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Tired of all the ice cream holidays and need a change. Well if you still want something cold, but portable, tomorrow is your day. It will be 'National Cherry Popsicle Day'.
Tomorrow will be 'National Dog Day'. This is not to celebrate the 'Dog Days' of summer, that is about July 3 to August 11. Dogs have been are friends for over 15,000 years. Treat them right and adopt if you can.
A few days ago we talked about the 19th amendment to the US Constitution and how it would give women the right to vote. Well, on August 26 it was ratified. Tomorrow is 'National Women’s Equality Day'.
Tomorrow is also 'National Toilet Paper Day'. Thought you were buying the large economy roll. Well, on August 26 20011, Charmin, beat the Guinness World Record with a roll over 1,000,000 sq. ft. (8ft x 9ft and equivalent to about 95,000 regular rolls) of paper. The article does not go on to say if the household that purchased the roll, had to remodel the bathroom to accommodate it.
Walk backward through your mind and try to remember August 26 in the past:
In 1791 - John Fitch is granted a US patent for the steamboat. Robert Fulton's claim to fame was the first commercially successful steamboat.
In 1818, Illinois becomes 21st US state.
In 1902, Conrad Hubert is awarded a patent for a flashlight with an on/off switch.
In 1939, for the first time, a Major League Baseball game is broadcast on TV. It was between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds.
In 1959, British Motor Corporation (BMC) launches the small, affordable Mark I Mini.
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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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