Aug. 1. Lammas or Lughnasadh. The wheel of the year begins to shift from growing time to harvest time. / Swiss National Day (Switzerland) / Civic Holiday (Canada) / Girlfriend's Day (U.S.) How serious can this one be if Mega-Omni Corp hasn't latched on to it to squeeze money out of us yet? / World Scout Day (Scouting). / As of today, MTV is 30 years old, if we had know than what we know now.
Lammas
Aug. 2. National Pretty is As Pretty Does Day (U.S.) Okay, whatever. / as of today the Lincoln penny is 102 years old.
Aug. 3. . National Watermelon Day (U.S.)
Aug. 4. Sunset Festival of the Dead (Ancient Egypt)
Aug. 5. National Mustard Day (U.S.) / on this day in 1924 the comic strip Little Orphan Annie premiered.
Aug. 6. Toro Nagashi (Japan) Floating lantern ceremony held to honor those killed by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on this day in 1945 / Festival of Nut & Ra and the Chief Festival of Thoth (Ancient Egypt) / In the film Gojira, released in November of 1954, the day that the Lucky Dragon was sunk by the monster that we know as Godzilla, which in the original version was a statement against the use of atomic weapons, which is why the film was set between the 6 and 9th of August.
Aug. 7. Sister's Day. Held the first Sunday in August
Aug. 8. Father's Day (Taiwan) Held on this day because Ba Ba (father) also means 8 8 so it's held on the 8th of August. / Peace Day (Iraq)
Aug. 9. National Women's Day (South Africa) / International Book Lovers Day.
Aug. 10. National S'mores Day (U.S.) / Opalia (Ancient Rome) First of two festivals held in honor of Ops, fertility goddess and wife of Saturn.
Aug. 11. Not much going on today, however it seems today was a busy one for the Beatles with: "A Hard Days Night" opening in 1964, "Help" opening in 1965, their last concert tour in US starting in 1966, the launch of Apple Record in 1968. Gear!
Aug. 12. Feast of The Lights of Isis (Ancient Egypt) / Queen's Birthday and Mother's Day (Thailand) / International Youth Day (United Nations) /Sea Org Day (Scientology) Special events day for all Sea Organization members, with rank and rating promotion ceremonies.
Aug. 13. Hecate's Day. (Ancient Rome) / Vertumnalia (Ancient Rome) Festival held in honor
of Diana and Vertumnus god of the season and change. / International Lefthanders Day. In honor of the day I'm typing this left-handed. At least for the A's T's E's and such.
Aug. 14. National Navajo Code Talkers Day (U.S.) Day to honor the code talkers of World
War II who supplied the one unbreakable code of the war, the Navajo language. / National Creamsicle Day (U.S.)
Aug. 15. National Relaxation Day (U.S.) / National Failures Day (U.S.) At last a day I can call my own. / Assumption of Mary (Roman Catholic) / World Day of Reiki.
Aug. 16. Raksha Bandhan (Hindu) festival celebrated mainly in northern Indian states, Rakhi is a special occasion to celebrate the chaste bond of love between a brother and a sister / The roller coaster is 111 years old today.
Aug. 17. Rituals in the Temples of Ra, Horus & Osiris. (Ancient Egypt)
Aug. 18. On this date in 1587 Virginia Dare the first white child of English parents is born in America. She later becomes the first such child to go missing during the first American mystery as she and the rest of them disappear. / International Bad Poetry Day & International Lighthouse Day. As for Bad Poetry Day, perhaps these will help:
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Aug. 19. National Aviation Day (U.S.) / Vinalia Rustica (Ancient Rome) Festival held in honor of Venus Libitina, the Venus of death, corpses and funerals, which today I guess would make her the Goddess of spooky chicks.
Aug. 20. World Union Day / Lover's Day (Taiwan) / and a gibbous eldritch 121th birthday to H. P. Lovecraft.
Aug. 21. Spumoni Ice Cream Day (U.S.) / The first Lincoln - Douglas debate started 151 years ago today
Aug. 22 Be An Angel Day. (U.S.) / Take a Look at Other Points of View Day (U.S.) A day to make an effort to look at things the way other people see them.
Aug. 23. Umhlanga Day "Reed Dance Day" (Swaziland) / Charlie Brown's sister Sally is 52, having been born on this day in 1959. / Vulcanalia (Ancient Rome) On this day in the old Roman Empire small fish were tossed into large fires to appease Vulcan and ask him to restrain wild fires and volcanoes.
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Aug. 24. Krishna Janmaashtami (Hindu) festival celebrating the birth of Krishna. / Knife Day (U.S.) / It was 1930 years ago that Mt. Vesuvius erupted destroying Pompeii, Staviae & Herculaneum. See what happens when you skimp on your Vulcanalia observances?
Aug. 25. Opiconsivia (Ancient Rome) Another festival held in honor of Ops.
Aug. 26. Women's Rights Day (U.S.) / On this day in 1920 the 19th Amendment giving women the vote in America was passed. On the stands 40 years ago this month
Aug. 27. Volturnalia (Ancient Rome) feast held in honor of Volturnus, the god of the East wind.
Aug. 28 National Heroes Day (Philippines) / Assumption of Mary (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Aug. 29.More Herbs, Less Salt Day. (U.S.) At least the second one has a theme. / First day of Thoth (Ancient Egypt) / Chop Suey invented in America in 1896. / 71 years later, in the same city, the Beatles give their last public concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, the two events however are not otherwise related.
Aug. 30. International Day of the Disappeared. / National Toasted Marshmallow Day (U.S.) / It was on this day in 1146 that a conference of European leaders outlawed the crossbow, thinking to end war for all time. Nice try.
Aug. 31 - Sept. 9. Ganesh Chaturtai (Hindu) Time to cleanse the household and oneself leading to the reinstalling of the statue's 'presence' of Ganesh in the home.
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