August Awareness and Observance Themes ● Admit You’re Happy Special Days with Varying Dates ● American Adventures ● Artist Appreciation Family Day (1st Sun.) ● Back To School Forgiveness Day (1st Sun.) ● Black Business Month Friendship Day (1st Sun.) ● Cactus International Assistance Dog Week (1st Sun.) ● Children’s Eye Health and Safety Kids Day (1st Sun.) ● Family Fun Sisters’ Day (1st Sun.) ● Get Ready for Kindergarten Farmers’ Market Week (1st full week) ● Golf Fraud Awareness Week (1st full week) ● Happiness Happens Psychic Week (1st full week) ● Hug Bargain Hunting Week begins * (1st Mon.) ● Immunization Awareness Night Out (1st Tues.) ● Inventors Braham Pie Day (1st Fri.) ● Minority Donor Awareness Mustard Day (1st Sat.) ● Motorsports Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week (2nd week) ● National Parks Smile Week (2nd week) ● Psoriasis Awareness Resurrect Romance Week (2nd full week) ● Science, Medicine, and Technology Umpire Appreciation Day (2nd Sun.) ● Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Weird Contest Week begins (2nd Mon.) ● Truancy Prevention Garage Sale Day (2nd Sat.) ● Water Quality Kool-Aid Days (2nd weekend) ● What Will Be Your Legacy Elvis Week (week with the 16th) ● Win with Civility Aviation Week (week with the 19th) Chef’s Appreciation Week (3rd week) Cupcake Day (3rd Mon.) Hug Your Boss Day (3rd Fri.) Food Themes Men’s Grooming Day (3rd Fri.) ● Catfish Geocaching Day (3rd Sat.) ● Celery Homeless Animals Day (3rd Sat.) ● Coffee World Honey Bee Day (3rd Sat.) ● Family Meals Daffodil Day (4th Fri.) ● Fennel Bat Weekend begins (last full weekend) ● Kiwifruit Neighborhood Day (last Sat.) ● Orange ● Panini ● Papaya ● Peach ● Picnic ● Sandwich

Aug. 1 Aug. 6 ● Armed Forces Day ● Actress/Comedian Lucille Ball born 1911 ● Clown Week begins ● Independence Day 1825 ● Colorado Statehood 1876 ● Scientist Alexander Fleming born 1881 ● Dahomey Independence Day 1960 ● Fresh Breath Day ● GI Joe action figure introduced 1964 ● Hiroshima Day ● Girlfriend’s Day ● Jamaica Independence Day 1962 ● Francis Scott Key born 1779 ● Root Beer Float Day ● Anne Frank made her last diary entry 1944 ● Sandwich invented 1762 ● Lammas Day ● Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson born 1808 ● Lughnasa ● Wiggle Your Toes Day ● Author Herman Melville born 1819 Aug. 7 ● Oxygen Discovered ● Ivory Coast Independence Day 1960 ● Raspberry Cream Pie Day ● Spy Marta Hari born 1876 ● Respect For Parents Day ● Lighthouse Day ● Rounds Resounding Day ● Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day ● Scrabble Week begins ● Professional Speakers Day ● Simplify Your Life Week begins ● Purple Heart Day ● Spiderman Day ● Sea Serpent Day ● Switzerland Independence Day 1291 Aug. 8 ● US Air Force Day ● Ornithologist Florence Merriam Bailey born ● Yorkshire Day 1863 Aug. 2 ● The Date to Create ● Escalator Patented 1892 ● Frozen Custard Day ● Author Holling C. Holling born 1900 ● Great Train Robbery 1963 ● Ice Cream Sandwich Day ● Happiness Happens Day ● Engineer Pierre Charles L’Enfant born 1754 ● Mimeograph Machine patented 1876 Aug. 3 ● Odie Day (Garfield’s dog) ● Columbus Set Sail 1492 ● Smokey the Bear Ad Campaign begins 1944 ● Panama Canal opened 1914 ● Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor’s ● Watermelon Day Porch Night Aug. 4 Aug. 9 ● Musician Louis Armstrong born 1901 ● Book Lover’s Day ● Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow ● Chinese Valentine’s Day / Daughter’s ● Mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton Festival born 1805 ● Electric Washing Machine patented 1910 ● President Barack Obama born 1961 ● Indigenous People Day ● Rock for Life Week begins ● International Art Appreciation Day ● US Coast Guard Day ● Scientist/Inventor Marvin Minsky born 1927 ● US Dept. of Energy created 1977 ● Singapore Independence Day 1965 ● World War 1 began 1918 ● Veep Day Aug. 5 ● Astronaut Neil Armstrong born 1930 ● Little Orphan Annie comic strip first appeared 1924 ● Upper Volta Independence Day 1960 ● Work Like A Dog Day

