August 9th is
National Book Lover’s Day*
National Veep Day
Rice Pudding Day
International Day of World’s Indigenous People
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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS
China – Hong Kong:
Qi Xi Festival (7 Sisters)
Grenada – Carnival Tuesday
Singapore – National Day
South Africa – Women’s Day
Sri Lanka – Kandy:
Esala Perahera (Tooth Fest)
Suriname: Dag der Ihheemsen
(Indigenous People’s Day)
United States – Providence, RI:
Rhode Island International Film Festival
Zimbabwe – Defense Forces Day
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On This Day in HISTORY
1173 – Construction begins on cathedral campanile, now called Leaning Tower of Pisa
1483 – First Mass celebrated in the Sistine Chapel in Rome
1790 – Columbia returns to Boston from 3 year voyage, first ship to carry American flag around the world
1831 – First steam locomotive leaves Schenectady for Albany in New York state
1854 – Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden
1859 – Nathan Ames patents the escalator
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1892 – Thomas Edison patents a two-way telegraph
1899 – P.L. Travers born, Australian author of Mary Poppins books
1910 – A. J. Fisher patents the electric washing machine
1930 – Betty Boop debuts in “Dizzy Dishes” created by Max Fleischer
1936 – Jesse Owens wins fourth gold medal at Berlin Olympics, first American to win 4 medals in single Olympics
1942 – British forces in Bombay arrest Gandhi, Quit India Movement takes off
1944 – U.S. Forest Service and Wartime Advertising Council debut “Smokey the Bear”
1945 – U.S. drops Fat Man atomic bomb on Nagasaki, 3 days after Hiroshima, killing 74,000 people. In U.S., first network television broadcast announces the bombing
1956 – Alabama launches the first statewide, state-supported educational TV network
1965 – Singapore expelled from the Malaysian Federation
1969 – Charles Manson followers murder Sharon Tate and four others
1969 – Sly and the Family Stone release single “Hot Fun in the Summertime”
1973 – U.S. Senate committee investigating Watergate scandal files suit against Nixon
1974 – U.S. Vice President Gerald Ford becomes President after Richard Nixon is only President to resign. Veep Day, honoring Constitution’s Article II, Section 1, Clause 6
1982 – United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations first meets. In 1994, UN General Assembly established International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces support for federal funding of limited medical research on embryonic stem cells
2004 – Donald Duck receives 2,257th star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
2004 – Trump Hotel and Casino Resorts announces filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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*A recent study of people over 50 comparing those who did not read books with those who read for at least 3 1/2 hours a week found that book readers lived an average of almost two years longer than those who did not read at all.
National Book Lover’s Day
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Visuals
- Heart of the Book
- International Flags
- Leaning Tower of Pisa
- Fire Prevention posters
- Boy with big books
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Glad you worked in that plug for book reading. Reading books is better than watching TV or fiddling with a smart phone any day.
As a compulsive reading, I had no choice – put the printed word in front of me, even on a cereal box, and I must read it. Books have ever been my friends, my solace and my delight!
Thanks, it’s good to know I’m not the only one who reads cereal boxes. My ex could never understand why I would read a book more than once. A good story is a good story, it doesn’t matter how many times you’ve read it before.
My most favorites, I re-read every few years, and always discover something new.