941)
National Park Day
National Watermelon Day
Tony Bennett's Birthday (1926)
Victoria Jackson’s Birthday (1958)
 
August 4th
Champagne Day
Louis Armstrong’s Birthday (1901)
Louis Vuitton's Birthday (1821)
My Sister Margie Schiller’s Birthday
National Chocolate Chip Day
National Underwear Day
Percy Shelley’s Birthday (1792)
Queen Elizabeth I (1900)
Twins Festival Day
U.S. Coast Guard Day (Established 1790)
 
August 5th
Braham Pie Day
Half of Summer Day
International Beer Day
John Huston's Birthday (1906)
Lunar Eclipse
Maureen McCormick’s Birthday (Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!)
Mustard Seed Day
National Waffle Day
Neil Armstrong's Birthday (1930)
Work Like a Dog Day
 
August 6th
Alfred Lord Tennyson's Birthday (1809)
Andy Warhol’s Birthday (1928)
Hiroshima Day
Lucille Ball’s Birthday (1911)
National Fresh Breath Day
National Mustard Day
Peace Day
Peter Bonerz’ Birthday (1938)
Root Beer Float Day
Wiggle Your Toes Day
 
August 7th
Assistance Dog Day
Betsy Byar’s Birthday (1928)
Friendship Day
Garrison Keillor's Birthday (1942)
National Kids Day
National Lighthouse Day
Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day
Professional Speakers Day
Purple Heart Established (1782)
Sea Serpent Day
Sisters Day
Twins Day
 
August 8th
Admit You’re Happy Day
Assistance Dog Day
Bonza Bottler Day (eighth day of the eighth month)
Dave "the Edge Evans' Birthday (1961)
Dollar Day
Dustin Hoffman's Birthday (1937)
Eleanor Roosevelt Day
Esther Williams’ Birthday (1923)
Happiness Happens Day
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' Birthday (1896)
Odie Day
Sneak Some Zucchini on Neighbor’s Porch Night
The Date to Create Day
 
August 9th
Betty Boop's Birthday (1930)
Book Lovers Day
Dance a Polka Day
International Day of the World's Indigenous People
John Dryden's Birthday (1631)
Kool-Aid Day
Michael Kors' Birthday (1959)
Nagasaki Day
National Rice Pudding Day
 
August 10th
Betsy Johnson’s Birthday (1942)
First Steam Locomotive
Herbert Hoover's Birthday (1874)
Lazy Day
National Duran Duran Day
National S'Mores Day
Smithsonian Day
Take an Aspirin Day
 
August 11th
Alex Haley’s Birthday (1921)
Cherry Popsicle Day
Don Freeman’s Birthday (1908)
Ingersoll Day
Joe Jackson’s Birthday (1955)
Play in the Sand Day
Presidential Joke Day
Sons and Daughters Day
 
August 12th
Cecil B. DeMille’s Birthday (1881)
IBM PC Announced (1981)
International Youth Day
James (Diamond Jim) Brady's Birthday (1856)
Kool-Aid Days
Middle Children's Day
Sewing Machine Day
Truck Driver’s Day
UN International Youth Day
Vinyl Record Day
 
August 13th
Alfred Hitchcock’s Birthday (1899)
Annie Oakley's Birthday (1860)
Blame Someone Else Day
Dan Fogelberg’s Birthday (1951)
Don Ho's Birthday (1930)
Friday the 13th
International Left-Handers Day
National Filet Mignon Day
National Garage Sale Day
Trail Mix Day
 
August 14th
Assistance Dog Day
Gary Larson’s Birthday (1950)
Healthy Feet Day
National Creamsicle Day
National Garage Sale Day
National Navajo Code Talkers Day
Sandcastle and Sculpture Day
Sarah Brightman's Birthday (1960)
Steve Martin's Birthday (1945)
VJ Day
 
August 15th
Angel Food Cake Day
Assumption of the Virgin Mary
Best Friends Day
Julia Child's Birthday (1912)
Napoleon Bonaparte's Birthday (1769)
National Failures Day
National Relaxation Day
Rose Marie’s Birthday (1925)
Sir Walter Scott’s Birthday (1771)
Tom Colicchio’s Birthday (1962)
 
August 16th
Bratwurst Festival Day
Chinese Valentine’s Day
Elvis Memorial Day
Joe Miller’s Joke Day
National Airborne Day
National Tell a Joke Day
Roller Coaster Day (Patented in 1898)
Steve Carell's Birthday (1946)
T. E. Lawrence Birthday (1888)
Vanessa Carlton's Birthday (1980)
 
August 17th
#2 Pencil Day
Archeology Day
Belinda Carlisle's Birthday (1958)
Davy Crockett's Birthday (1786)
First TransAtlantic Balloon Trip (1978)
Maureen O’Hara’s Birthday (1920)
National Thrift Shop Day
Robert DeNiro’s Birthday (1943)
Samuel Goldwyn’s Birthday (1882)
Watermelon Day
 
