ON THIS DAY: August 6, 2016

Posted on August 6, 2016 by

August 6th is

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Fresh Breath Day

Hangover Day

Mustard Day

Sandcastle Day

Root Beer Float Day

Wiggle Your Toes Day

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Andorra – Andorra La Vella Fesitval

Bolivia – National Dayinternational Flags

El Salvador –
Celebración del Divino Salvador del Mundo

Jamaica – Independence Day

Japan – Hiroshima Day

Netherlands –
Amsterdam: Dekmantel Festival

United States –
Bangor ME:  Rise Above Fest
Happy Valley OR: Pickathon
Millmont PA: Bear’s Picnic

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On This Day in HISTORY

1538 – Bogotá, Columbia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiméniez de Quesada

1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the U.S. Constitution are delivered to Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia PA

1809 – Alfred Tennyson, future British Poet Laureate and Lord, is born

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1825 – Bolivia splits off from Peru, gains independence from Spain

1861 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria

1890 – Auburn Prison, NY: Murderer William Kemmler first execution by electric chair

1911 – Lucille Ball, future star of I Love Lucy, is born

1912 – The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum

1940 – The Soviet Union illegally annexes Estonia

1942 – Netherlands Queen Wilhelmina is first reigning queen to address U.S. Congressional joint session.

1945 – The U.S. B-29 Enola Gay drops “Little Boy” atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. 70,000 people are killed instantly, thousands die over years from burns and radiation 

1960 – Cuba nationalizes all foreign-owned property

1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from Great Britain

1965 – LBJ signs the Voting Rights Act into law

1982 – American premiere of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” in NYC

 

1988 – NYC Tompkins Square Park Riot – police charge crowd protesting new park curfew, causing a riot, over 100 complaints of police brutality

1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases description of his idea for a World Wide Web

1991 – Takako Doi becomes first female speaker of Japan’s House of Representatives

1996 – NASA says ALH 84001 meteorite contains evidence of primitive life-forms

2009 – Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed as first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice

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2012 – NASA’s Curiosity rover lands on surface of Mars

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Visuals

  • Sandcastle
  • International Flags
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson with quote from his poem Ulysses
  • Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

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Nona Blyth Cloud has lived and worked in the Los Angeles area for the past 45 years, spending much of that time commuting on the 405 Freeway. After Hollywood failed to appreciate her genius for acting and directing, she began a second career managing non-profits, from which she has retired. Nona has now resumed writing whatever comes into her head, instead of reports and pleas for funding. She lives in a small house overrun by books with her wonderful husband and a bewildered Border Collie.
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2 Responses to ON THIS DAY: August 6, 2016

  1. pete9999 says:
    August 6, 2016 at 1:43 pm

    How can “fresh breath day” and “hangover day” be the same day?

  2. wordcloud9 says:
    August 6, 2016 at 4:26 pm

    First you drink beer on Beer Day (August 5), then you’re hung over on August 6 – Hangover Day and THEN you brush your teeth and gargle mouth wash – minty-Fresh Breath Day!

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