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August 2004

Admit You're Happy Month

May Your Reading Be a Haven Month

National Inventors' Month

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Sunday 1 World Wide Web (1990) Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau, or CERN, first suggest the web. By October they had a prototype browser, HTML and the URL.
Monday 2 James Baldwin (1924) African-American author of Go Tell It on the Mountain.
Tuesday 3 Columbus Sails for the New World (1492) The Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria set sail for "Cathay" but find the New World instead on October 12.
Wednesday 4 Coast Guard Day Celebrates the founding of the Revenue Cutter Service in 1790 which merged with the Life Saving Service in 1915 to become the Coast Guard.
Thursday 5 John Eliot (1604) Translated the Bible into an Indian tongue, which was also the first Bible printed in America. "Apostle to the Indians"
Friday 6 Andy Warhol (1928) He was famous for more than 15 minutes.
Saturday 7 Hatfield-McCoy Feud (1882) The legendary feud began when 3 of the McCoy's wounded Ellison Hatfield. The Hatfield's then kidnapped the 3 McCoys and executed them when Ellison died on August 9 .
Sunday 8 Odie (1978) Garfield's friend and nemisis first appeared today.
Monday 9 Nixon Resigns (1974) "Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember other may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself."
Tuesday 10 Smithsonian Institution Founded (1846) Explore the treasures of the nation.
Wednesday 11 Alex Haley (1921) The Pulitzer Prize winning author of Roots was born.
Thursday 12 Home Sewing Machine Invented (1851) Isaac Singer invented the first sewing machine for home use.
Friday 13 Opening of the XXVIII Olympiad The Olympics begin in Athens, Greece.
Saturday 14 National Garage Sale Day Clean out the house and have a sale! Pricing Items
Sunday 15 Panama Canal Opens (1914) Connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the canal revolutionized ocean travel between the coasts.
Monday 16     Joe Miller's Joke Day In honor of English comic actor Joseph Miller (born ca. 1684) ; the inspiration for the first joke book. "I want to be well-known. If people don't see me for a week they should ask each other 'Where is Mr. Brown?'" "That is very easy to accomplish. Borrow money from everybody and vanish."
Tuesday 17 Sandcastle Day Head to the beach and build a dream.
Wednesday 18 Nineteen Amendment Ratified (1920) Suffragettes win women got the right to vote .
Thursday 19 Gene Roddenberry (1921) "Live long and prosper."
Friday 20 HP Lovecraft (1890) The original master of horror.
Saturday 21 Hawaii Admitted as a State (1959) And then we were 50.
Sunday 22 George Herriman (1880) Penned the popular Krazy Kat and Ignatz comic strip of the early 20th century.
Monday 23 Valentino Memorial Service Held annually in Hollywood to mark the anniversary of silent screen star Rudoloph Valentino's death.
Tuesday 24 Vesuvius Day (79) The eruption destroyed Pompeii and neighboring cities.
Wednesday 25 Wizard of Oz Released (1939) Dorthy, Toto, and the rest of the gang went off to see the wizard .
Thursday 26 Albert Bruce Sabin (1906) Invented the oral polio vaccine, which provided lifetime protection.  It replaced Salk's injected vaccine.
Friday 27 Mother Teresa (1910) Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity.
Saturday 28 Radio Commercials The first radio commerical ran on WEAF in New York.
Sunday 29 "According to Hoyle" Day Honors Edmond Hoyle who wrote a treatise on the game of whist . This became a model for card game rules and the phrase went into history.
Monday 30 Burning Man 2004 The annual festival of self expression and survival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada culminates with the burning of a 50 foot statue today.
Tuesday 31 Whitechapel Murders Begin (1888) The first, in a series of murders, that made Jack the Ripper infamous.

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