August 18th
Bad Poetry Day
Cupcake Day
Mail Order Catalog Day
Max Factor's Birthday (1904)
Merriweather Lewis’ Birthday (1774)
Moot Point Day
National Personal Chef Day
19th Amendment Ratified-Women’s Right to Vote (1920)
Paula Danzinger’s Birthday (1944)
Robert Redford’s Birthday (1937)
Wizard of Oz Premiered (1939)
 
August 19th
Black Cow-Root Beer Float Anniversary Day
Coco Chanel’s Birthday (1883)
Hug Your Boss Day
Kyra Sedgwick’s Birthday (1965)
Malcolm Forbes' Birthday (1919)
National Aviation Day
Ogden Nash’s Birthday (1902)
Orville Wright's Birthday (1871)
Peter Gallagher's Birthday (1955)
Potato Day
Spicy Food Day
Stay At Home With Your Kids Day
World Humanitarian Day
 
August 20th
Chinese Valentine's Day/Daughter's Day
Edgar Guest’s Birthday (1881)
Joan Allen’s Birthday (1956)
National Homeless Animals Day
National Men's Grooming Day
National Radio Day
Pony Express Day
Robert Plant's Birthday (1948)
Sandcastle and Sculpture Day
Virtual Worlds Day
World Daffodil Day
 
August 21st
Count Basie's Birthday (1904)
Distilled Water Day
Dorothy Parker’s Birthday (1893)
Hawaii Becomes the 50th State (1959)
National Spumoni Ice Cream Day
Poet’s Day
Senior Citizens Day
 
August 22nd
Annie Proulx's Birthday (1935)
Be An Angel Day
Claude Debussy’s Birthday (1862)
Eat a Peach Day
Giada de Laurentiis' Birthday (1970)
National Tooth Fairy Day
Norman Schwarzkopf's Birthday (1934)
Ray Bradbury’s Birthday (1920)
Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day
 
August 23rd
Gene Kelly's Birthday (1912)
Hair Dye Day
National Sponge Cake Day
Potato Feast Days
Ride the Wind Day
Valentino Day
 
August 24th
A S Byatt’s Birthday (1936)
Can Opener Day
Children’s Day
Knife Day
National Peach Pie Day
National Waffle Day
Pluto Demoted Day
Rupert Grint’s Birthday (1988)
Strange Music Day
Vesuvius Day
Waffle Iron Patented (1869)
 
August 25th
Elvis Costello’s Birthday (1954)
Gene Simmons’ Birthday (1949)
Kiss and Make Up Day
Leonard Bernstein’s Birthday (1918)
National Banana Split Day
National Second Hand Wardrobe Day
Rachel Ray’s Birthday (1968)
Sean Connery’s Birthday (1930)
Soy Bean Day
St. Bartholomew's Day
Tim Burton’s Birthday (1958)
 
August 26th
Albert Sabin’s Birthday (1906)
Christopher Isherwood’s Day (1904)
Horseshoe Day
Macaulay Culkin’s Birthday (1980)
National Cherry Popsicle Day
National Dog Day
Women's Equality Day
 
August 27th
Banana Lovers Day
Confucius’ Birthday (551 BC)
Global Forgiveness Day
Just Because Day
Mother Teresa's Birthday (1910)
Paul Reubens’ Birthday (1952)
Petroleum Day
The Duchess Who Wasn’t Day
 
August 28th
Crackers Over the Keyboard Day
Dream Day MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
Elizabeth Ann Seton’s Birthday (1774)
Jack Black’s Birthday (1969)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Birthday (1749)
Leo Tolstoy’s Birthday (1828)
National Cherry Turnover Day
Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day
Radio Commercials Day
Tall Building Day
Tasha Tudor’s Birthday (1915)
World Sauntering Day
 
August 29th
According to Hoyle Day
Charlie Bird Parker's Birthday (1920)
Chop Suey Invented (1896)
First Scout Camp Opened (1934)
Ingrid Bergman’s Birthday (1915)
John Locke’s Birthday (1632)
Lea Michele’s Birthday (1986)
Lemon Juice Day
More Herbs Less Salt Day
Oliver Wendell Holmes’ Birthday (1809)
Todd English’s Birthday (1960)
 
August 30th
Frankenstein Day
Fred MacMurray’s Birthday (1908)
Geoffrey Beene's Birthday (1927)
Get a Slinky Day
Jean-Claude Kelly’s Birthday (1943)
Laurent de Brunhoff’s Birthday (1925)
Mary Shelley's Birthday (1797)
National Holistic Pet Day
National Toasted Marshmallow Day
Slumber Party Night
Virginia Lee Burton’s Birthday (1909)
 
August 31st
Alan Jay Lerner's Birthday (1918)
Eat Outside Day
Itzhak Perlman's Birthday (1945)
Love Litigating Lawyers Day
Maria Montessori’s Birthday (1870)
National Trail Mix Day
Remember the Summer Day
Richard Gere’s Birthday (1949)
Van Morrison’s Birthday (1945)