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July 18, 2018
Your Local News Source for 48 Years
The
Portland Observer Newspaper
C alendar
July 2018
SUNDAY
1
Build a Scarecrow Day
Canada Day
International Joke Day
National Postal
Worker Day
8
Barn Day
Liberty Bell Cracks
In 1835
Video Games Day
15
Cow Appreciation
Day
First Boeing 707 Flew
In 1954
22
Pied Piper of
Hamelin Day
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
2
CARICOM Day
First Zeppelin Flight
in 1900
9
National Sugar Cook-
ie Day
16
Apollo 11 Lifts Off
on its voyage to the
moon in 1969
23
Robert Quakenbush
born, 1929
Ice Cream Cone In-
troduced In 1904
29
NASA Established in
1958
National Lasagna Day
30
National Cheesecake
Day
3
4
Independence Day
Dog Days Begin
National Country
Music Day
10
Martin Provensen
born, 1916
Teddy Bear’s Picnic
Day
17
Karla Kuskin born,
1932
Disneyland Opens In
1955
24
Amelia Earhart Day
Marvin the Martian
First debuted in
cartoons in 1948
31
First US Patent Issued
Granted to Samuel
Hopkins in 1790
11
E.B. White born,
1899
Cheer Up the Lonely
Day
18
National Caviar Day
25
Thread the Needle
Day
5
P.T. Barnum born,
1810
12
Battle of the Boyne
Paper Bag Day
19
Stick Your Tongue
Out Day
26
Jan Berenstain born,
1923
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
6
First Picture Postcard
Made
National Fried
Chicken Day
National Kissing Day
7
Macaroni Day
13
Go West Day
National French Fries
Day
20
Moon Day (First
landing on the
moon)
International Chess
Day
27
Scott Corbett born,
1913
14
Bastille Day
21
National Junk Food
Day
28
Natalie Babbitt born,
1932
First Fingerprint
taken