<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Punch Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Punch (drink)):
'Punch is the term for a wide assortment of drinks, both non-alcoholic and
alcoholic, generally containing fruit or fruit juice. The drink was
introduced from India to the United Kingdom in the early seventeenth
century, and from there its use spread to other countries. Punch is
typically served at parties in large, wide bowls, known as punch bowls.
Sangria is a kind of punch.
The word punch is a loanword from Sanskrit meaning five, as the drink was
originally made with five ingredients: alcohol, sugar, lemon, water, and
tea or spices.
The drink was brought to England from India by sailors and employees of the
British East India Company in the early seventeenth century. From there it
was introduced into other European countries. When served communally, the
drink is expected to be of a lower alcohol content than a typical cocktail.
The term punch was first recorded in British documents in 1632. At the
time, most punches were of the wassail type made with a wine or brandy
base. But around 1655, Jamaican rum came into use and the 'modern' punch
emerged. By 1671, documents make references to punch houses.
Today, soft drink manufacturers distribute many types of fruit punch
beverages. These are usually red colored drinks. Despite the name, most
brands contain only a small fraction of actual fruit juice, the major
constituents being sugar or corn syrup, citric acid, and artificial
flavors'. .
[The Hankster says] As a kid we hardly ever had colas in the house, but we always had the HI-C brand of punch which came in a large can.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'Get Ready Day'.
Third Tuesday in September during National Preparedness Month.. By the
American Public Health Association. The emphasis is on emergency and
disaster preparedness.
[The Hankster says] Get ready and wait is much better than not to get ready and suffer.
* 'National IT Professionals Day'.
On the third Tuesday in September.
[The Hankster says] That would be an Information Technology Professional. I wonder if a spammer is an Information Technology Unprofessional.
<> Awareness / Observances:None.
<> Historical events on September 20
* 'In 1519, Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with
about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe. His ship and
some crew complete the voyage. Magellan was killed in tthePhilippines in
1521. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Ferdinand Magellan Portuguese: Fernão de Magalhães, IPA:
Spanish: Fernando de Magallanes, IPA: c. 1480 – 27 April 1521) was a
Portuguese explorer who organised the Castilian (Spanish) expedition to the
East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of
the Earth by Juan Sebastián Elcano.
Born into a Portuguese noble family in around 1480, Magellan became a
skilled sailor and naval officer and was eventually selected by King
Charles I of Spain to search for a westward route to the Maluku Islands
(the Spice Islands). Commanding a fleet of five vessels, he headed south
through the Atlantic Ocean to Patagonia, passing through the Strait of
Magellan into a body of water he named the peaceful sea (the modern Pacific
Ocean). Despite a series of storms and mutinies, the expedition reached the
Spice Islands in 1521 and returned home via the Indian Ocean to complete
the first circuit of the globe. Magellan did not complete the entire
voyage, as he was killed during the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines in
1521.
The Magellanic penguin is named after him, as he was the first European to
note it. Magellan's navigational skills have also been acknowledged in the
naming of objects associated with the stars, including the Magellanic
Clouds, now known to be two nearby dwarf galaxies the twin lunar craters of
Magelhaens and Magelhaens A and the Martian crater of Magelhaens'.
* 'In 1797, US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) was launched in Bosto.n
.
- From Wikipedia: 'USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy
frigate of the United States Navy, named by President George Washington
after the Constitution of the United States of America. Constitution is the
oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world. Constitution was launched
in 1797, one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the
Naval Act of 1794 and the third constructed. Joshua Humphreys designed the
frigates to be the young Navy's capital ships, and so Constitution and her
sisters were larger and more heavily armed and built than standard frigates
of the period. Constitution was built in the North End of Boston,
Massachusetts at Edmund Hartt's shipyard. Her first duties with the newly
formed U.S. Navy were to provide protection for American merchant shipping
during the Quasi-War with France and to defeat the Barbary pirates in the
First Barbary War.
Constitution is most noted for her actions during the War of 1812 against
the United Kingdom, when she captured numerous merchant ships and defeated
five British warships: HMS Guerriere, Java, Pictou, Cyane, and Levant. The
battle with Guerriere earned her the nickname of Old Ironsides and public
adoration that has repeatedly saved her from scrapping. She continued to
serve as flagship in the Mediterranean and African squadrons, and circled
the world in the 1840s. During the American Civil War, she served as a
training ship for the United States Naval Academy. She carried American
artwork and industrial displays to the Paris Exposition of 1878.
