<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Cherry Popsicle Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Popsicle (brand)):
'Popsicle is a North American brand of ice pop owned by Unilever, and a
genericized trademark for any type of ice pop, due to its popularity.
'In 1905 in Oakland, 11-year-old Frank Epperson was mixing a white powdered
flavoring for soda and water out on the porch. He left it there, with a
stirring stick still in it. That night, temperatures reached a record low,
and the next morning, the boy discovered the drink had frozen to the stick,
inspiring the idea of a fruit-flavored 'Popsicle'. In 1922, he introduced
the frozen treat at a fireman's ball. It was a sensation. In 1923, Epperson
sold the frozen pop on a stick to the public at Neptune Beach, an amusement
park in Alameda, California. Seeing that it was a success, in 1924 Epperson
applied for a patent for his 'frozen confectionery' which he called 'the
Epsicle ice pop'. He renamed it to Popsicle, allegedly at the insistence of
his children. 'In 1925, Epperson sold the rights to the Popsicle to the Joe
Lowe Company.'
[The Hankster says] My favorite flavor. Strawberry next. Just think: if I hadn't been born in the South, I may be a millionaire today.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'Make Your Own Luck Day'.
'Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.' - Seneca
[The Hankster says] The first part is as far as I ever seem to get. Opportunity always knocks when I am not at home.
* 'National Toilet Paper Day'.
The current Guinness world record for the largest roll was set in 2011 by
Charmin, at: diameter measured 9.73 feet (the height measuring 8.49 feet).
- From Wikipedia (Toilet paper):
'The use of paper for hygiene purposes has been recorded in China in the
6th century AD, with specifically manufactured toilet paper being
mass-produced in the 14th century. Modern commercial toilet paper
originated in the 19th century, with a patent for roll-based dispensers
being made in 1883.
During the early 14th century, it was recorded that in modern-day Zhejiang
province alone there was an annual manufacturing of toilet paper amounting
in ten million packages of 1,000 to 10,000 sheets of toilet paper each.
During the Ming dynasty (1368–1644 AD), it was recorded in 1393 that an
annual supply of 720,000 sheets of toilet paper (two by three feet in size)
were produced for the general use of the imperial court at the capital of
Nanjing. From the records of the Imperial Bureau of Supplies of that same
year, it was also recorded that for the Hongwu Emperor's imperial family
alone, there were 15,000 sheets of special soft-fabric toilet paper made,
and each sheet of toilet paper was even perfumed.
In many parts of the world, especially where toilet paper or the necessary
plumbing for disposal may be unavailable or unaffordable, toilet paper is
not used. Also, in many parts of the world such as India, people consider
using water a much cleaner and more sanitary practice than using paper.
Cleansing is then performed with other methods or materials, such as water,
for example using a bidet, a lota, rags, sand, leaves (including seaweed),
corn cobs, animal furs, sticks or hands afterwards, hands are washed with
soap.
Joseph Gayetty is widely credited with being the inventor of modern
commercially available toilet paper in the United States. Gayetty's paper,
first introduced in 1857, was available as late as the 1920s. Gayetty's
Medicated Paper was sold in packages of flat sheets, watermarked with the
inventor's name. Original advertisements for the product used the tagline
The greatest necessity of the age! Gayetty's medicated paper for the
water-closet.
Seth Wheeler of Albany, New York, obtained the earliest United States
patents for toilet paper and dispensers, the types of which eventually were
in common use in that country, in 1883.
Moist toilet paper was first introduced in the United Kingdom by Andrex in
the 1990s, and in the United States by Kimberly-Clark in 2001 (in lieu of
bidets which are rare in those countries.) It is designed to clean better
than dry toilet paper after defecation, and may be useful for women during
menstruation.
More than seven billion rolls of toilet paper are sold yearly in the U.S.
alone. Americans use an average of 23.6 rolls per capita per year'.
[The Hankster says] The only paper we don't read, but really need.
* 'Women’s Equality Day:'.
Since 1971 on the date of the passage of the 19th Amendment (August 26
1920) to the United States Constitution. The amendment's passage gave women
the right to vote.
- From Wikipedia (Women's Equality Day):
'Women's Equality Day is a day proclaimed each year by the United States
President to commemorate the granting of the vote to women throughout the
country.
Women in the United States were granted the right to vote on August 26,
1920, when the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was
certified as law. The amendment was first introduced many years earlier in
1878. Every president has published a proclamation for Women's Equality Day
since 1972, the year after legislation was first introduced in Congress by
Bella Abzug. This resolution was passed in 1971 designating August 26 of
each year as Women's Equality Day'.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'World Daffodil Day'. Last Friday in August by various cancer societies.
o Animal and Pet:
* 'National Dog Day'. Since 2004 by Colleen Paige. It focuses on everything
dog, including treatment, health and recognition of their place in the
workplace.
