| August 2011 | ||||||
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
 Ramadan BeginsAustralia Picnic Day First Monday of August. Francis Scott Key Born in 1779. MTV Debuted In 1981. Respect for Parents' Day Sport's Day Switzerland Founded In 1291. 1 | Holling C. Holling First Income Tax Congress enacts first income tax in 1861. First Lincoln Penny Issued In 1909. National Ice Cream Sandwich Day 2 | 3 | Coast Guard Day Established on this day in 1790. 4 | 5 | National Mustard Day First Saturday in August. Barbara Cooney Alfred Lord Tennyson Born in 1809. Odie's Birthday Garfield the Cat's friend. Wiggle Your Toes Day 6 | |
7 | Dollar Day The US dollar was created in 1786. Thomas Edison received a patent for the mimeograph machine in 1876. 8 | 9 | 10 | Don Freeman Hulk Hogan Born in 1953 in Venice Beach, California. Play in the Sand Day Author Alex Haley’s Birthday, 1921. 1999 - The last total solar eclipse of the millennium crossed many populated areas throughout Europe, India, and Iran, making it the most observed eclipse in history. 11 | IBM PC Announced in 1981. Middle Children's Day Hawaii Annexed to the U.S., 1898. 12 | Annie Oakley Born in 1860. International Left-Hander's Day National Filet Mignon Day Fall of the Aztec Empire, 1512. 13 |
14 | Brinton Turkle Julia Child Born in Pasadena, California in 1912. National Relaxation Day Transcontinental Railroad completed, 1869. 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | National Aviation Day Bill Clinton Born in Hope, Arkansas in 1946. Orville Wright Born in 1871. Potato Day Snuffleupagus's Birthday Sesame Street Character. 19 | International Homeless Animals Day National Radio Day Mosquito Day Vitus Bering discovered Alaska in 1741. 20 |
21 | 22 | First Photograph of Earth From the Moon Taken by Lunar Orbiter in 1966. National Sponge Cake Day First National Women’s Rights Convention, 1850. 23 | National Peach Pie Day International Strange Music Day National Waffle Day Waffle Iron Patented In 1869, invented by Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York. Mount Vesuvius Erupted, 79 A.D. In 1932, Amelia Earhart flew across the U.S. 24 | Kiss and Make Up Day National Banana Split Day National Park Service Established 1916. 25 | Women's Equality Day The anniversary of women getting the right to vote - the signing of the 19th Amendment, 1920. 26 | Mother Teresa Born in 1910. 27 |
| Roger Duvoisin Dream Day Martin Luther King Jr. gave the 'I Have a Dream' speech in 1963. National Cherry Turnover Day 28 | First Scout Camp Opened In 1934. Michael Jackson Born in Gary, Indiana in 1958. Speedy Gonzales Debuted in 1953. 29 | Eid al-Fitr, Muslim Holiday (31st in North America) Laurent de Brunhoff Herry Monster's Birthday Sesame Street Character. National Toasted Marshmallow Day Thurgood Marshall took a seat on the Supreme Court, 1967. 30 | Alan Jay Lerner Born in 1918, New York. National Trail Mix Day Educator Maria Montessori’s Birthday, 1870. 31 | |||
Friendship Day (1st Sunday)
National Clown Week (1st Week)
Elvis Week (2nd Week)
National Apple Week (2nd Week)
National Smile Week (2nd Week)
Air Conditioning Appreciation Week (3rd Week)
American Dance Week (3rd Week)
American Artist Appreciation Month
Foot Health Month
Home Business Month
National Catfish Month
National Golf Month
National Inventors Month
National Water Quality Month
