National Soft Ice Cream Day: More
Created in 1934 by Tom Carvel when he found himself with a
truck load of melting ice cream. He sold it to passers by and improved the
method of making his own when he found how popular it was.
National Potato Day: More
Inexpensive, tastes good and has potassium, vitamins C and B6.
National Hot and Spicy Food Day More
Tomorrow we have three food related holidays:
- 'National Soft Ice Cream Day:
Created in 1934 by Tom Carvel when he found himself with a truck load of melting ice cream. He sold it to passers by and improved the method of making his own when he found how popular it was.
[The Hankster says] The word serendipity means a happy accident. I would have loved to help Tom out of his accident. Then we both would have been happy.
- 'National / World Potato Day'. Inexpensive, tastes good and has potassium, vitamins C and B6.
[The Hankster says] A tuber by any other name would taste as good. Sorry W.S.
- 'National Hot and Spicy Food Day'.
[The Hankster says] I will take my potatoes fried and spicy. Curly is an option
Tomorrow is 'World Photography Day'. Commemorates the invention of the daguerreotype photo process in 1839.
[The Hankster says] There was no chance for a selfie back then. It would be hard to stick your head under a tripod camera, look at yourself upside down and run it front of the camera before it snapped. Besides the glass photo plate would be very hard to upload to a social media. The very first process used a ' camera obscura' to project the image on the glass plate.
It is 'National Aviation Day' tomorrow . Since 1939 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, celebrating the birthday of Orville Wright, August 19 1871.
Tomorrow is 'National Medical Dosimetrist Day'. Third Wed. in August. These are the people that have knowledge of radiation oncology treatment machines and procedures.
Awareness / Observance Days on: August 19
o Animal and Pets
- 'World Orangutan Day'. A conservation awareness and fund raiser.
o Other
- 'World Humanitarian Day'. A U.N. observance singe 2009 (established 2008) to honor humanitarian personnel and those who lost their lives working for such causes.
Historical events in the past on: August 19
In 1812, The American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning the nickname 'Old Ironsides'. Her hull was 24-inch triple-layered white oak and live oak sheathed in copper forged by Paul Revere. The British ship's cannon balls bounced off her sides, thus the name.
In 1839, The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift 'free to the world'. Louis sold his Invention to the French government for a life time pension.
In 1848, News about the Gold Rush in California is broken to those in the east coast, in the New York Herald. News traveled slowly In those days. The discovery had been made in January.
In 1909, The Indianapolis Motor Speedway held its first races over a 3-day period.
In 1934, The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
In 1940, The B-25 Mitchell medium bomber had it's first flight. It was used heavily against Germany and a modified version was the first planes to bomb Japan. Launched from an aircraft carrier on the Doolittle Raid.
In 1960, In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
In 1960, The first commercial atomic energy reactor, owned by the Yankee Atomic Electric Company, achieves a self-sustaining nuclear reaction in Rowe, Deerfield River, Massachusetts.
In 1964, Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, was launched.
In, 1979 'My Sharonna' by the Knack hits #1 and stays for 42 days (Billboard Hot 100).
No. 1 song
Top movie
Monthly holiday / awareness days in August
Food
National Catfish Month
National Goat Cheese Month
National Panini Month
Shop Online For Groceries Month
Rye Month
Health and Well-being
Children's Eye Health and Safety Month
Children's Vision and Learning Month
National Breastfeeding Month
National Immunization Awareness Month
National Minority Donor Awareness Month
National Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
National Win With Civility Month
Neurosurgery Outreach Month
Psoriasis Awareness Month
Animal and Pets
World Mutt-i-grees Rescue Month
Other
American Artists Appreciation Month
American Adventures Month
American Indian Heritage Month - also Nov.
Black Business Month
LBoomers Making A Difference Month
LBystander Awareness Month
LChild Support Awareness Month
LGet Ready for Kindergarten Month
Happiness Happens Month
Motor Sports Awareness Month
National Read A Romance Month
National Traffic Awareness Month
National Truancy Prevention Month
National Water Quality Month
Tomboy Tools Month
What Will Be Your Legacy 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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August at Wikipedia: More
If you couldn't afford 90 cents for a movie ticket, 50 years ago,
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