<> Historical events on August 26
* 'In 1791, John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
This steamboat used a paddle movement, much like a duck uses its feet.
Robert Fulton designed and ran the firs 'commercially successful'
steamboat, the Clermont in 1807. This was a stern paddel wheeler. .
- From Wikipedia: 'John Fitch (January 21, 1743 – July 2, 1798) was an
American inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur and engineer. He was most
famous for operating the first steamboat service in the United States.
By 1785, Fitch was done with surveying and settled in Warminster,
Pennsylvania, where he began working on his ideas for a steam-powered boat.
Unable to raise funds from the Continental Congress, he persuaded various
state legislatures to award him a 14-year monopoly for steamboat traffic on
their inland waterways. With these monopolies, he was able to secure
funding from businessmen and professional citizens in Philadelphia.
Fitch had seen a drawing of an early British Newcomen atmospheric engine in
an encyclopedia, but Newcomen engines were huge structures designed to pump
water out of mines. He had somehow heard about the more efficient steam
engine developed by James Watt in Scotland in the late 1770s, but there was
not a single Watt engine in America at that time, nor would there be for
many years (Fulton's exported model in his 1807 steamboat, Clermont, would
be one of the first) because Britain would not allow the export of any new
technology to its former colony. As a result, Fitch attempted to design his
own version of a steam engine. He moved to Philadelphia and engaged the
clockmaker and inventor Henry Voigt to help him build a working model and
place it on a boat.
The first successful trial run of his steamboat Perseverance was made on
the Delaware River on August 22, 1787, in the presence of delegates from
the Constitutional Convention. It was propelled by a bank of oars on either
side of the boat. During the next few years, Fitch and Voigt worked to
develop better designs, and in June 1790 launched a 60-foot (18 m) boat
powered by a steam engine driving several stern-mounted oars. These oars
paddled in a manner similar to the motion of a swimming duck's feet. With
this boat, he carried up to 30 paying passengers on numerous round-trip
voyages between Philadelphia and Burlington, New Jersey during the summer
of 1790. Estimates of miles traveled that summer range from 1,300 to 3,000,
and Fitch claimed that the boat often went for 500 miles without mechanical
problems. Estimated speeds were of a minimum 6 miles per hour under
unfavorable conditions, to a maximum of 7 or 8 miles per hour.
Fitch was granted a U.S. patent on August 26, 1791, after a battle with
James Rumsey, who had also invented a steam-powered boat. The newly created
federal Patent Commission did not award the broad monopoly patent that
Fitch had asked for, but rather a patent of the modern kind, for the new
design of Fitch's steamboat. It also awarded steam-engine-related patents
dated that same day to Rumsey, Nathan Read, and John Stevens. The loss of a
monopoly due to these same-day patent awards led many of Fitch's investors
to leave his company. While his boats were mechanically successful, Fitch
no longer had the financial resources to carry on.
Fitch's idea would be turned profitable two decades later by Robert Fulton.
Though Fulton was able to obtain a monopoly in the state of New York
because of the powerful influence of his partner Robert Livingston, he was
unable to gain a U.S. patent largely because he could not demonstrate the
originality of his designs. Also, an original member of Fitch's company,
William Thornton, had become head of the newly created Patent Office, and
made the application process even more difficult for Fulton. Fitch had also
received a patent in 1791 from France, and in 1793, having given up hope of
building a steamboat in America, he left for France, where an American
investor, Aaron Vail, had promised to help him build a boat there. But
Fitch arrived just as the Reign of Terror was beginning, and his plans had
to be abandoned. He made his way to London to make an attempt there, but
that also failed. He returned to the United States in 1794 and made a few
more tries to build a steamboat.
Failing this, he moved to Bardstown, Kentucky, in 1797, where he hoped to
sell some of the lands he had acquired there in the early 1780s, and use
the proceeds to build a steamboat for use on the Ohio or Mississippi River.
He arrived to find settlers occupying his properties, resulting in legal
disputes that occupied him until his death on July 2, 1798 in Bardstown'.
* 'In 1818, Illinois becomes the 21st US state .
- From Wikipedia: 'Illinois is a state in the midwestern region of the
United States, achieving statehood in 1818. It is the 5th most populous
state and 25th largest state in terms of land area, and is often noted as a
microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small
industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and
northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal, timber, and petroleum
in the south, Illinois has a diverse economic base and is a major
transportation hub. The Port of Chicago connects the state to other global
ports from the Great Lakes, via the Saint Lawrence Seaway, to the Atlantic
Ocean, as well as the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River, via the
Illinois River. For decades, O'Hare International Airport has been ranked
as one of the world's busiest airports. Illinois has long had a reputation
as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and politics.
