August Events Calendar for Educators
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August Events 2025
This page includes Birthdays and Special Goings-On!
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 Holling C. Holling First Income Tax Congress enacts first income tax in 1861. First Lincoln Penny Issued In 1909. 2 |
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Columbus Set Sail on his 1st Voyage In 1492. Author Mary Calhoun born 1926 3 |
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Barbara Cooney born, 1917 Alfred Lord Tennyson born, 1809 Odie's Birthday (Garfield the Cat's friend) Wiggle Your Toes Day 6 |
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Dollar Day The Continental (U.S.) Congress established monetary system in 1786. Mimeograph machine patented by Thomas Edison in 1876 8 |
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Don Freeman born, 1908 Author Alex Haley's Birthday, 1921. The last total solar eclipse of the millennium (1999) 11 |
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Annie Oakley Born in 1860. International Left-Hander's Day National Filet Mignon Day Fall of the Aztec Empire, 1512. 13 |
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Wizard of Oz Hollywood premier in 1939. Brinton Turkle born, 1915 Julia Child Born in Pasadena, California in 1912. Transcontinental Railroad completed, 1869. 15 |
International Homeless Animals Day Beatrice de Regniers born, 1914 Roller Coaster Day Roller coaster patented in 1898. 16 |
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Louis Fatio born, 1904 Bad Poetry Day 18 |
Bill Clinton Born in Hope, Arkansas in 1946. Orville Wright Born in 1871. Potato Day Snuffleupagus's Birthday (Sesame Street Character) 19 |
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First Photograph of Earth From the Moon Taken by Lunar Orbiter in 1966. National Sponge Cake Day First National Women's Rights Convention, 1850. 23 |
National Peach Pie Day International Strange Music Day Waffle Iron Patented In 1869, invented by Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York. Mount Vesuvius Erupted, 79 A.D. In 1932, Amelia Earhart flew across the U.S. 24 |
Kiss and Make Up Day National Banana Split Day National Park Service Established 1916. 25 |
Women's Equality Day The anniversary of women getting the right to vote - the signing of the 19th Amendment, 1920. Mother Teresa Born in 1910 (Actual birthdate). 26 |
Mother Teresa Baptised in 1910. (Her self ascribed birthdate). 27 |
Roger Duvoisin born, 1904 Dream Day Martin Luther King Jr. gave the 'I Have a Dream' speech in 1963. National Cherry Turnover Day 28 |
First Scout Camp Opened In 1934. Michael Jackson born in Gary, Indiana in 1958. Speedy Gonzales Debuted in 1953. 29 |
Laurent de Brunhoff born, 1925 Herry Monster's Birthday (Sesame Street Character) National Toasted Marshmallow Day Thurgood Marshall took a seat on the Supreme Court, 1967. 30 |
Alan Jay Lerner Born in 1918, New York. Educator Maria Montessori's Birthday, 1870. 31 |
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Special Goings-On
Friendship Day (1st Sunday)
National Clown Week (1st Week)
Elvis Week (2nd Week)
National Apple Week (2nd Week)
National Smile Week (2nd Week)
Air Conditioning Appreciation Week (3rd Week)
American Dance Week (3rd Week)
American Artist Appreciation Month
Foot Health Month
Home Business Month
National Catfish Month
National Golf Month
National Inventors Month
National Water Quality Month
