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Since Jody Gerlock usually doesn't start posting until September, I am again posting for her for the month of August for those of us who will be in school then! And, as Jody always ends her list with: "Remember, the list is just for fun! Not responsible for errors/omissions". August is... National Inventor's Month Admit You're Happy Month Family Fun Month Motorsports Awareness Month National Catfish Month National Eye Exam Month National Immunization Awareness Month National Water Quality Month National Golf Month Peach Month Romance Awareness Month Water Quality Month National Picnic Month DOG Days Family Union Days Bake Bean Month Black Family Month Hot Dog Month Make a Difference to Children Month Get Ready for Kindergarten Month August 1 William Clark Birthday, Birth of World Wide Web, U.S. Purchases Alaska From Russia for $7.2 Million Dollars, Anne Frank's Last Diary Entry, First US Census, Francis Scott Key Birthday, Emancipation of 500, Herman Melville Birthday, National Mustard Day August 2 Albert Einstein's Atomic Bomb Letter to President Franklin Roosevelt, Declaration of Independence Signed, Lincoln Penny Issued, Columbus Sails for New World, National Ice Cream Sandwich Day, International Forgiveness Day August 3 President Truman Signs Act of Congress Designating June 14 National Flag Day, National Watermelon Day August 4 Queen Elizabeth I Birthday, Chocolate Chip Day, U.S. Coast Guard Day August 5 Sister Day, Friendship Day August 6 Atomic Bomb Dropped On Hiroshima, Partial Lunar Eclipse (2009), Wiggle Your Toes Day August 7 Operation Desert Shield, National Lighthouse Day, Charlize Theron Birthday, Twins Day August 8 Happiness Happens Day, Underwear Day, Matthew Henson Birthday, Odie (Garfield's friend) Day August 9 President Nixon Resigns, Book Lover's Day, Whitney Houston Birthday August 10 Smithsonian Museum is established by Congress, Kool-Aid Day, National S'Mores Day, President Herbert Hoover Birthday, Antonio Banderas Birthday August 11 Son and Daughter Day, Stephen Wozniak Birthday, Hulk Hogan Birthday August 12 IBM Launches PC, Perseids Meteor Shower August 13 Berlin Wall Erected, Left-Handers' Day August 13-29 Athens Olympics 2004 August 14 Navajo Code Talkers Day, V-J Day, "Magic" Johnson Birthday, Halle Berry Birthday August 15 Opening of Panama Canal, Completion of Transcontinental U.S. Railway, Relaxation Day, Sand Castle and Sculpture Day August 16 Wilbur Wright Birthday August 17 Sand Castle Day, Davy Crockett Birthday August 18 Meriwether Lewis Birthday, Nineteenth Amendment Ratified, Paula Danziger Birthday, Homeless Animal Day, Bad Poetry Day August 19 Orville Wright Birthday, National Aviation Day, President Bill Clinton Birthday August 21 Monarch Butterfly Fall Migration Begins (2009), Hawaii becomes a state, Daffodil Day August 22 Ramadan begins, National Tooth Fairy Day August 23 Remembrance of Slave Trade and its Abolition August 24 Astronomers Demote Pluto to Dwarf Planet, Vesuvius Day August 25 First Landfall of Hurricane Katrina, National Park Service Established, "Wizard of Oz" film Released, Kiss and Make-Up Day, Sean Connery Birthday, Billy Ray Cyrus Birthday August 26 National Dog Day, 19th Amendment Signed into Law, Women's Equality Day, Pony Express Day August 28 Martin Luther King Gives "I Have a Dream" Speech, Leo Tolstoy Birthday, LeAnn Rimes Birthday August 29 Hurricane Katrina Devastates Gulf Coast, Michael Jackson Birthday, Senator John McCain Birthday August 30 Toasted Marshmallow Day, Frankenstein Day, Cameron Diaz Birthday August 31 Diana, Princess of Wales dies in auto accident Linda De Vore Media Center Director Casa Grande Middle School Casa Grande, AZ 85222 linda.devore@cgelem.k12.az.us "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles W. Eliot -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, you send a message to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * To contact an LM_NET Moderator: LM_NET-request@listserv.syr.edu * LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html * LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/ * LM_NET Wiki: http://lmnet.wikispaces.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------