August 8^th is

Bowling Day

Dalek Day

Earth Over Shoot Day

Happiness Happens Day

International Cat Day

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Cambodia – Kazantip Republic Fest

Canada – (last day)
Salmo BC: Shambhala Music Festival

France – Lorient, Brittany
Festival Interceltique

Grenada – Carnival Monday

Tanzania – Wakulima ya Nane Nane

Zimbabwe – Heroes’ Day

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On This Day in HISTORY

1576 – Cornerstone laid for Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg observatory on the island of Hven

1709 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão shows lifting power of hot air at the court of King John V of Portugal to get support for his airship project

1794 – Joseph Whidbey’s expedition searches for the Northwest Passage in Alaska

1844 – Brigham Young is chosen as new leader of the Mormons

1876 – Thomas Edison patents his mimeograph

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1885 – More than 1.5 million people come to funeral of Ulysses S. Grant in NYC

1899 – A.T. Marshall patents the refrigerator

1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first public flight at a Le Mans, France racecourse

1929– The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight

1930 – Terry Nation, creator of the villainous Daleks on Doctor Who, is born. To honor him, his birthday is celebrated by Doctor Who fans as Dalek Day

1942 – Quit India Movement launched against British rule after Gandhi’s call for swaraj – complete independence for India

1945 – The London Charter is signed by France, the U.K., Soviet Union and U.S., establishing the laws and procedures for the Nuremberg Trials

1945 – U.S. President Truman signs the United Nations Charter

1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36, world’s first mass-produced aircraft designed to carry nuclear weapons – also first bomber with intercontinental range

1963 – The Great Train Robbery in England – 15 robbers steal £2.6 million

1969 – At London zebra crossing, photographer Iain Macmillan shoots the Beatles Abbey Road album cover photo

1970 – Janis Joplin buys a headstone for blues singer Bessie Smith’s grave

1974 – President Nixon announces his resignation from office on national TV broadcast

2000 – Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley raised after 136 year in the ocean floor

2006 – Andrew Simms and Global Footprint Network launch Earth Overshoot Day to mark the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year

2008 – The Summer Games of the XXIX Olympiad open in Beijing China

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Visuals

• Lots of Cats
• International Flags
• Depiction of Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg observatory
• Graf Zeppelin
• Dalek from Doctor Who
• Convair B-26 on right next to a B-29
• Fireworks at Beijing Summer Olympics

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