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A u g u s t 27, 2014
C alendar August
MONDAY
11
Play in the Sand Day
Author Alex Haley's
Birthday, 1921.
The last total solar
eclipse of the
millennium (1999)
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
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14
IBM PC Announced
inl981.
Middle Children's Day
Hawaii Annexed to
the U.S. (1898)
International Left-
Hander's Day
National Filet Mignon
Day
Fall of the Aztec
Empire, 1512
Alice Provensen bom,
1917
National Creamsicle
Day
Japan Surrendered in
World W arll, 1945
18
19
Louis Fatio bom, 1904
Bad Poetry Day
Wizard of Oz Pre
miered In 1939
National Aviation Day
Potato Day
Snuffleupagus's
Birthday (Sesame
Street Character)
25
26
Kiss and Make Up
Day
National Banana Split
Day
National Park Service
Established 1916
Women's Equality
Day The anniversary
of women getting the
right to vote - the
signing of the 19th
Amendment, 1920
20
National Radio Day
Mosquito Day
Vitus Bering discov
ered Alaska in 1741
27
Mother Teresa Bom
in 1910
FRIDAY
15
National Relaxation
Day
Transcontinental
Railroad completed,
1869
2014
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
16 3
Homeless Animals
Day
National Tell a Joke
Day
Roller Coaster Day
21
22
23
Wilt Chamberlain
Bom in 1936 in
Philadelphia, PA.
First Lincoln-Douglas
Debate, 1858
Be An Angel Day
Ann Franklin's
Birthday (1762) First
female newspaper
editor
First Photograph of
Earth From the Moon
Taken in 1966
First National
Women’s Rights
Convention, 1850
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29
Dream Day Martin
Luther King Jr. gave
the 'I Have a Dream'
speech in 1963.
National Cherry
Turnover Day
First Scout Camp
Opened In 1934.
Michael Jackson Bom
tin 1958.
Speedy Gonzales
Debuted in 1953
30
Laurent de Brunhoff
bom, 1925
Herry Monster's
Birthday (Sesame
Street Character)
17
Myra Cohn
Livingston bom,
1926
Davy Crockett Bom in
Tennessee in 1786.
24
National Peach Pie
Day
International Strange
Music Day
National Waffle Day
31
Alan Jay Lerner Bom
in 1918,NewYork.
National Trail Mix Day
Educator Maria
M ontessori's
Birthday, 1870.