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August 1, 2018
Your Local News Source for 48 Years
The
Portland Observer Newspaper
C alendar
August 2018
SUNDAY
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
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6
American Family Day
Neil Armstrong born
in Ohio in 1930.
Robert Bright born,
1902
Australia Picnic Day
Wiggle Your Toes
Day
12
13
IBM PC made, 1981
Middle Children’s Day
Hawaii Annexed to
the U.S. (1898)
19
National Aviation Day
Bill Clinton Born in
Hope, Arkansas in
1946.
Potato Day
27
Mother Teresa
Baptised in 1910
(Her self ascribed
birthdate)
International Left-
Hander’s Day
National Filet Mi-
gnon Day
20
National Radio Day
Mosquito Day
Vitus Bering dis-
covered Alaska in
1741.
28
Dream Day Martin
Luther King Jr.
gave the ‘I Have a
Dream’ speech in
1963
7
Sea Serpent Day
14
National Creamsicle
Day
Japan Surrendered
in World War II,
1945
21
Wilt Chamberlain
Born in 1936 in
Philadelphia, PA
First Lincoln-Doug-
las Debate, 1858
29
First Scout Camp
Opened In 1934
Michael Jackson
Born in Gary, Indi-
ana in 1958
1
2
MTV Debuted, 1981
Respect for Parents’
Day
Sport’s Day
First Income Tax,
Congress enacts first
income tax in 1861.
National Ice Cream
Sandwich Day
8
9
Dollar Day; US dollar
was created, 1786
Thomas Edison pat-
ented mimeograph
machine in 1876
National Rice Pud-
ding Day
Smokey Bear’s Birth-
day (1944)
15
16
National Relaxation
Day
Transcontinental
Railroad complet-
ed, 1869
National Tell a Joke
Day
Roller Coaster Day
Roller coaster
patented, 1898
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
3
National Watermel-
on Day
Mary Calhoun
10
S’Mores Day
4
National Mustard Day
Coast Guard Day
Barack Obama born,
1961 (44th U.S.
President)
11
Play in the Sand Day
The last total solar
eclipse of the mil-
lennium (1999)
17
Myra Cohn Living-
ston born, 1926
23
24
25
First Photograph
of Earth From the
Moon Taken, 1966.
First National Wom-
en’s Rights Conven-
tion, 1850
National Peach Pie
Day
International Strange
Music Day
National Waffle Day
Kiss and Make Up Day
National Banana
Split Day
National Park Service
Established 1916
30
31
National Toasted
Marshmallow Day
Thurgood Marshall
took a seat on the
Supreme Court, 1967
National Trail Mix
Day
Educator Maria
Montessori’s Birth-
day, 1870
18
International Home-
less Animals Day
Bad Poetry Day
Wizard of Oz Pre-
miered In 1939
26
Women’s Equality
Day