August 19th is
National Aviation Day *
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International Orangutan Day
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U.N. World Humanitarian Day *
World Photography Day
National Hot and Spicy Food Day
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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS
Afghanistan – Independence Day
Australia –Borroloola Show Day
Finland – Helsinki Festival
Nepal – Kathmandu Valley:
Gai Jatra (Hindu Cow Festival)
Scotland – Edinburgh:
International Book Festival
South Africa – Women’s Day
United States –
Lebanon PA: Gem Miner’s Jubilee
Oxnard CA: Salsa Festival
Seattle WA: Hemp Fest
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On This Day on HISTORY
295 BC – Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges, as curule aedile (city of Rome official charged with maintaining public buildings, regulating festivals and maintaining order), levies enough disorderly conduct fines on noble Roman matrons to build a Temple to Venus
1692 – Five people found guilty of witchcraft executed by hanging in Massachusetts colony, including John Proctor, who with his wife Elizabeth, was used by Arthur Miller as major characters in his play The Crucible. Elizabeth was given a stay of execution because she was pregnant, then released after witch hysteria died down.
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1839 – Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre unveils his daguerreotype photographic process to the French Académie des Sciences at a Paris meeting
1848 – The New York Herald reports the discovery of gold in California
1856 – Gail Borden patents his process of condensing milk by vacuum
1883 – Coco Chanel, influential French designer of Chanel suit and the ‘little black dress,’ is born
1929 – The radio program “Amos and Andy” debuts on NBC
1934 – Adolf Hitler becomes Fuehrer of Germany
1939 – FDR issues presidential proclamation designating Orville Wright’s birthday as National Aviation Day *
1940 – New Civil Aeronautics Administration awards Orville Wright honorary license #1
1960 – American U-2 pilot Gary Powers is convicted of espionage in Moscow
1997 – Fleetwood Mac reunion album The Dance is released
2008 – First U.N. World Humanitarian Day *– established on anniversary of Baghdad Canal Hotel bombing in 2003 where U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Sérgio Vieira del Mello was killed
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Visuals
- Borneo Orangutan
- International flags
- Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre
- Coco Chanel (in Chanel suit and hat) making adjustment
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