<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Ice Cream Pie Day'. . Ice cream in a pre-baked pie shell or
cookie/gram cracker crust.
[The Hankster says] I will take mine with fresh fruit, whipped cream and a cherry on top. And of course gram cracker crust.
* 'National Fajita Day'. . Created in 2016 by On the Border Mexican Grill and
Cantina.
- From Wikipedia (Fajita):
'A fajita is a term found in Tex-Mex cuisine, commonly referring to any
grilled meat usually served as a taco on a flour or corn tortilla. The term
refers to the cut of beef used in the dish which is known as skirt steak.
Popular grilled meats used in tacos such as chicken, pork, shrimp, and
other cuts of beef are often incorrectly called fajitas. In restaurants,
the meat is usually cooked with onions and bell peppers. Popular condiments
are shredded lettuce, sour cream, guacamole, salsa, pico de gallo, cheese,
and tomato. The northern Mexican variant of the dish name is Arrachera.
Fajita is a Tex-Mex, Texan-Mexican American or Tejano, diminutive term for
little strips of meat cut from the beef skirt, the most common cut used to
make fajitas. The word fajita is not known to have appeared in print until
1971, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. (The word faja is Spanish
for strip, or belt, from the Latin fascia, band)
The food was popularized by various businesses such as Ninfa's in Houston,
the Hyatt Regency in Austin, and numerous restaurants in San Antonio. In
southern Arizona, the term was unknown except as a cut of meat until the
1990s, when Mexican fast food restaurants started using the word in their
marketing. In recent years, fajitas have become popular at American casual
dining restaurants as well as in home cooking.
In many restaurants, the fajita meat is brought to the table sizzling
loudly on a metal platter or skillet, with the tortillas and condiments'.
[The Hankster says] You know the rules. This first, then the ice cream pie.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Mail Order Catalog Day'.
In remembrance of the first Montgomery Wards mail order catalog in 1872 It
was a single page at time, but grew into over 500. The Sears catalog came
later.
- From Wikipedia (Mail order):
'In 1845, Tiffany's Blue Book was the first mail-order catalogue in the
United States.
In 1872, Aaron Montgomery Ward of Chicago produced a mail-order catalogue
for his Montgomery Ward mail order business. By buying goods and then
reselling them directly to customers, Aaron Montgomery Ward was
consequently removing the middlemen at the general store and to the benefit
of the customer, lowering drastically the prices.
His first catalogue was a single sheet of paper with a price list, 8 by 12
inches, showing the merchandise for sale and ordering instructions.
Montgomery Ward identified a market of merchant-wary farmers in the
Midwest. Within two decades, his single-page list of products grew into a
540-page illustrated book selling over 20,000 items.
From about 1921 to 1931, Ward sold prefabricated kit houses, called Wardway
Homes, by mail order.
Hammacher Schlemmer is the earliest still surviving mail-order business,
established by Alfred Hammacher in New York City in 1848. Offering
mechanic's tools and builder's hardware, its first catalogue was published
in 1881.
T. Eaton Co. Limited was founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, an
Irish immigrant. The first Eaton's catalogue was a 34-page booklet issued
in 1884. As Eaton's grew, so did the catalogue. By 1920, Eaton's operated
mail order warehouses in Winnipeg, Toronto and Moncton to serve its
catalogue customers. Catalogue order offices were also established
throughout the country, with the first opening in Oakville in 1916'.
[The Hankster says] These catalogues were one of my favorite things to read as a kid. And yes I did look at it for the pictures. Get your hands on an old one. It's great fun.
* 'Bad Poetry Day'.
[The Hankster says] And once again, this day was not created in my honor.
* 'Helium Discovery Day'.
During a solar eclipse in 1868 two scientists, French astronomer Pierre
Jules C‚sar Janssen (French) and Joseph Norman Lockyer (English)
independently discover a new element (Helium) when spectroscopic data from
the Sun is analyzed. Helium was later discovered on Earth by Scottish
chemist William Ramsay. See more in the history section for 1868.
[The Hankster says] My goodness. What ever did they do for birthday balloons before then.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Other:
* 'Vietnam Veterans' Day in Australia (Long Tan Day)'. The day commemorates
those Australians who fought in Vietnam .The date commemorates the Battle
of Long Tan during the Vietnam War.
<> Historical events on August 18
* 'In 1587, Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the
Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Virginia Dare (born August 18, 1587, date of death
unknown) was the first Englishman or Englishwoman born in the British
Colonies in the New World. She was born to English parents Ananias Dare and
Eleanor White (also spelled Ellinor or Elyonor) and named after the
Virginia Colony.