Constitution was retired from active service in 1881, and served as a
receiving ship until designated a museum ship in 1907. In 1934, she
completed a three-year, 90-port tour of the nation. Constitution sailed
under her own power for her 200th birthday in 1997, and again in August
2012 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of her victory over Guerriere'.
* 'In 1814, 'Star Spangled Banner' published as a song, lyrics by Francis
Scott Key, tune by John Stafford Smith.
- From Wikipedia: 'The Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem of the
United States of America. The lyrics come from Defence of Fort M'Henry, a
poem written on September 14, 1814, by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur
poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by
British ships of the Royal Navy in Baltimore Harbor during the Battle of
Baltimore in the War of 1812. Key was inspired by the large American flag,
the Star-Spangled Banner, flying triumphantly above the fort during the
American victory.
The poem was set to the tune of a popular British song written by John
Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London.
To Anacreon in Heaven (or The Anacreontic Song), with various lyrics, was
already popular in the United States. Set to Key's poem and renamed The
Star-Spangled Banner, it soon became a well-known American patriotic song.
With a range of one octave and one fifth (a semitone more than an octave
and a half), it is known for being difficult to sing. Although the poem has
four stanzas, only the first is commonly sung today.
The Star-Spangled Banner was recognized for official use by the United
States Navy in 1889, and by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, and was
made the national anthem by a congressional resolution on March 3, 1931 (46
Stat. 1508, codified at 36 U.S.C. § 301 ), which was signed by President
Herbert Hoover.
Before 1931, other songs served as the hymns of American officialdom. Hail,
Columbia served this purpose at official functions for most of the 19th
century. My Country, 'Tis of Thee, whose melody is identical to God Save
the Queen, the British national anthem, also served as a de facto anthem.
Following the War of 1812 and subsequent American wars, other songs emerged
to compete for popularity at public events, among them The Star-Spangled
Banner, as well as America the Beautiful
Key gave the poem to his brother-in-law Judge Joseph H. Nicholson who saw
that the words fit the popular melody The Anacreontic Song, by English
composer John Stafford Smith. This was the official song of the Anacreontic
Society, an 18th-century gentlemen's club of amateur musicians in London.
Nicholson took the poem to a printer in Baltimore, who anonymously made the
first known broadside printing on September 17 of these, two known copies
survive.
On September 20, both the Baltimore Patriot and The American printed the
song, with the note Tune: Anacreon in Heaven The song quickly became
popular, with seventeen newspapers from Georgia to New Hampshire printing
it. Soon after, Thomas Carr of the Carr Music Store in Baltimore published
the words and music together under the title The Star Spangled Banner,
although it was originally called Defence of Fort M'Henry The song's
popularity increased, and its first public performance took place in
October, when Baltimore actor Ferdinand Durang sang it at Captain
McCauley's tavern. Washington Irving, then editor of The Analectic Magazine
in Philadelphia, reprinted the song in November 1814.
By the early 20th century, there were various versions of the song in
popular use. Seeking a singular, standard version, President Woodrow Wilson
tasked the U.S. Bureau of Education with providing that official version.
In response, the Bureau enlisted the help of five musicians to agree upon
an arrangement. Those musicians were Walter Damrosch, Will Earhart, Arnold
J. Gantvoort, Oscar Sonneck and John Philip Sousa. The standardized version
that was voted upon by these five musicians premiered at Carnegie Hall on
December 5, 1917, in a program that included Edward Elgar's Carillon and
Gabriel Pierné's The Children's Crusade. The concert was put on by the
Oratorio Society of New York and conducted by Walter Damrosch. An official
handwritten version of the final votes of these five men has been found and
shows all five men's votes tallied, measure by measure.
The Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini used an extract of the melody in
writing the aria Dovunque al mondo... in 1904 for his work Madama
Butterfly'.
* 'In 1848, The American Association for the Advancement of Science is
created.