Although today the state's largest population center is around Chicago in
the northern part of the state, the state's European population grew first
in the west, with French Canadians who settled along the Mississippi River,
and gave the area the name, Illinois. After the American Revolutionary War
established the United States, American settlers began arriving crossing
the Appalachians barrier range in the 1810s via the gaps of the Allegheny
to boat building centers in Pittsburgh, from Cumberland, Maryland via the
Cumberland Narrows pass to outfit in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, from North
Carolina and Virginia via the Cumberland Gap to Kentucky and Tennessee, all
on the Ohio
After construction of the Erie Canal with increasing traffic and trade
through the Great Lakes, Chicago was founded in the 1830s on the banks of
the Chicago River, at one of the few natural harbors on southern Lake
Michigan. John Deere's invention of the self-scouring steel plow turned
Illinois' rich prairie into some of the world's most productive and
valuable farmlands, attracting new immigrant farmers from Germany and
Sweden. Railroads arose and matured in the 1840s, and soon carried
immigrants to new homes in Illinois, as well as being a resource to ship
their commodity crops out to markets. Railroads freed most of the land of
Illinois and other mid-western states from the tyranny of water transport
no longer was a location near a river or canal a need to ship bulk goods'.
* 'In 1902, Conrad Hubert is awarded patent number 737,107 - for a
flashlight with an on/off switch. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Conrad Hubert (1855–1928) was a Russian inventor known
for electric flashlights. He was the son of Russian Jewish parents who were
distillers and wine producers as were their ancestors.
The opportunity was not there for Hubert to start again in the distillery
business, where in Russia he was well known, so he decided to start a cigar
store in New York City. For the next 6 to 8 years he tried other businesses
which included a restaurant, a boarding house, a jewelry store, a farm, a
milk wagon route and a novelty shop. The novelty shop, American Electrical
Novelty and Manufacturing Company, is his legacy. He ultimately turned this
into the Ever Ready Company famous for its batterie
Hubert got interested in an electrical device for lighting natural gas
equipment in the later part of the 1890s. He obtained this patent (No.
617,592) from David Misell, which came with an electric device that
resembles the flashlight.
Hubert continued to make improvements on his portable electric lights from
1903 forward. In 1905, he and W.H. Lawrence, who had manufactured the first
consumer battery to power home telephones, formed the Ever Ready battery
company. He soon became a millionaire. In 1914 he sold Ever Ready Company
to the National Carbon Company. He soon thereafter bought a controlling
share in the Yale Electric Corporation, manufacturing batteries for
automobiles and later for radios, and was the chairman of the board of
directors until his death'.
* 'In 1920, The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect,
giving women the right to vote It prohibits any United States citizen from
being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. .
- 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 1939, First Major League Baseball game ever aired on television. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The first-ever televised baseball game was on May 17,
1939, between Princeton and Columbia Princeton beat Columbia 2–1 at
Columbia's Baker Field. The contest was aired on W2XBS, an experimental
station in New York City which would ultimately become WNBC-TV. The game
was announced by Bill Stern. Dawson L. Farber, Jr. pitched for Princeton.
On August 26 of the same year, the first ever Major League Baseball game
was televised (once again on W2XBS). With Red Barber announcing, the
Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds played a doubleheader at Ebbets
Field. The Reds won the first, 5–2 while the Dodgers won the second, 6–1.
Barber called the game without the benefit of a monitor and with only two
cameras capturing the game. One camera was placed behind home plate, in the
second tier of seating, while another was positioned near the visitors'
dugout, on the third-base side'.
* 'In 1959, British Motor Corporation introduced the Morris Mini-Minor,
designed by Alec Issigonis it was only 10 ft long but seated 4 passengers .
- From Wikipedia: The Mini is a small economy car made by the British Motor
Corporation (BMC) and its successors from 1959 until 2000. The original is
considered a British icon of the 1960s.
'The production version of the Mini was demonstrated to the press in April
1959, and by August several thousand cars had been produced ready for the
first sales. The Mini was officially announced to the public on 26 August
1959. Some 2,000 cars had already been sent abroad and would be displayed
that day in nearly 100 countries.
The first example, a Morris Mini-Minor with the registration 621 AOK, is on
display at the Heritage Motor Centre in Warwickshire. Another early example
from 1959 is now on display at the National Motor Museum in Hampshire'.
* 'In 1964, The Kinks 'You Really Got Me' was released in the U.S. .
- From Wikipedia: 'You Really Got Me is a song written by Ray Davies for
English rock band the Kinks. The song, originally performed in a more
blues-oriented style, was inspired by artists such as Lead Belly and Big
Bill Broonzy. Two versions of the song were recorded, with the second
performance being used for the final single. Although it was rumoured that
future Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page had performed the song's guitar
solo, the myth has since been proven false.
