August 31

Today Is...

International Bacon Day
(August is fantastic for bacon, August 20 was Bacon Lovers Day, then comes today! Bacon is definitely a food to be celebrated, and enjoyed all year round!))

National Trail Mix Day
(Peanuts, raisins, M&M's, Cashews, granola - an awesome mix! Be creative and throw even more surprises in!

Love Litigating Lawyers Day

Eat Outside Day
(Enjoy that trail mix with breakfast, lunch or dinner outside alfresco! )

We Love Memoirs Day
(Currently the best memoir is . If I could read choose someone to read a memoir by, I'd choose

Today's Birthdays
1870 - Maria Montessori, educator, physician
1897 - Frederic March, actor, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
1924 - Buddy Hackett, actor, comedian (was an AMAZINGLY funny man, especially when not censored! )
1928 - James Coburn, actor (was one handsome man with a great voice!)
1935 - Frank Robinson, baseball player, manager
1945 - Van Morrison, singer (one of my favirite singers!)
1949 - Richard Gere, actor, "Pretty Woman", "Chicago"
1955 - Edwin Moses, champion Olympic track athlete

Today In History
1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1964 -  Heavy weight champion Rocky Marciano dies in a plane crash near Newton, Iowa.
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.

August 30

Today Is...
National Toasted Marshmallow Day
(Great way to finish off the last weekend in August!)

Frankenstein Day
(In honor of author Mary Wollenstone Shelley who was born on August 30,1797, ....and, in my book, it honors Edgar Winter's great song as well, one of my favorite's!)

International Whale Shark Day
(The whale shark is the largest species of any fish, my guppies swim in awe of them!)

National Grief Awareness Day

National Holistic Pet Day

International Day of The Victims of Enforced Disappearances

Pony Express Day

Birthdays
1748 - Jacques-Louis David, painter
1797 - Mary Wollenstone Shelley, author, wrote "Frankenstein" in 1818.
1898 - Shirley Booth, actress
1901 - Roy Wilkins, civil rights leader
1908 - Fred MacMurray, actor
1918 - Ted Williams, MLB baseball player
1930 - Warren Buffett, investor
1941 - Elizabeth Ashley, actress
1943 - Jean-Claude Killy, champion Olympic champion skier
1951 - Timothy Bottoms, actor
1972 - Cameron Diaz, actress, "My Best Friends' Wedding",  movie "Charlie's Angels"

This Date In History 
The Late Show with David Letterman premieres on CBS. (1993)

August 29

Chop Suey Day

Lemon Juice Day

According to Hoyle Day

Individual Rights Day

Franchise Appreciation Day (Last Saturday)

International Bat Night  (Last Full Weekend)
International Day Against Nuclear Tests
More Herbs, Less Salt Day
National Sarcoidosis Awareness Day
National Whiskey Sour Day  (Also observed on 25th)

Birthdates
1632 - John Locke, philosopher
1915 - Ingrid Bergman, actress
1920 - Charlie "Bird" Parker, jazz saxophonist
1936 - John McCain III, Arizona senator, presidential candidate
1938 - Elliott Gould, actor
1941 - Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia
1958 - Michael Jackson, singer, songwriter

Today In History

Walt Disney's Mary Poppins is released. (1964)

August 28

Today Is...

College Colors Day

Bow Tie Day

Cherry Turnover Day

Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day

Radio Commercials Day

Crackers Over The Keyboard Day

Today's Birthdates
1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, author, poet, philosopher
1774 - Elizabeth Ann Seton, founder of Catholic Schools, first American-born saint
1828 - Leo Tolstoy, author, "War and Peace"
1889 - Charles Boyer, actor
1925 - Donald O'Connor, actor, dancer
1930 - Ben Gazzara, actor
1958 - Scott Hamilton, champion Olympic figure skater
1965 - Shania Twain, country singer
1969 - Jason Priestley, actor
1982 - LeAnn Rimes, country singer

Today's Historical Events
- Senator Thurmond begins a 24 hour filibuster against the Civil Rights Bill. (1957)
- Martin Luther King Jr. makes his "I Have a Dream" speech. (1963)

August 27

Today Is...

National Pots de Crème Day

Global Forgiveness Day

Just Because Day
(Today I'll 

National Petroleum Day
(Great day to take a drive!)

