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Still hot in Texas. Still time for another way to eat ice cream. Tomorrow will be 'National Banana Split Day'. Throw on the works.
Tomorrow are the 'Emmy Awards'.
Tomorrow is a good day to celebrate the past, by remembering the good things and forgiving the unpleasing. Tomorrow is 'National Kiss and Make Up Day'.
All you fashion conscious people out there might enjoy tomorrow's 'National Secondhand Wardrobe Day'.
Get out tomorrow and visit a park. It will be 'National Park Service - Founders Day'.
On August 25, in the past:
In 1835, 'The Great Moon Hoax'. In an attempt to increase circulation, the New York, Sun published a series of articles about the supposed discovery of life and even civilization on the moon. It was a fraud that fooled many. And yes,, it did increase circulation.
In 1919, First regularly scheduled airline service between London and Paris. I guess this was the start of 'the crowded skies'.
In 1991, Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become the Linux, Computer Operating System. A significant event for us geeks.
In 2012, The 'Voyager 1' spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.
In 2012 - Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person on the Moon, dies at age 82 due to complications of heart surgery.
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National Catfish Month, National Goat Cheese Month, National Peach Month, National Brownies at Brunch Month
August is:
August origin (from Wikipedia): Originally named Sextili (Latin), because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman calendar: under Romulus in 753 BC, when March was the first month of the year.
"About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days. Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 45 BC giving it its modern length of 31 days. In 8 BC it was renamed in honor of Augustus
According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.
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