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1 Friendship Day
William Clark's Birthday (1770)
Francis Scott Key's Birthday (1779)
First US Census (1790)
Anne Frank's Last Diary Entry (1944)
Birth of World Wide Web (1990)
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2 Declaration of Independence Official Signing Day (1776)
Albert Einstein's Atomic Bomb Letter to President Franklin Roosevelt (1939)
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3 Columbus Sets Sail for New World (1492)
National Watermelon Day
National Mustard Day
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4 National Chocolate Chip Day
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5 National Waffle Day
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6 Atomic Bomb Dropped On Hiroshima (1945)
National Root Beer Float Day
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7 First Picture of Earth from Space (1959)
Operation Desert Shield Began (1990)
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8 Bonza Bottler Day (There is one of these days in each month; it's when the number of the day is the same as the number of the month.)
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9 Nagasaki Day
President Nixon Resigned (1974)
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10 The Perseid Meteor Shower
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11 The Perseids (Night of the Shooting Stars)
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12 The Perseid Meteor Shower
IBM Launches PC (1981)
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13 International Lefthanders Day
Berlin Wall Erected (1961)
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14 V-J (Victory over Japan) Day
National Creamsicle Day
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15 National Relaxation Day
Completion of Transcontinental U.S. Railway (1870)
Opening of Panama Canal (1914)
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16 Bennington Battle Day, VT (1777)
Wilbur Wright's Birthday (1867)
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17 Sand Castle Day
Davy Crockett's Birthday (1786)
First American Steamboat Trip (1807)
First Transatlantic Balloon Crossing (1978)
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18 Virginia Dare's Birthday (1587)
Meriwether Lewis' Birthday (1774)
Nineteenth Amendment Ratified (1920)
National Ice Cream Pie Day
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19 Orville Wright's Birthday (1871)
National Aviation Day
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20 Lemonade Day
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21 Monarch Butterfly Fall Migration Begins
Hawaii Statehood Day (1959)
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22 Be An Angel Day
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23 Chinese Festival of Hungry Ghosts
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24 Vesuvius Day (Italy)
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25 National Park Service Established (1916)
"Wizard of Oz" Movie Released (1939)
National Banana Split Day
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26 Women's Suffrage Day
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27 Mother Teresa's Birthday (1910)
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28 "I Have a Dream" Speech Day (1963)
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29 End of Soviet Communist Rule (1991)
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30 Mary Shelley's Birthday (1797)
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31 Maria Montessori's Birthday (1870)
National Trail Mix Day
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