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:
“I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.”
—J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)
“That is the thankless position of the father in the family—the provider for all, and the enemy of all.”
—J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)
“I saw the spiders marching through the air,
Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day
In latter August when the hay
Came creaking to the barn.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
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