The Duchess Who Wasn't Day
(The Duchess Who Wasn't Day on August 27 celebrates the life, times and works of Irish author Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. Born in 1855, Hungerford wrote anonymously under the pen name, The Duchess. She is most well known for her book Molly Bawn, and for her quote "Beauty is in the eye if the beholder".)

Born Today
1908- Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th  U.S. President (1963-1969)
1910- Mother Teresa, nun , founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity
1916- Martha Raye, actress, comedian, singer
1929- Ira Levin, novelist, playwright
1942- Daryl Dragon, musician, singer, member of the "Captain & Tennille"
1943- Tuesday Weld, actress
1952- Paul Reubens, actor, starred on children's show and movies "Pee Wee Herman"

Occurred Today
1886 - The island volcano of Krakatoa in Indonesia erupts. It was heard over 3,000 miles away and was one of the biggest natural disasters ever recorded.

August 26

Today Is...

National Dog Day

National Toilet Paper Day
(...And there really ARE MANY cool things you can do with toilet paper!)

Women's Equality Day

National Cherry Popsicle Day (Yum!)

Tug-of-War Day (Last Wednesday)
(Which is fitting to match with National Dog Day, I've had some fantastic Tug-Of-War games with pooches I've known!)

August 25

Today Is...

Kiss and Make Up Day Day (relationships)

National Park Service Day (nature)

National Second-hand Wardrobe Day (clothes)

National Whiskey Sour Day   (Also observed on 29th) (drink)

August 24

National Peach Pie Day (food)

International Strange Music Day (music)

Pluto Demoted Day (astronomy)

National Waffle Day (food)

Knife Day

Vesuvius Day (history)

Wayzgoose Day

William Wilberforce Day



A wayzgoose was at one time an entertainment given by a master printer to his workmen each year on or about St Bartholomew's Day (24 August). It marked the traditional end of summer and the start of the season of working by candlelight. Later, the word came to refer to an annual outing and dinner for the staff of a printing works or the printers on a newspaper.b

August 23

International Day For The Remembrance of The Slave Trade & Its Abolition (history)

Go Topless Day (The Sunday closest to August 26 - Women's Equality Day) (women)

Ride the Wind Day (activity)

National Sponge Cake Day (food)

Valentino Day (person)

~~ I would love to "pop the top" and go driving through Heins today, but can't drive with this broken wrist and cast I have

August 22

International Tongue Twister Day (language)

Eat a Peach Day (food)

Be An Angel Day (spiritual)

Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day (seasonal)

Take Your Cat To The Vet Day (animals)

National Tooth Fairy Day (myth)


Hard Tongue Twisters

Hard Tongue Twister Phrases

* A big bug bit a bold bald bear and the bold bald bear bled blood badly.
* Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons -- Balancing them badly.
* Can you can a canned can into an uncanned can like a canner can can a canned can into an uncanned can?
* If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
* Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.
* The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
(This is the World's Hardest Tongue Twister, according the Guiness Book of World Records.)

Hard Tongue Twister Poems

I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's mate,
And I'm only plucking pheasants 'cause the pheasant plucker's late.
I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's son,
And I'm only plucking pheasants till the pheasant pluckers come.

A tutor who tooted the flute
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot
Said the two to the tutor
"Is it tougher to toot
Or to tutor two tooters to toot?"

Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.
The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed
Shilly-shallied south.
These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack;
Sheep should sleep in a shed.

Three sweet switched Swiss witches
Watch three washed Swiss witch Swatch watch switches.
Which sweet switched Swiss witch watches
Which washed Swiss witch Swatch watch switch?

Theophilus Thadeus Thistledown,
The succesful thistle-sifter,
While sifting a sieve-full of unsifted thistles,
Thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.

Now, if Theophilus Thadeus Thistledown,
The succesful thistle-sifter,
Thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb,
See that thou, while sifting a sieve-full of unsifted thistles,
Thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.

August 21

National Poet's Day (hobby, people)

National Pecan Torte Day (food)

National Spumoni Day (food)

Senior Citizen's Day (people)

Hug Your Boss Day (people)

Men's Grooming Day  (3rd Friday)(appearance)

Today is the day to give your boss a hug!
If they're a senior citizen,  stay and hug them twice!!
If they get angry for this, write them out a poem
Then sit and share Spumoni, and tell them why they're nice!