- From Wikipedia: 'The American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated
goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific
freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific
education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity. It is
the world's largest general scientific society, with over 120,000 members,
and is the publisher of the well-known scientific journal Science, which
had a weekly circulation of 138,549 in 2008.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science was created on
September 20, 1848 at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. It was a reformation of the Association of American
Geologists and Naturalists. The society chose William Charles Redfield as
their first president because he had proposed the most comprehensive plans
for the organization. According to the first constitution which was agreed
to at the September 20 meeting, the goal of the society was to promote
scientific dialogue in order to allow for greater scientific collaboration.
By doing so the association aimed to use resources to conduct science with
increased efficiency and allow for scientific progress at a greater rate.
The association also sought to increase the resources available to the
scientific community through active advocacy of science. There were only 78
members when the AAAS was formed. As a member of the new scientific body,
Matthew Fontaine Maury, USN was one of those who attended the first 1848
meeting'.
* 'In 1859, George Simpson patents the electric range.
- From Wikipedia: 'An electric stove or electric range is a stove that
converts electrical energy into heat to cook and bake. Electric stoves
became popular as replacements for solid-fuel (wood or coal) stoves which
required more labor to operate and maintain. Some modern stoves come in a
unit with built-in extractor hoods.
Electric stove burners may be controlled by a rotary switch with a finite
number of positions (for example, six), each of which engages a different
combination of resistances and hence a different heating power, or may have
an infinite switch called a simmerstat. Some may have a thermostat.
On September 20, 1859, George B. Simpson was awarded US patent #25532 for
an 'electro-heater' surface heated by a platinum-wire coil powered by
batteries. In his words, useful to warm rooms, boil water, cook victuals...
Canadian inventor Thomas Ahearn filed patent number no. 39916 in 1892 for
an Electric Oven, a device he probably employed in preparing a meal for an
Ottawa hotel that year. Ahearn and Warren Y. Soper were owners of Ottawa's
Chaudiere Electric Light and Power Company. The electric stove was
showcased at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, where an electrified model
kitchen was shown. Unlike the gas stove, the electrical stove was slow to
catch on, partly due to the unfamiliar technology, and the need for cities
and towns to be electrified. By the 1930s, the technology had matured and
the electrical stove slowly began to replace the gas stove, especially in
household kitchens.
In 1897, William Hadaway was granted US patent # 574537 for an
Automatically Controlled Electric Oven
Early electric stoves were unsatisfactory due to the cost of electricity
(compared with wood, coal, or city gas), limited power available from the
electrical supply company, poor temperature regulation, and short life of
heating elements. The invention of nichrome alloy for resistance wires
improved the cost and durability of heating elements. In the United States,
even though three companies had introduced electric stoves in 1908,
penetration was rare an electric stove was still considered a novelty in
the 1920s. By the 1930s, decreased cost of electric power and modernized
styling of electric stoves had greatly increased their acceptance.
Electric stoves and other household appliances were marketed by electrical
utilities to build demand for electric power. During the expansion of rural
electrification, demonstrations of cooking on an electric stove were
popular'.
* 'In 1893, Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first
American-made gasoline-powered automobile (Duryea Motor Wagon Company). .
- From Wikipedia: 'Charles Edgar Duryea (December 15, 1861 – September 28,
1938) was the engineer of the first-ever working American gasoline-powered
car and co-founder of Duryea Motor Wagon Company. He was born near Canton,
Illinois, the son of George Washington Duryea and Louisa Melvina Turner and
died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but spent most of his life working in
Springfield, Massachusetts. It was in Springfield that Charles and his
brother, Frank, produced and road-tested America's first gasoline-powered
car.
On November 28, 1895 in Chicago, their vehicle, driven by brother Frank,
had won America's first car race. It ran to Evanston, Illinois and back.
The only other finisher was one of three Benz cars mostly made in Germany.
After Frank won, demand grew for the Duryea Motor Wagon. In 1896, the
Duryea Brothers produced 13 cars by hand — in their garage at 47 Taylor
Street — and thus Duryea became the first-ever commercially produced
vehicle, and also the largest automobile factory in the United States.
A Duryea car was involved in the world's first known auto accident. New
York City motorist Henry Wells hit a bicyclist with his new Duryea. The
rider suffered a broken leg, Wells spent a night in jail and the nation's
first traffic accident was recorded. Due to low production and
extraordinarily pricey cars, e.g. in 1913, George Vanderbilt purchased and
drove a Stevens-Duryea, but was one of few people in the United States who
could afford one. His 1913 Duryea is Vanderbilt's only original car kept at
his Biltmore Estate'.
