August 18th is

Bad Poet’s Day

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Fajita Day – New for 2016!

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Mail Order Catalog Day

Serendipity Day *

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Rakhi, Hindu Brother -Sister Festival, celebrated as Raksha Bandhan or Rakhi Purnima in India, and Janai Purnima in Nepal

Brazil – Rio de Janiero: Olympic Triathlon
(Road Closure/Truck Ban Holiday)

Norway – Trondheim:
Pstereo Festival opens

U.S. –
Pittsburgh PA:  Little Italy Days
Elkins WV: Camp Barefoot Festival opens

Wales – Brecon Beacons:
Green Man opens

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On This Day in HISTORY

1612 – In England at Lancashire Assizes, 8 of 9 ‘Pendle Witches’ are found guilty

1735 – Boston’s ‘Evening Post’ newspaper begins publication

MORE! Abe Lincoln, 19th Amendment, and the Doobie Brothers, click

1750 – Composer Antonio Salieri was born

1894 – U.S. Bureau of Immigration established by Congress – now U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

1914 – President Wilson issues “Proclamation of Neutrality” for U.S. at WWI start

1916 – Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace, Sinking Spring Farm, made National Historic Site

1919 – The ‘Anti-Cigarette League of America’ forms in Chicago IL

1920 – U.S. Constitution’s 19^th Amendment is ratified, giving women the right to vote

1937 – First FM radio station permit issued in Boston MA

1938 –  FDR at opening of  Thousand Islands Bridge connecting U.S. and Canada

1958 –  Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “Lolita”  published

1962 – Peter, Paul & Mary release “If I Had A Hammer”

1963 – James Meredith is first black man to graduate from University of Mississippi

1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 sends first photographs of Earth taken from moon orbit to Earth

1973 – “China Grove” released by the Doobie Brothers

1977 – Anti-Apartheid activist Steven Biko arrested in South Africa – later dies from injuries while in custody

1997 – Beth Ann Hogan becomes first woman to attend Virginia Military Institute (VMI)

2010 –First ‘Serendipity Day’ * established to celebrate life’s happy surprises

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Visuals

• Fajitas
• International Flags
• First known photograph of Abe Lincoln, circa 1847, when he was about 38 years old
• First picture of Earth taken from moon orbit