August 22nd is

Be an Angel Day *

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Eat a Peach Day

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National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Brazil – Rio de Janiero:
Olympics clean-up/recovery holiday

Fiji – National Holiday:
Olympic Team Homecoming

India – state of Assam:
Tithi Sri Sri Madhav Deva

United States –
Seattle WA: Arts in Nature Festival

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On This Day in HISTORY

1485 – Death of English King Richard III at Battle of Bosworth Field

1639 – British East India Company founds city of Madras India as trading center

1642 – King Charles I calls Parliament traitors, starts English Civil War

MORE! America’s Cup, Claude Debussy and Teddy Roosevelt, click

1762 – Anne Franklin becomes first U.S. female newspaper editor for Newport Mercury

1775 – King George III proclaims American colonies are in state of open rebellion

1791 – Haitian slave rebellion begins in Saint-Domingue

1846 – U.S. annexes New Mexico

1849 – Austria launches world’s first “air raid” sending pilotless balloons against city of Venice

1851 – Schooner America outraces Aurora to win trophy now known as America’s Cup

1862 – Composer Claude Debussy is born
(Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, L’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, conductor Charles Édouard Dutoit)

1864 – Twelve nations sign the first Geneva Convention

1865 – William Sheppard patents liquid soap

1902 – Teddy Roosevelt becomes first President to ride in an automobile in Hartford CT

1906 – Victor Talking Machine Company begins manufacture of  Victrolas, price $200

1910 – Japan formally annexes Korea

1932 – BBC ‘s first experimental television broadcast in England

1950 – Althea Gibson first black tennis player accepted at U.S. national competition

1964 – Martha & The Vandellas release “Dancing in the Streets”

1972 – Due to its racial policies, Rhodesia is asked to withdraw from Munich Olympics

1986 – Kerr-McGee settles Karen Silkwood nuclear contamination lawsuit for $1.38 million

1990 – Angry smokers block a Moscow street protesting summer-long cigarette shortage

1993 – Jayne Howard Feldman establishes Be an Angel Day * to encourage kindness

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Visuals

• Cat being examined at the vet
• International flags
• 1855 map showing alternate plan for dividing New Mexico territory
• Althea Gibson on August 22, 1950, at Forest Hills NY (AP photo)

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