What became of Virginia and the other colonists remains a mystery. The fact
of her birth is known because John White, Virginia's grandfather and the
governor of the colony, returned to England in 1587 to seek fresh supplies.
When White eventually returned three years later, the colonists were gone.
During the past four hundred years, Virginia Dare has become a prominent
figure in American myth and folklore, symbolizing different things to
different groups of people. She has been featured as a main character in
books, poems, songs, comic books, television programs, and films. Her name
has been used to sell different types of goods, from vanilla products to
wine and spirits. Many places in North Carolina and elsewhere in the
Southern United States have been named in her honor'.
* 'In 1590, John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a
supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was
established on Roanoke Island in what is today's Dare County, North
Carolina, United States. It was a late 16th-century attempt by Queen
Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement. The colony was
founded by Sir Walter Raleigh.
The colonists disappeared during the Anglo-Spanish War, three years after
the last shipment of supplies from England. Their disappearance gave rise
to the nickname The Lost Colony. There has been no conclusive evidence as
to what happened to the colonists.
White sailed for England in late 1587, although crossing the Atlantic at
that time of year was a considerable risk. Plans for a relief fleet were
delayed first by the captain's refusal to return during the winter, and
then the attack on England of the Spanish Armada and the subsequent
Anglo-Spanish War. Every able English ship joined the fight, leaving White
without a means to return to Roanoke at the time.:125–26 In the spring of
1588, White managed to acquire two small vessels and sailed for Roanoke
however, his attempt to return was thwarted when the captains of the ships
attempted to capture several Spanish ships on the outward-bound voyage (in
order to improve their profits). They themselves were captured and their
cargo seized. With nothing left to deliver to the colonists, the ships
returned to England.:125–26 The discovery of the word Croatoan carved onto
a stockade board
Because of the continuing war with Spain, White was unable to mount another
resupply attempt for an additional three years. He finally gained passage
on a privateering expedition that agreed to stop off at Roanoke on the way
back from the Caribbean. White landed on August 18, 1590, on his
granddaughter's third birthday, but found the settlement deserted. His men
could not find any trace of the 90 men, 17 women, and 11 children, nor was
there any sign of a struggle or battle.:130–33
The only clue was the word CROATOAN carved into a post of the fence around
the village. All the houses and fortifications had been dismantled, which
meant that their departure had not been hurried. Before he had left the
colony, White instructed them that, if anything happened to them, they
should carve a Maltese cross on a tree nearby, indicating that their
absence had been forced. There was no cross, and White took this to mean
that they had moved to Croatoan Island (now known as Hatteras Island), but
he was unable to conduct a search. A massive storm was forming and his men
refused to go any further the next day, they left'.
* 'In 1868, French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Pierre Jules César Janssen (22 February 1824 – 23
December 1907), also known as Jules Janssen, was a French astronomer who,
along with the English scientist Joseph Norman Lockyer, is credited with
discovering the gaseous nature of the solar chromosphere, and with some
justification the element helium.
In 1868 Janssen discovered how to observe solar prominences without an
eclipse. While observing the solar eclipse of August 18, 1868, at Guntur,
Madras State (now in Andhra Pradesh), British India, he noticed bright
lines in the spectrum of the chromosphere, showing that the chromosphere is
gaseous. Present in the spectrum of the Sun, though not immediately noticed
or commented upon, was a bright yellow line later measured to have a
wavelength of 587.49 nm. This was the first observation of this particular
spectral line, and one possible source for it was an element not yet
discovered on the earth. From the brightness of the spectral lines, Janssen
realized that the chromospheric spectrum could be observed even without an
eclipse, and he proceeded to do so.
On 20 October of the same year, Joseph Norman Lockyer in England set up a
new, relatively powerful spectroscope. He also observed the emission
spectrum of the chromosphere, including the same yellow line. Within a few
years, he worked with a chemist and they concluded that it could be caused
by an unknown element, after unsuccessfully testing to see if it were some
new type of hydrogen. This was the first time a chemical element was
discovered on an extraterrestrial body before being found on the earth.
Lockyer and the English chemist Edward Frankland named the element with the
Greek word for the Sun, (helios)'.
* 'In 1920, Women's suffrage became guaranteed with the ratification of
19th amendment .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United
States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied
the right to vote on the basis of sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920.
Until the 1910s, most states disenfranchised women. The amendment was the
culmination of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, which
fought at both state and national levels to achieve the vote. It
effectively overruled Minor v. Happersett, in which a unanimous Supreme
Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment did not give women the right to
vote.
