August 20th is

International Homeless
Animals Day *

National Lemonade Day *

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National Honey Bee Day *

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National Radio Day

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Estonia – Independence Restoration Day

Hungary – Saint Stephen’s Day

Morocco – Revolution Day

Netherlands – Amsterdam:
    Straf Werk (Electronic Dance/Music)

United States –
  Beverly Hills CA:
    Eat/See/Hear Movie Festival
  Oakland CA: Art + Soul Oakland
  New York City NY:
Summer Streets
  Virginia Beach VA:
Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival
  Milwaukee WI:
Journal Sentinel Zoo a la Carte

Western Sahara – Revolution Day

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On This Day in HISTORY

1000 – Future saint King Stephen founds the Hungarian state

1741 – Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovered Alaska

MORE! ‘1812’ Overture, Tucson AZ and the Rolling Stones, click

1775 – Spanish establish Presidio San Augustin del Tucson,  present-day Tucson AZ

1866 – The National Labor Union advocated an 8-hour workday in the U.S.

1882 – Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” debuted in Moscow

1885 – American premiere of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado in NYC

1910 – The “Big Burn” destroys 3 million acres of Washington, Idaho and Montana

1920 – First commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ) goes on the air in Detroit MI

1940 – Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky attacked with an ice ax by a KGB agent, and dies the following day

1960 – Senegal breaks from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence

1964 – LBJ signs $1 billion “war on poverty” Economic Opportunity Act

1965 – The Rolling Stones release single “Satisfaction” in the U.S.

1967 – NY Times reviews Dolby noise reduction record and tape recording process

1968 – Soviet-dominated Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslovakia, crushing Prague Spring

1977 – NASA launches Voyager 2 spacecraft, carrying a 12 inch copper phonograph record with greetings in dozens of languages, music and sounds of nature

1992 – Helen Jones, founds the International Society for Animal Rights, which sponsors International Homeless Animals Day *

1998 – Canada’s Supreme Court rules Quebec can’t secede without federal consent

2007 – Michael Holthouse starts National Lemonade Day * in Houston, Texas, to celebrate the enterprise of America’s youth

2009 – First National Honey Bee Day * proposed by coalition of beekeepers to spread awareness of importance of bees and beekeeping. Proclaimed by U.S. Department of Agriculture, now occurs annually on the 3^rd Saturday in August

2015 – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigns over latest German economic bailout plan for the country.  Thanou-Christophilou, Court of Cassation president and Greece’s most senior judge, becomes the nation’s first female prime minister

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Visuals

• Honey Bee on honeycomb
• International flags
• Mission San Xavier del Bac, Tucson
• Lemonade Stand