* 'In 1946, The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed
seven years due to World War II.
- From Wikipedia: 'The Cannes Festival (/'kæn/) (French: Festival de
Cannes), named until 2002 as the International Film Festival (Festival
international du film) and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is
an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of
all genres, including documentaries, from around the world. Founded in
1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually (usually in May) at the
Palais des Festivals et des Congrès.
The Cannes Film Festival has its origins in 1932 when Jean Zay, the French
Minister of National Education, on the proposal of Philippe Erlanger and
with the support of the British and Americans, set up an international
cinematographic festival. In 1947, the festival was held as the Festival du
film de Cannes, where films from sixteen countries were presented. At that
time the principle of equality was introduced, with a jury made up of only
one representative per country. The festival is now held at the Palais des
Festivals, expressly constructed for the occasion, although for its 1949
inaugural the roof was unfinished and blew off during a storm. The festival
was not held in 1948 and 1950 on account of budgetary problems. Although
its origins may be attributed in part to the French desire to compete with
Autumn's Venice Film Festival, in 1951 Cannes was moved to spring to avoid
a fall clash.
In 1955, the Palme d'Or was created, replacing the Grand Prix du Festival
which had been given until that year. In 1957, Dolores del Rio was the
first female member of the jury as a Sélection officielle – Member. In
1959, the Marché du Film (Film Market) was founded, giving the festival a
commercial character and facilitating exchanges between sellers and buyers
in the film industry. Today it has become the first international platform
for film commerce'.
* 'In 1953, Jimmy Stewart debuted on the radio western 'The Six Shooter' on
NBC. It ran for only one season (39 ep.). .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Six Shooter was a weekly old-time radio program in
the United States. It was created by Frank Burt, who also wrote many of the
episodes, and lasted only one season of 39 episodes on NBC (Sept. 20,
1953-June 24, 1954). Through March 21, 1954 it was broadcast Sundays at 8
p.m. Beginning April 1, 1954 through the final episode it was on Thursdays
at 8 p.m. One old-time radio directory called the program a last, desperate
effort by a radio network (NBC) to maintain interest in adventure drama by
employing a major Hollywood movie star in the leading role.
James Stewart starred as Britt Ponset, a drifting cowboy in the final years
of the wild west. Episodes ranged from straight western drama to whimsical
comedy. A trademark of the show was Stewart's use of whispered narration
during tense scenes that created a heightened sense of drama and relief
when the situation was resolved.
Some of the more prominent actors to perform on the program included Parley
Baer, Virginia Gregg, Harry Bartell, Howard McNear, Jeanette Nolan, Dan
O'Herlihy, Alan Reed, Marvin Miller and William Conrad (often credited as
Julius Krelboyne because he was also the star of CBS' Gunsmoke at the
time). Some did multiple episodes playing different characters.
Each episode opened with the announcer (Hal Gibney John Wald in later
episodes) stating: The man in the saddle is angular and long-legged. His
skin is sun-dyed brown. The gun in his holster is gray steel and rainbow
mother-of-pearl, its handle unmarked. People call them both the Six
Shooter'.
* 'In 1955, The TV show, You'll Never Be Rich, premiered on CBS. The name
was changed to 'The Phil Silvers Show'. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Phil Silvers Show, originally titled You'll Never
Get Rich, is a sitcom which ran on CBS from 1955 to 1959. A pilot called
Audition Show was made in 1955, but never broadcast. 143 other episodes
were broadcast - all half-an-hour long except for a 1959 one-hour live
special. The series starred Phil Silvers as Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko
of the United States Army.
The series was created and largely written by Nat Hiken, and won three
consecutive Emmy Awards for Best Comedy Series. The show is sometimes
titled Sergeant Bilko or simply Bilko in reruns, and is very often referred
to by these names, both on-screen and by viewers. The show's success
transformed Silvers from a journeyman comedian into a star, and
writer-producer Hiken from a highly regarded behind-the-scenes comedy
writer into a publicly recognized creator.
The series was originally set in Fort Baxter, a sleepy, unremarkable U.S.
Army post in the fictional town of Roseville, Kansas, and centered on the
soldiers of the Fort Baxter motor pool under Master Sergeant Ernest G.
