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MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
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MTV Debuted In 1981
Respect for Parents’
Day
Sport’s Day
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Australia Picnic Day
Betsy Byars born,
1928
Sea Serpent Day
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Japan Surrendered in
World War II, 1945
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First Lincoln-Douglas
Debate, 1858.
SOLAR ECLIPSE
10:00AM PST
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Dream Day, Martin
Luther King Jr. gave
the ‘I Have a Dream’
speech in 1963
Congress enacts first
income tax in 1861
First Lincoln Penny
Issued In 1909
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Dollar Day, US dollar
was created in 1786
Thomas Edison patent
for the mimeograph
machine, 1876
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National Relaxation
Day
Transcontinental
Railroad completed,
1869
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National Rice Pudding
Day
Smokey Bear’s
Birthday (1944)
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National Tell a Joke
Day
Roller Coaster Day,
Roller coaster pat-
ented in 1898
FRIDAY SATURDAY
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SUNDAY
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Coast Guard Day
Barack Obama born,
1961 (44th President)
National Mustard Day
Neil Armstrong born in
Ohio in 1930
American Family Day
Alfred Lord Tennyson
born, 1809
Wiggle Your Toes Day
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Play in the Sand Day
Last total solar eclipse
of the millennium
(1999)
IBM PC, 1981
Middle Children’s Day
Hawaii Annexed to the
U.S. (1898)
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Myra Cohn Livingston
born, 1926
Davy Crockett Born in
Tennessee in 1786
Louis Fatio born, 1904
Bad Poetry Day
Wizard of Oz
Premiered, 1939
Homeless Animals
Day
National Aviation Day
Potato Day
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Columbus Set Sail,
1492
National Watermelon
Day
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Herbert Hoover Born,
1874, West Branch,
Iowa.
S’Mores Day
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Be An Angel Day
Ann Franklin’s Birth-
day (1762) 1st female
newspaper editor
First Photo of Earth
From the Moon, 1966
First National Women’s
Rights Conv., 1850
International Strange
Music Day
National Waffle Day
Mount Vesuvius Erupt-
ed, 79 A.D.
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First Scout Camp
Opened, 1934
Michael Jackson Born,
1958
Thurgood Marshall
took a seat on the
Supreme Court, 1967
National Trail Mix Day
Educator Maria
Montessori’s Birthday,
1870
Kiss and Make Up
Day
National Park Service
Established 1916
Women’s Equality
Day
Mother Teresa Born,
1910
Left-Hander’s Day
National Filet Mignon
Day
Fall of Aztecs, 1512
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National Radio Day
Mosquito Day
Vitus Bering discov-
ered Alaska in 1741
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