The Nineteenth Amendment was first introduced in Congress in 1878 by
Senator Aaron A. Sargent. Forty-one years later, in 1919, Congress approved
the amendment and submitted it to the states for ratification. It was
ratified by the requisite number of states a year later, with Tennessee's
ratification being the final vote needed to add the amendment to the
Constitution. In Leser v. Garnett (1922), the Supreme Court rejected claims
that the amendment was unconstitutionally adopted'.
* 'In 1956, Elvis Presley's 'Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel' reaches #1 on the
Cash Box chart and stays their for 4 weeks. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Hound Dog is a twelve-bar blues song written by Jerry
Leiber and Mike Stoller. Recorded originally by Willie Mae Big Mama
Thornton on August 13, 1952 in Los Angeles and released by Peacock Records
in late February 1953, Hound Dog was Thornton's only hit record, selling
over 500,000 copies, spending 14 weeks in the R and B charts, including
seven weeks at #1. Thornton's recording of Hound Dog is listed as one of
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll, and
was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in February 2
Hound Dog has been recorded more than 250 times. The best-known version of
Hound Dog is the July 1956 recording by Elvis Presley, which is ranked No.
19 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
it is also one of the best-selling singles of all time. Presley's version,
which sold about 10 million copies globally, was his best-selling song and
an emblem of the rock 'n' roll revolution It was simultaneously No. 1 on
the US pop, country, and R and B charts in 1956, and it topped the pop
chart for 11 weeks — a record that stood for 36 years. Presley's 1956 RCA
recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1988, and it is
listed as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped
Rock and Roll
Hound Dog has been at the center of controversies and several lawsuits,
including disputes over authorship, royalties, and copyright infringement
by the many answer songs released by such artists as Rufus Thomas and Roy
Brown. From the 1970s onward, the song has been featured in numerous films,
including Grease, Forrest Gump, Lilo and Stitch, A Few Good Men, Hounddog,
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Nowhere Boy'.
* 'In 1962, Peter, Paul an Mary's 'If I Had A Hammer' was released. .
- From Wikipedia: 'If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song) is a song written by
Pete Seeger and Lee Hays. It was written in 1949 in support of the
progressive movement, and was first recorded by The Weavers, a folk music
quartet composed of Seeger, Hays, Ronnie Gilbert and Fred Hellerman. It was
a number 10 hit for Peter, Paul and Mary in 1962 and then went to number
three a year later when recorded by Trini Lopez.
The Weavers released the song under the title The Hammer Song as a 78
single in March 1950 on Hootenanny Records, 101-A, backed with Banks of
Marble'.
* 'In 1982, The LA Dodgers defeat Chicago Cubs after 21 innings of play
that started previous day.
* 'In 1983, Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 people and
causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars). .
- From Wikipedia: 'Hurricane Alicia was the costliest tropical cyclone in
the Atlantic since Hurricane Agnes in 1972. Alicia was the third
depression, the first tropical storm, and the only major hurricane of the
1983 Atlantic hurricane season. It struck Galveston and Houston, Texas
directly, causing $2.6 billion (1983 USD US$6.18 billion 2016) in damage
and killing 21 people this made it the worst Texas hurricane since
Hurricane Carla in 1961. In addition, Alicia was the first billion-dollar
tropical cyclone in Texas history.
Hurricane Alicia was the first hurricane to hit the United States mainland
since Hurricane Allen in August 1980. The time between the two storms
totaled three years and eight days (1,103 days). Hurricane Alicia became
the last major hurricane (Category 3 or higher) to strike Texas until the
stronger Hurricane Bret in 1999 made landfall. Alicia was the first storm
for which the National Hurricane Center issued landfall probabilities.
Hurricane Alicia was notable for the delayed post storm evacuation of
Galveston Island (since the eye of the storm traveled the evacuation route
up Interstate 45 from Galveston to Houston). The hurricane was also notable
for the shattering of many windows in downtown Houston by loose gravel from
the roofs of new skyscrapers and by other debris, prompting changes to
rooftop construction codes'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in August
Food
National Catfish Month
National Goat Cheese Month
Rye Month
Health
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
Neurosurgery Outreach Month
Psoriasis Awareness Month
Animal / Pets
Other
American Adventures Month
American Artists Appreciation Month
American Indian Heritage Month
American History Essay Contest
Black Business Month
Boomers Making A Difference Month
Bystander Awareness Month
Child Support Awareness Month
Get 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
Shop Online For Groceries Month
What Will Be Your Legacy Month
XXXI Summer Olympics: 5-21
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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