August Events Calendar for Educators

Francis Scott Key Born in 1779.

MTV Debuted In 1981.

Respect for Parents' Day

Sport's Day

Switzerland Founded In 1291.

National Mustard Day First Saturday in August.

Holling C. Holling

First Income Tax Congress enacts first income tax in 1861.

First Lincoln Penny Issued In 1909.

National Ice Cream Sandwich Day

American Family Day First Sunday in August.

Columbus Set Sail on his 1st Voyage In 1492.

National Watermelon Day

Mary Calhoun

Australia Picnic Day First Monday of August.

Coast Guard Day Established on this day in 1790.

Neil Armstrong Born in Ohio in 1930.

Robert Bright

Barbara Cooney

Alfred Lord Tennyson Born in 1809.

Odie's Birthday Garfield the Cat's friend.

Wiggle Your Toes Day

Betsy Byars

Sea Serpent Day

Dollar Day The US dollar was created in 1786.

Thomas Edison received a patent for the mimeograph machine in 1876.

Betty Boop Created in 1930.

National Rice Pudding Day

Smokey Bear’s Birthday, 1944

Herbert Hoover Born in 1874, in West Branch, Iowa.

S'Mores Day

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.

IBM PC Announced in 1981.

Middle Children's Day

Hawaii Annexed to the U.S., 1898.

Annie Oakley Born in 1860.

International Left-Hander's Day

National Filet Mignon Day

Fall of the Aztec Empire, 1512.

Alice Provensen

National Creamsicle Day

Japan Surrendered in World War II, 1945.

Brinton Turkle

Julia Child Born in Pasadena, California in 1912.

National Relaxation Day

Transcontinental Railroad completed, 1869.

International Homeless Animals Day

Beatrice de Regniers

National Tell a Joke Day

Roller Coaster Day Roller coaster patented in 1898.

Myra Cohn Livingston

Davy Crockett Born in Tennessee in 1786.

Louis Fatio

Bad Poetry Day

Wizard of Oz Premiered In 1939.

National Aviation Day

Bill Clinton Born in Hope, Arkansas in 1946.

Orville Wright Born in 1871.

Potato Day

Snuffleupagus's Birthday Sesame Street Character.

National Radio Day

Mosquito Day

Vitus Bering discovered Alaska in 1741.

Wilt Chamberlain Born in 1936 in Philadelphia, PA.

First Lincoln-Douglas Debate, 1858.

Be An Angel Day

First female newspaper editor, Ann Franklin’s Birthday, 1762.

First Photograph of Earth From the Moon Taken by Lunar Orbiter in 1966.

National Sponge Cake Day

First National Women’s Rights Convention, 1850.

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.

Kiss and Make Up Day

National Banana Split Day

National Park Service Established 1916.

Women's Equality Day The anniversary of women getting the right to vote - the signing of the 19th Amendment, 1920.

Mother Teresa Born in 1910.

Roger Duvoisin

Dream Day Martin Luther King Jr. gave the 'I Have a Dream' speech in 1963.

National Cherry Turnover Day

First Scout Camp Opened In 1934.

Michael Jackson Born in Gary, Indiana in 1958.

Speedy Gonzales Debuted in 1953.

Laurent de Brunhoff

Herry Monster's Birthday Sesame Street Character.

National Toasted Marshmallow Day

Thurgood Marshall took a seat on the Supreme Court, 1967.

Alan Jay Lerner Born in 1918, New York.

National Trail Mix Day

Educator Maria Montessori’s Birthday, 1870.