August 5^th is

Oyster Day

Underwear Day

Work Like a Dog Day

Pink for a Purpose Day

International Beer Day

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World Festivals and National Holidays

Anguilla – Constitution Day

Brazil –
Rio de Janeiro: Municipal Holiday

Burkina Faso – Independence Day

Croatia – Victory and Thanksgiving  Day

El Salvador –
San Salvador: Fiesta de San Salvador

India – Hariyali  Teej

Rwanda – Umuganura

Scotland –
Edinburgh: Edinburgh Festival (1st day)

United States –
Twinsburg OH: Twins Days Festival

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On This Day in HISTORY

1305 – William Wallace is captured by the English near Glasgow

1620 – The Mayflower departs from Southhampton on first attempt to reach America

1824 – Constantine Kanaris leads Greek fleet to victory over Ottoman Empire at Samos

1861 – U.S. Army abolishes flogging

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1861 – U.S.  government levies first federal income tax as a wartime measure – 3% of all income over $800. Rescinded in 1872

1884 – Cornerstone of the Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe’s Island in NY Harbor

1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim – first long-distance auto trip

1914 – First electric traffic signal lights installed in Cleveland OH

1924 – NY Daily News debuted comic strip “Little Orphan Annie,” by Harold Gray

1944 – Polish insurgents free 348 Jewish prisoners from Warsaw German labor camp

1957 – American Bandstand makes its national network debut on ABC

1959 – Isley Brothers record “Shout”

1963 – Limited Test Ban Treaty signed by U.S., Britain, and Soviet Union. No nuclear tests in space, underwater, or the atmosphere

1966 – Groundbreaking for the original NY World Trade Center

1969 – NASA Mariner 7 space probe passes Mars, sending back photographs and scientific data

1974 – President Nixon says he expects to be impeached for ordering Watergate investigation halted

1986 – Artist Andrew Wyeth’s 240 drawings and paintings of  Helga Testorf  revealed

1989 – Five Central American presidents meet about dismantling Contra bases

1999 – Music by Johann Sebastian Bach thought to have been destroyed during WWII found in the Ukraine

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Visuals

• Pink for a Purpose logo
• International Flags
• Constantine Kanaris
• Little Orphan Annie first panel in debut strip
• Andrew Wyeth painting The Prussian (1973)

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