Bilko. However, Bilko and his men seemed to spend very little time actually
performing their duties—Bilko in particular spent most of his time trying
to wheedle money through various get-rich-quick scams and promotions, or to
find ways to get others to do his work for him. While Bilko's soldiers
regularly helped him with his schemes, they were just as likely to become
pigeons in one of his schemes. Nevertheless, Bilko exhibited an odd
paternalism toward his victims, and would doggedly shield them from all
outside antagonists. The sergeant's attitude toward his men has been
described thus: They were his men and if anyone was going to take them, it
was going to be him and only him. Through it all, the platoon was generally
loyal to Bilko despite their wariness of his crafty nature, and would
depend on him to get them out of any military misfortune or outside
mistreatment. In such circumstances, Bilko would employ the same
psychological guile and chicanery he always used to outwit his suckers, but
for good purposes'.
* 'In 1969, The Archies 'Sugar Sugar' hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 110, for
4 weeks.. Wilson Pickett recorded it in 1970. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Sugar, Sugar is a pop song written by Jeff Barry and
Andy Kim. It was originally recorded by the Archies, a bubblegum pop band
formed by a group of fictional teenagers in the television cartoon series
The Archie Show. It reached number one in the US on the Billboard Hot 100
chart in 1969 and stayed there for four weeks. It was also number one on
the UK Singles chart in that same year for eight weeks. The song became a
hit again in 1970 when rhythm and blues and soul singer Wilson Pickett took
it back onto the charts'.
* 'In 1970, The Soviet Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills
core sample.
- From Wikipedia: 'Luna 16 was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon
and return a sample of lunar soil to Earth after five unsuccessful similar
attempts. The sample was returned from Mare Fecunditatis. It represented
the first lunar sample return mission by the Soviet Union and was the third
lunar sample return mission overall, following the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12
missions.
The spacecraft consisted of two attached stages, an ascent stage mounted on
top of a descent stage. The descent stage was a cylindrical body with four
protruding landing legs, fuel tanks, a landing radar, and a dual descent
engine complex.
A main descent engine was used to slow the craft until it reached a cutoff
point which was determined by the on-board computer based on altitude and
velocity. After cutoff a bank of lower thrust jets was used for the final
landing. The descent stage also acted as a launch pad for the ascent stage.
The ascent stage was a smaller cylinder with a rounded top. It carried a
cylindrical hermetically sealed soil sample container inside a re-entry
capsule.
The spacecraft descent stage was equipped with a television camera,
radiation and temperature monitors, telecommunications equipment, and an
extendable arm with a drilling rig for the collection of a lunar soil
sample'.
* 'In 1976, 'The Captain and Tennille' show premiered on ABC-TV. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Captain and Tennille were American recording artists
whose primary success occurred in the 1970s. The husband-and-wife duo were
Captain Daryl Dragon (born August 27, 1942) and Cathryn Antoinette Toni
Tennille (born May 8, 1940). They have five albums certified gold or
platinum and scored numerous hits on the US singles charts, the most
enduring of which included Love Will Keep Us Together, Do That to Me One
More Time, and Muskrat Love They hosted their own television variety series
on ABC in 1976–77.
Such was the level of their popularity that they were given their own
television variety show. The Captain and Tennille TV show aired from
September 1976 to March 1977 on ABC. It featured musical numbers and comedy
sketches performed with various guest stars. However, despite solid ratings
success, the duo wanted to focus on their music and touring career and,
after one season, asked to be released from their contract'.
* 'In 1971, Hurricane Irene evolves into Hurricane Olivia and becomes the
first hurricane to cross from the Atlantic to Pacific. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Hurricane Irene–Olivia was the first actively tracked
tropical cyclone to move into the eastern Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic
basin. It originated as a tropical depression on September 11, 1971, in the
tropical Atlantic. The cyclone tracked nearly due westward at a low
latitude, passing through the southern Windward Islands and later over
northern South America. In the southwest Caribbean Sea, it intensified to a
tropical storm and later a hurricane. Irene made landfall on southeastern
Nicaragua on September 19, and maintained its circulation as it crossed the
low-lying terrain of the country. Restrengthening after reaching the
Pacific, Irene was renamed Hurricane Olivia, which ultimately attained peak
winds of 115 mph (185 km/h). Olivia weakened significantly before moving
ashore on the Baja California Peninsula on September 30 the next day it
dissipated.
