August Holiday Sites
August has no major holidays, but it has some significant anniversaries and birthdays. For example, did you know, that except for October (six), August and November tie for having the most presidential birthdays (five)?
August is:
National Peach Month (http://www.scpeach.com/museum.htm)
National Catfish Month (http://www.planetcatfish.com/)
National Picnic Month (http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodpicnics.html)
National Golf Month (http://www.golf.com/golf/).
So have a picnic with catfish and peach pie on the menu. Then go play some golf.
August holidays, birthdays, and commemorations:
August 1, 1780: birth date of Francis Scott Key
(http://www.francisscottkey.org/)
August 1, 1981: MTV debuted
(http://www.mtv.com/)
August 4, 1961: birth date of Barack Obama
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/President_Obama/)
August 5, 1876: birth date of Mary Beard
(http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/beard.html)
August 7: National Lighthouse Day
(www.lighthousefoundation.org/museum/natllighthouseday_info.htm)
August 10, 1874: birth date of Herbert Hoover
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/HerbertHoover/)
August 13, 1818: birth date of Lucy Stone
(http://www.womenshistory.about.com/od/stonelucy/a/lucy_stone.htm)
August 13, 1860: birth date of Annie Oakley
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/oakley/)
August 14 / 15, 1945: V-J (or Victory) Day
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3LyuWg8QTo)
August 17, 1786: birth date of Davy Crockett
(http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/davycrockett.html)
August 18: Bad Poetry Day
(http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/August/badpoetryday.htm)
August 19, 1871: birth date of Orville Wright
(http://www.wright.nasa.gov/orville.htm)
August 19, 1964: birth date of Bill Clinton
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/williamjclinton/)
August 20, 1833: birth date of Benjamin Harrison
(www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/benjaminharrison/)
August 21, 1959: Hawaii admitted as 50th state
(http://hawaii.gov/statehood)
August 24, 79 A.D.: eruption of Mount Vesuvius
(http://www.vesuvioinrete.it/e_index.htm)
August 26: Woman’s Equality Day
(http://womenshistory.about.com/od/wed/Womens_Equality_Day_August_26.htm)
August 27: Just Because Day
(http://holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/August/justbecauseday.htm)
August 27, 1908: birth date of Lyndon B. Johnson
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/lyndonjohnson/)
August 28, 1749: birth date of Goethe
(http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/237027/Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe)