Aug. 10 Aug. 15 ● Duran Duran Appreciation Day ● Napoleon Bonaparte born 1769 ● Independence Day 1822 ● Chauvin Day ● President Herbert Hoover born 1874 ● Chef Julia Child born 1912 ● Lazy Day ● Chocolate Chip Day ● Missouri Statehood 1821 ● Independence Day 1947 ● Mount Rushmore Construction began 1927 ● Panama Canal opened 1914 ● President Richard Nixon resigned 1974 ● Relaxation Day ● Smithsonian Day (Institution established ● Republic of Congo Independence Day 1960 1846) ● South Korea Independence Day 1945 ● S’mores Day Aug. 16 ● Snoopy’s Birthday ● Airborne Day ● World Lion Day ● Cyprus Independence Day 1960 Aug. 11 ● Gold discovered in the Yukon 1896 ● Daughters and Sons Day ● Roller Coaster Patented 1898 ● Play In The Sand Day ● Tell a Joke Day ● Presidential Joke Day Aug. 17 Aug. 12 ● Berlin Wall Construction begins 1961 ● Echo 1 launched 1960 ● Black Cat Appreciation Day ● Glorious 12th/ Grouse Season begins ● Missionary William Carey born 1761 ● Middle Child Day ● Davy Crockett born 1786 ● 1st PC introduced 1981 ● Gabon Independence Day 1960 ● Model T Ford went on sale 1908 ● Indonesia Independence Day 1945 ● Phonograph invented 1877 ● Meaning of “Is” Day ● Vinyl Record Day ● Thrift Shop Day ● World Elephant Day ● Wrench patented 1835 ● Youth Day Aug. 18 Aug. 13 ● Afghanistan Independence Day 1919 ● Bambi first premiered 1934 ● Bad Poetry Day ​ ● Author/Film Director Alfred Hitchcock born ● Virginia Dare born 1587 1899 ● Explorer Meriwether Lewis born 1744 ● Lefthander’s Day ● Mail Order Catalog Day ● Annie Oakley born 1860 Aug. 19 Aug. 14 ● Aviation Day ● Creamsicle Day ● “Black Cow” Root Beer Float Day ● Navajo Code Talkers Day ● President Bill Clinton born 1946 ● Independence Day 1947 ● Hot and Spicy Food Day ● V-J Day/World War 2 ends 1945 ● Potato Day ● Wiffle Ball invented 1953 ● Root Beer Float Day ● Wizard of Oz premiered 1939 ● Inventor Orville Wright Born 1867 ​ ● Woodstock Music Festival 1969 ● World Humanitarian Day ● World Lizard Day ● World Orangutan Day Aug. 20 ● Civil War ends 1866 (US) ● President Benjamin Harrison born 1833 ● Radio Day ● Viking 1 launched 1975 ● Voyager 2 launched 1977 ● World Mosquito Day

Aug. 21 Aug. 27 ● Gemini 5 launched 1965 ● Julius Caesar lands in Britain 55 BC ● Hawaii Statehood 1959 ● Chemist/Engineer Carl Bosch born 1909 ● Mona Lisa Stolen 1911 ● The Duchess Who Wasn’t Day (Author ● Poet’s Day Margaret Wolfe Hungerford) ● Senior Citizen’s Day ● Global Forgiveness Day Aug. 22 ● President Lyndon B. Johnson born 1908 ● Be an Angel Day ● Just Because Day ● Eat a Peach Day ● 1st Tarzan story published 1912 ​ ​ ● Hoodie Hoo Day (Southern Hemisphere) Aug. 28 ● Tooth Fairy Day ● Bow Tie Day Aug. 23 ● Cherry Turnover Day ● Day For The Remembrance of The Slave ● Crackers Over the Keyboard Day Trade & Its Abolition ● Dream Day (Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a ● Ride the Wind Day Dream” speech 1963) ● Valentino Day ● Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day Aug. 24 ● Radio Commercials Day ● St. Bartholomew's Day ● Author Leo Tolstoy born 1828 ● US Capitol Building and White House burned Aug. 29 1814 ● According to Hoyle Day ● Mt. Vesuvius Erupted 79 AD ● Day Against Nuclear Tests ● Pluto Demoted 2006 ● Engineer Charles Franklin Kettering born ● Strange Music Day 1876 ● Waffle Iron Patented 1869 / Waffle Day ● More Herbs, Less Salt Day Aug. 25 ● Sarcoidosis Awareness Day ● Banana Split Day Aug. 30 ● Be Kind to Humankind Week begins ● Author/Illustrator Donald Crews born 1938 ● Inventor Joshua Lionel Cowen born 1877 ● Frankenstein Day (Author Mary Shelly born ● Ivan the Terrible born 1530 1797) ● Kiss and Make Up Day ● Holistic Pet Day ● Notting Hill Carnival ● Slinky Day ● Second-hand Wardrobe Day ● Toasted Marshmallow Day ● Independence Day 1825 ● Whale Shark Day Aug. 26 Aug. 31 ● Inventor Lee DeForest born 1873 ● Kinetoscope patented 1887 ● Dog Day ● Love Lawyers Day ● Chemist Antoine Lavoisier born 1743 ● Independence Day 1957 ● Mother Teresa born 1910 ● Pony Express Day ● Women’s Equality Day ● Princess Diana killed 1997 ● 1st Solar Power Car demonstrated 1955 ● Trail Mix Day ● Trinidad and Tobago Independence Day 1962