August 6th is
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
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
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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How can “fresh breath day” and “hangover day” be the same day?
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!