August 2 is
National Night Out
Ice Cream Sandwich Day
Take a Penny/Leave a Penny Day
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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS
Costa Rica – Our Lady of Los Angeles
India – Karkkadaka Vavu
Ireland –
Killorglin: Puck Fair
Macedonia – Iliden (Republic) Day
Scotland –
Glasgow: Merchant City Festival
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On This Day in HISTORY
338 BC – Phillip II’s Macedonians defeat combined forces of Athens and Thebes
216 BC – Hannibal’s Carthaginian army wins Battle of Cannae against Romans
1343 – Jean de Clisson’s husband is executed for treason without proof being presented. She sells her holdings, buys three warships, outfits them with black hulls and crimson sails, and becomes “The Lioness of Brittany,” ferocious pirate captain of the Black Fleet, seeking revenge against French King Phillip VI and the French nobles she blamed for her spouse’s death. She personally beheaded with an ax any French noble aboard a captured vessel. and always left one survivor to tell the tale.
1610 – Henry Hudson sails into the bay which will be named after him
1776 – Continental Congress delegates begin signing the Declaration of Independence
1790 – The first U.S. census begins
1798 – British Royal Navy under Horatio Nelson defeats Napoleon in Battle of the Nile
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1824 – Fifth Avenue is opened in New York City
1834 – Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor/Statue of Liberty designer, is born
1858 – The first mailboxes are installed along streets in Boston and New York City
1869 – Japan’s Shinōkōshō class system is abolished during Mejii Restoration
1870 – Tower Subway, world’s first underground tube railway, opens in London
1873 – Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating first cable car line in San Francisco
1876 – “Wild Bill” Hickok shot and killed in Deadwood, SD
1887 – Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire
1892 – Charles Wheeler patents the first escalator
1918 – Canada’s first general strike begins in Vancouver BC
1923 – V.P. Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S president when Warren G. Harding dies
1924 – James Baldwin, author of The Fire Next Time, is born
1929 – Fats Waller records “Ain’t Misbehavin”
1932 – Peter O’Toole, star of Lawrence of Arabia, is born
1934 – Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany
1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act effectively renders marijuana illegal
1939 – Albert Einstein signs letter to FDR urging U.S. atomic weapons research
1943 – Jewish uprising fails at Nazi Treblinka extermination camp
1962 – Robert Zimmerman legally changes his name to Bob Dylan
1964 – North Vietnamese may have fired on USS Maddox in Gulf of Tonkin
1989 – Pakistan is re-admitted to Commonwealth of Nations after democracy restored
1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, setting off the Gulf War
2007 – Mattel recalls almost a million Chinese-made toys because of lead contaminants
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Visuals
- Pile of pennies
- International flags
- The Black Fleet of Jean de Clisson, “The Lioness of Brittany”
- “The Destruction of L’Orient at the Battle of the Nile” by George Arnald (1827)
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England - Page 2 Albert Einstein Letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
08/02/1939 President’s Secretary’s Files, Safe File: Alexander Sachs
FDR Library - A Clay Street Railroad cable car circa 1887
- Mattel Toy Recalls 2007