Themes of the Month
AUGUST
IS:
American Adventures Month
Get Ready for Kindergarten Month
National Golf Month
National
Inventors Month
National Catfish Month
1st
week-National Clown Week
2nd week-National Apple Week
2nd week-National Smile Week
3rd week-National Air Conditioning Appreciation Week
3rd week-American Dance Week
SPECIAL DAYS TO
CELEBRATE:
1 Solar Eclipse
1 Spider-Man Debuted
2 National Ice Cream Sandwich Day
3 Columbus Set Sail on his 1st voyage in 1942
5 Sisters Day
8
Beijing
Olympics Begin
13 National Left-Handers Day
14 Yukon discovered
17 Sandcastle Day
18 Bad Poetry Day
23 First Photograph of Earth From the Moon
28 Dream Day: Martin Luther King Jr. gave the I have a Dream
speech in 1963
BIRTHDAYS:
1 Francis Scott Key
2 James Howe
5 Neil Armstrong
8 Matthew Henson, arctic explorer
10 Herbert Hoover
13 Annie Oakley
17 Davy Crockett
30 Laurent de Brunhoff
30 Donald Crews