August
- International FriendshipDay- August 5
- International CatDay /World CatDay –August 8 High Paw Media (accessed 8/8/2012)
- Manipur Patriots'Day –August 13
- Victory over JapanDay –August 14/August 15
- Pakistan IndependenceDay –August 14
- Indian IndependenceDay –August 15
- International PhotographyDay – 19thAugust 1839, Daguerreotype was presented as a gift from France "free to theworld".
- World MosquitoDay –August 20
- Indian Akshay UrjaDay –August 20
- World FashionDay –August 21
- EuropeanDay of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism –August 23
- Known as the Black RibbonDay in Canada
- "World Doctorates Day" - August 25 (Proposed by Prof. Kamal Kant Dwivedi, Vice Chancellor, Apeejay Stya University and Founder of Global Network of Doctorates)
- International Sex BombDay –August 30
- Malaysian IndependenceDay –August 31 Month
- Connected Educators Monthttp://connectededucators.org/
Week
- 1–7World Breastfeeding Week
Day
- 9 InternationalDay of theWorld's Indigenous People
- 12 International YouthDay *13 International Lefthander's Day
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Famous quotes containing the word august:
“Ancient of days! august Athena! where,
Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul?
Gone—glimmering through the dream of things that were.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“That night ended the day when history was written in Abilene. August 14, 1865 was the date. That was the end of the first drive on the Chisolm Trail. It was just the first of thousands of such drives bringing beef to the world.”
—Borden Chase [Frank Fowler] (1900–1971)
“If August passes
flowerless,
and the frosts come,
will I have learned to rejoice enough
in the sober wonder of
green healthy leaves?”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
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