August 20

Lemonade Day (drink)

National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day (food)

Ecological Debt Day (nature)

National Radio Day (technology)

World Mosquito Day (animal)





On this date in 1882, Tchaikovsky's “1812 Overture” debuted in Moscow.

I love that music! I love hearing DSO performing it in Greenfield Village as fireworks blast off! Beautiful!

And YAY! for National Radio Day :) I've got great memories listening to CKLW and SuperMax Kinkle, WNIC and Alan Almond, Coast To Coast (for the awesome and always interesting  George Nory!

August 15

Best Friends Day (people) (Also celebrated on June 8)

National Relaxation Day (health)

International Geocaching Day (hobby) (3rd Saturday)

National Failures Day (mentality)

Lemon Meringue Pie Day (food)

Chauvin Day (history)

Assumption Of Mary Day (religion)

Check The Chip Day (Those Implanted in Pets) (animals)

International Homeless Animals Day (3rd Saturday) (animals)

World Honey Bee Day (3rd Saturday) (animals)

AUGUST

AUGUST BIRTHSTONE: Peridot 
AUGUST FLOWER:
FULL MOON NAME: 
Northern or Southern Hemisphere After the summer solstice:
Thunder Moon, or Hay Moon
Green Corn Moon, or Grain Moon
Fruit Moon, or Harvest Moon
Northern Hemisphere:  Green Corn Moon, Grain Moon
Southern Hemisphere: Snow Moon, Storm Moon, Hunger Moon, Wolf Moon
Admit You're Happy Month
Family Fun Month
National Catfish Month
National Eye Exam Month
National Golf Month
Peach Month
Romance Awareness Month
Water Quality Month
National Picnic Month
Weekly Events:

Week 1 National Simplify your Life Week
Week 2 National Smile Week
Week 3 Friendship Week
Week 4 Be Kind to Humankind Week

August Monthly Observances
American Adventures Month
American Artists Appreciation Month
American Indian Heritage Month Link  (See also November)
American History Essay Contest (8/1 - 12/15)
Black Business Month
Boomers Making A Difference Month
Bystander Awareness Month
Children's Eye Health & Safety Month
Child Support Awareness Month
Children's Vision & Learning Month
Get Ready for Kindergarten Month
Happiness Happens Month
Motor Sports Awareness Month
National Breastfeeding Month
National Catfish Month
National Goat Cheese Month
National Immunization Awareness Month
National Panini Month
National Minority Donor Awareness Month
National Read A Romance Month
National Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
National Traffic Awareness Month
National Truancy Prevention Month
National Water Quality Month
National Win With Civility Month
Neurosurgery Outreach Month
Psoriasis Awareness Month
Rye Month
Shop Online For Groceries Month
Tomboy Tools Month
What Will Be Your Legacy Month
World Mutt-i-grees Rescue Month

August Weekly Observances
*International Clown Week: 1-7
National Scrabble Week: 1-5
*Simplify Your Life Week: 1-7
*World Breastfeeding Week: 1-7
Assistance Dog Week: 2-8  (Starts on the First Sunday)
Exercise With Your Child Week: 2-8
Knights of Columbus Family Week: 2-8
National Farmers' Market Week: 2-8
National Fraud Awareness Week: 2-8
(This is sponsored by the FCC and has to do with phone & mail fraud.)
National Psychic Week: 2-8   (First full week)
Single Working Women's Week: 2-8
 (Always on the week that has 8/4 in it. Some years it begins in July.)
Stop on Red Week:2-8
National Bargain Hunting Week: 3-8  (First Mon.-Sun Week)
Old Fiddler's Week: 3-8
Psychic Week: 3-7  (First full week)
Sturgis Rally: 3-9
*Rock for Life Week: 4-7
Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow: 5-8
National Hobo Week: 6-9
Gay Games: 8-15
National Motorcycle Week: 9-15  (2nd Week)
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week: 9-15  (Always 2nd Week)
National Resurrect Romance Week: 9-15 (2nd  Full Week)
Elvis Week: 10-16
Weird Contest Week: 10-14 (Second Week)
*National Aviation Week: 15-21  (Always week of Orville Wright's Birthday on  19th)
*Minority Enterprise Development Week: 18-24
National Massage Therapy Week: 19-23
National Return To Work Week: 23-29
National Safe at Home Week: 23-29 (Last M-F Week)
*Be Kind To Humankind Week: 25-31
National Chuck Wagon Races: 28-30