You Really Got Me was built around power chords (perfect fifths and
octaves) and heavily influenced later rock musicians, particularly in the
genres of heavy metal and punk rock. Built around a guitar riff played by
Dave Davies, the song's lyrics were described by Dave as a love song for
street kids.
You Really Got Me was released on 4 August 1964 as the group's third
single, and reached number one on the UK singles chart the next month,
remaining for two weeks. The song became the group's breakthrough hit it
established them as one of the top British Invasion acts in the United
States, reaching number seven there later in the year. You Really Got Me
was later included on the Kinks' debut album, Kinks. The song was covered
by American rock band Van Halen in 1978, reaching the Billboard Top 40'.
* 'In 1967, Jimi Hendrix's 'Purple Haze' was released. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Purple Haze is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and
released as the second record single by the Jimi Hendrix Experience on
March 17, 1967. As a record chart hit in several countries and the opening
number on the Experience's debut American album, it was many people's first
exposure to Hendrix's psychedelic rock sound.
The song features his inventive guitar playing, which uses the signature
Hendrix chord and a mix of blues and Eastern modalities, shaped by novel
sound processing techniques. Because of ambiguities in the lyrics,
listeners often interpret the song as referring to a psychedelic
experience, although Hendrix described it as a love song.
Purple Haze is one of Hendrix's best-known songs and appears on many
Hendrix compilation albums. The song featured regularly in concerts and
each of Hendrix's group configurations issued live recordings. It was
inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and is included on lists of the
greatest guitar songs, including at number two by Rolling Stone and number
one by Q magazine'.
* 'In 1970, Nationwide Women's strike for Equality (1 day). .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Women’s Strike for Equality was a strike which took
place in the United States on August 26, 1970. It celebrated the 50th
anniversary of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, which effectively
gave American women the right to vote. The rally was sponsored by the
National Organization for Women (NOW). More than 20,000 women gathered for
the protest in New York City and throughout the country. At this time, the
gathering was the largest on behalf of women in the United States. The
strike primarily focused on equal opportunity in the workforce, political
rights for women, and social equality in relationships such as marriage. It
also addressed the right to have an abortion and free childcare, but these
were more controversial positions which more conservative women, including
pro-life feminists, generally did not at the time agree with'.
* 'In 2011, Boeing 787 Dreamliner certified. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is an American long-range,
mid-size widebody, twin-engine jet airliner by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Its variants seat 242 to 335 passengers in typical three-class seating
configurations. It is Boeing's most fuel-efficient airliner and is a
pioneering airliner with the use of composite materials as the primary
material in the construction of its airframe. The 787 was designed to be
20% more fuel efficient than the Boeing 767, which it was intended to
replace. The 787 Dreamliner's distinguishing features include mostly
electrical flight systems, swept wingtips, and noise-reducing chevrons on
its engine nacelles. It shares a common type rating with the larger Boeing
777 to allow qualified pilots to operate both models.
The aircraft's initial designation was the 7E7, prior to its renaming in
January 2005. The first 787 was unveiled in a roll-out ceremony on July 8,
2007 at Boeing's Everett factory. Development and production of the 787 has
involved a large-scale collaboration with numerous suppliers worldwide.
Final assembly takes place at the Boeing Everett Factory in Everett,
Washington, and at the Boeing South Carolina factory in North Charleston,
South Carolina. Originally planned to enter service in May 2008, the
project experienced multiple delays. The airliner's maiden flight took
place on December 15, 2009, and completed flight testing in mid-2011.
Boeing has reportedly spent $32 billion on the 787 program.
Final US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and European Aviation Safety
Agency (EASA) type certification was received in August 2011 and the first
787-8 was delivered in September 2011. It entered commercial service on
October 26, 2011 with launch customer All Nippon Airways. The stretched
787-9 variant, which is 20 feet (6.1 m) longer and can fly 450 nautical
miles (830 km) farther than the -8, first flew in September 2013.
Deliveries of the 787-9 began in July 2014 it entered commercial service on
August 7, 2014 with All Nippon Airways, with 787-9 launch customer Air New
Zealand following two days later. As of July 2016, the 787 had orders for
1,161 aircraft from 64 customers, with All Nippon Airways having the
largest number on order.
The aircraft has suffered from several in-service problems, including fires
on board related to its lithium-ion batteries. These systems were reviewed
by both the FAA and the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau. The FAA issued a
directive in January 2013 that grounded all 787s in the US and other civil
aviation authorities followed suit. After Boeing completed tests on a
revised battery design, the FAA approved the revised design and lifted the
grounding in April 2013 the 787 returned to passenger service later that
month'.
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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
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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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