In the Atlantic, Irene produced moderate rainfall and winds along its path,
although impact was greatest in Nicaragua where it moved ashore as a
hurricane. A total of 96 homes were destroyed, and 1,200 people were left
homeless. The rainfall resulted in widespread flooding, killing three
people in Rivas. In neighboring Costa Rica, Hurricane Irene caused more
than $1 million (USD) in damage to the banana crop. Later, the remnants of
Hurricane Olivia produced rainfall in the southwest United States. Flooding
was reported near Yuma, Arizona, which closed a major highway, and the
moisture produced snowfall in higher elevations in the Rocky Mountains'.
* 'In 1975, David Bowie's 'Fame', single goes #1, on the Billboard Hot 100,
for 2 weeks. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Fame is a song recorded by David Bowie, initially
released in 1975. Written by Bowie, Carlos Alomar and John Lennon, it was a
hit in North America, becoming Bowie's first number 1 single in the
Billboard Hot 100 and one of the most successful singles of the year,
ranking at number 7 on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100. The single was less
successful in Europe, reaching number 17 in the UK Singles Chart.
The song is included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that
Shaped Rock and Roll.
With the Young Americans sessions mostly concluded by late 1974, the
material was delayed while Bowie extricated himself from his contract with
manager Tony Defries. During this time, he was staying in New York, where
he met John Lennon. The pair jammed together, leading to a one-day session
at Electric Lady Studios in January 1975. There, Carlos Alomar had
developed a guitar riff for Bowie's cover of Footstompin' by the Flairs,
which Bowie thought was a waste to give to a cover. Lennon, who was in the
studio with them, sang aim over the riff, which Bowie turned into Fame and
he thereafter wrote the rest of the lyrics to the song.
Lennon's voice is heard towards the ending of the song repeating the words:
FAME, FAME, FAME from a fast track, through a regular track, to a slow
track, before Bowie finished the lyrics.
Bowie would later describe the song as nasty, angry, and fully admitted
that it was written with a degree of malice aimed at the Mainman management
group with whom he had been working at the time. In 1990, Bowie reflected:
I'd had very upsetting management problems and a lot of that was built into
the song. I've left all that behind me, now... I think fame itself is not a
rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in
restaurants.
No. 1 song
Top movie
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Food
All American Breakfast Month
Go Wild During California Wild Rice Month
Histiocytosis Awareness Month
Hunger Action Month
National Honey Month
National Mushroom Month
National Organic Harvest Month
National Prime Beef Month
kNational Rice Month
National Shake Month
Whole Grains Month
Wild Rice Month
Health
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Month
Atrial Fibrillation Month
888222707Baby Safety Month
Backpack Safety America Month
Blood Cancer Awareness Month
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Cholesterol Education Month
Great American Low-Cholesterol, Low-fat Pizza Bake Month
Gynecology Cancer Awareness Month
ITP Awareness Month
World Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month
Mold Awareness Month
National Campus Safety Awareness Month
National Chicken Month
National Child Awareness Month
National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
National DNA, Geonomics and Stem Cell Education Month
National Head Lice Prevention Month
National Infant Mortality Awareness Month
National ITP Awareness Month
National Osteopathic Medicine Month
National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
National Sickle Cell Month
National Pediculosis Prevention Month
National Skin Care Awareness Month
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
Pain Awareness Month
Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month
Self Improvement Month
September Is Healthy Aging Month
Sports and Home Eye Health and Safety Month
Superior Relationships Month
Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month
World Alzheimer's Month
Animal / Pets
AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Month
Happy Cat Month
International/National Guide Dogs Month
National Pet Memorial Month
National Save A Tiger Month
National Service Dog Month
Save The Koala Month
World Animal Remembrance Month
Other
Be Kind To Editors and Writers Month
Childrens' Good Manners Month
College Savings Month
Fall Hat Month
International People Skills Month
International Self-Awareness Month
International Speak Out Month
International Strategic Thinking Month
International Square Dancing Month
International Women's Friendship Month
Library Card Sign-up Month
National Coupon Month
National Home Furnishings Month
National Passport Awareness Month
National Sewing Month
National Translators Month
National Piano Month
National Wilderness Month
Shameless Promotion Month
Update Your Resume Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
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