August

**1** || **Holling C. Holling** **2** || **Columbus Set Sail on his 1st Voyage In 1492.** **3** || **National Mustard Day** **4** || **5** || **Australia Picnic Day** **6** || **Betsy Byars born, 1928** **7** || **Dollar Day The US dollar was created in 1786.** **8** || **Betty Boop Created in 1930.** **9** || **Herbert Hoover Born in 1874, in West Branch, Iowa.** **10** || **Don Freeman born, 1908** **11** || **12** || **Annie Oakley Born in 1860.** **13** || **Alice Provensen born, 1917** **14** || **Brinton Turkle born, 1915** **15** || **Beatrice de Regniers born, 1914** **16** || **Myra Cohn Livingston born, 1926** **17** || **International Homeless Animals Day** **18** || **19** || **National Radio Day** **20** || **Wilt Chamberlain Born in 1936 in Philadelphia, PA.** **21** || **Be An Angel Day** **22** || **First Photograph of Earth From the Moon Taken by Lunar Orbiter in 1966.** **23** || **National Peach Pie Day** **24** || **Kiss and Make Up Day** **25** || **26** || **Mother Teresa Born in 1910.** **27** || **Roger Duvoisin born, 1904** **28** || **First Scout Camp Opened In 1934.** **29** || **Laurent de Brunhoff born, 1925** **30** || **Alan Jay Lerner Born in 1918, New York.** **31** ||  ||
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 * ||  ||   || [[image:http://www.theteacherscorner.net/images/spacer.gif caption="spacer"]]**Francis Scott Key Born in 1779.**
 * MTV Debuted In 1981.**
 * Respect for Parents' Day**
 * Sport's Day**
 * Switzerland Founded In 1291.**
 * Switzerland Founded In 1291.**
 * First Income Tax Congress enacts first income tax in 1861.**
 * First Lincoln Penny Issued In 1909.**
 * National Ice Cream Sandwich Day**
 * National Watermelon Day**
 * Mary Calhoun**
 * Coast Guard Day (Established in 1790)**
 * Barack Obama born, 1961 (44th U.S. President)**
 * [[image:http://www.theteacherscorner.net/images/spacer.gif caption="spacer"]]**American Family Day**
 * Neil Armstrong born in Ohio in 1930.**
 * Robert Bright born, 1902**
 * Barbara Cooney born, 1917**
 * Alfred Lord Tennyson born, 1809**
 * Odie's Birthday (Garfield the Cat's friend)**
 * Wiggle Your Toes Day**
 * Sea Serpent Day**
 * Thomas Edison received a patent for the mimeograph machine in 1876.**
 * National Rice Pudding Day**
 * Smokey Bear's Birthday (1944)**
 * S'Mores Day**
 * Hulk Hogan Born in 1953**
 * Play in the Sand Day**
 * Author Alex Haley's Birthday, 1921.**
 * The last total solar eclipse of the millennium (1999)**
 * [[image:http://www.theteacherscorner.net/images/spacer.gif caption="spacer"]]**IBM PC Announced in 1981.**
 * Middle Children's Day**
 * Hawaii Annexed to the U.S. (1898)**
 * International Left-Hander's Day**
 * National Filet Mignon Day**
 * Fall of the Aztec Empire, 1512.**
 * National Creamsicle Day**
 * Japan Surrendered in World War II, 1945.**
 * Julia Child Born in Pasadena, California in 1912.**
 * National Relaxation Day**
 * Transcontinental Railroad completed, 1869.**
 * National Tell a Joke Day**
 * Roller Coaster Day Roller coaster patented in 1898.**
 * Davy Crockett Born in Tennessee in 1786.**
 * Louis Fatio born, 1904**
 * Bad Poetry Day**
 * Wizard of Oz Premiered In 1939.**
 * [[image:http://www.theteacherscorner.net/images/spacer.gif caption="spacer"]]**Eid al-Fitr Muslim Holiday**
 * National Aviation Day**
 * Bill Clinton Born in Hope, Arkansas in 1946.**
 * Orville Wright Born in 1871.**
 * Potato Day**
 * Snuffleupagus's Birthday (Sesame Street Character)**
 * Mosquito Day**
 * Vitus Bering discovered Alaska in 1741.**
 * First Lincoln-Douglas Debate, 1858.**
 * Ann Franklin's Birthday (1762) First female newspaper editor**
 * National Sponge Cake Day**
 * First National Women's Rights Convention, 1850.**
 * International Strange Music Day**
 * National Waffle Day**
 * Waffle Iron Patented In 1869, invented by Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York.**
 * Mount Vesuvius Erupted, 79 A.D.**
 * In 1932, Amelia Earhart flew across the U.S.**
 * National Banana Split Day**
 * National Park Service Established 1916.**
 * [[image:http://www.theteacherscorner.net/images/spacer.gif caption="spacer"]]**Women's Equality Day The anniversary of women getting the right to vote - the signing of the 19th Amendment, 1920.**
 * Dream Day Martin Luther King Jr. gave the 'I Have a Dream' speech in 1963.**
 * National Cherry Turnover Day**
 * Michael Jackson Born in Gary, Indiana in 1958.**
 * Speedy Gonzales Debuted in 1953.**
 * Herry Monster's Birthday (Sesame Street Character)**
 * National Toasted Marshmallow Day**
 * Thurgood Marshall took a seat on the Supreme Court, 1967.**
 * National Trail Mix Day**
 * Educator Maria Montessori's Birthday, 1870.**
 * __Special Goings-On__**


 * Friendship Day (1st Sunday)**


 * National Clown Week (1st Week)**


 * Elvis Week (2nd Week)**


 * National Apple Week (2nd Week)**


 * National Smile Week (2nd Week)**


 * Air Conditioning Appreciation Week (3rd Week)**


 * American Dance Week (3rd Week)**
 * American Artist Appreciation Month**


 * Foot Health Month**


 * Home Business Month**


 * National Catfish Month**


 * National Golf Month**


 * National Inventors Month**


 * National Water Quality Month**