August

Fun Facts

Traditional birthstone: peridot, sardonyx
Mystical birthstone: diamond
Ayurvedic birthstone: sapphire
Flower: yellow gladiolus
Chinese Floral Emblem: pear
Sun Signs: Leo / Virgo

Dates that vary from year to year

During 1st Week: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, Wales
1st Sunday: Scottish Bagpipe & Highland Dance Festival
2nd Saturday: Annual Carrot Festival, Creances, France
2nd Sunday: Family Day
3rd Saturday, every other year: Hopi Snake Dance
Last Sunday: Plague Sunday, Gloucestershire, UK
7th day of 7th Chinese moon: Double Seventh
15th Day of 7th Chinese moon: Chinese Hungry Ghosts Festival
Halfway through Sha’ban, 8th Islamic month: Shab-Barat
3rd Day of bright 1/2 of Shravna, 5th Hindu month: Teej
5th Day of bright 1/2 of Shravna, 5th Hindu month: Naga Panchami
9th Islamic month: Ramadan, Jul. 9, 2013

Weekly Observances

~Week 1~

National Psychic Week
Turtles International Awareness Week

~Week 2~

National Apple Week

~Week 3~

American Dance Week
National Aviation Week

~Week 4~

Be Kind to Humankind Week
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week

Monthly Observances

Foot Health Month
Harvest Month
National Catfish Month
National Parks Month
Peach Month
Romance Awareness Month

Daily Observances

1	Cheyenne Frontier Day Gule of August, Wales Homowo, Ghana Lady Day Eve Lammas National Raspberry Cream Pie Day St. Ethelwold’s Day
2	Dryads Day National Ice Cream Sandwich Day Nuestra Senora de los Angeles, Costa Rica Sinjks Alka, Yugoslavia St. Elias’ Day St. Sidwell’s Day
3	Bourguiba Harib Day, Turkey National Watermelon Day Minstrel’s Gathering, Germany Royal National Eosteddfod, Wales
4	National Chocolate Chip Day Peer Gynt Festival Days begin, Norway Vigil of St. Oswald
5	Grotto Day Joust of the Quintana, Italy National Mustard Day National Waffle Day Oyster Day St. James’ Day St. Oswald’s Day
6	Canadian Goose Festival National Root Beer Float Day Peace Festival, Japan St. Hormisdas’ Day Tan Hill Festival
7	National Raspberries ‘n Cream Day Pea Festival St. Albert of Trapani’s Day St. Cajetan’s Day
8	Burryman Festival, Scotland National Frozen Custard Day St. Dominic’s Day St. Hormisdas’ Day
9	Chih Nu, China Cranham Feast, Gloucestershire, UK National Polka Festival National Rice Pudding Day Popcorn Festival Singapore Independence Day
10	National S’Mores Day St. Lawrence of Rome’s Day St. Oswald of Northumbria’s Day Feast of Geraint
11	National Raspberry Bombe Day Night of the Shooting Stars Perseids; Meteor Night St. Susanna’s Day Zimbabwe Heroes’ Day
12	Glorious Twelfth; Grouse Lights of Isis National Toasted Almond Bar Day Season, Scotland St. Grouse’s Day St. Porcarius’ Day
13	Congo National Festival begins Festival of Huitzilopochtls, Aztec Festival of the Volcano, Antigua, Guatemala International Lefthanders Day National Filet Mignon Day
14	Assumption Eve, France Festival of Sassari, Sardinia La Torta dei Fieschi, Italy Liberty Tree Day, Massachusetts National Creamsicle Day St. Werenfrid’s Day V-J Day
15	Ferragosto, Italy Great Mother Goddess Day Lichtenstein National Day National Lemon Meringue Pie Day National Relaxation Day St. Mary’s Day
16	Bratwurst Festival Cyprus Independence Day Elvis Presley Day Monty Python Day National Rum Day Baba Au Rhum Day St. Roche’s Day St. Joachim’s Day St. Simplicianus’ Day St. Stephen of Hungray’s Day Watermelon Festival
17	Archeology Day Indonesia Independence Day National Vanilla Custard Day St. Hyacinth’s Day St. Mamas’ Day
18	Carrot Fest, Ontario, Canada National Ice Cream Pie Day St. Agapitus’ Day St. Helena’s Day
19	Afghanistan Independence Day National Aviation Day National Soft Ice Cream Day Potato Day St. John Eudes’ Day
20	Moon’s Birthday, Aztecs National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day St. Oswin’s Day St. Philbert’s Day St. Stephen’s Festival, Budapest, Hungary
21	Festival of Goliath, Ath, Belgium National Spumoni Day St. Bernard Tolomei’s Day St. Jane Frances de Chantal’s Day
22	Americas Cup Day Be An Angel Day Immaculate Heart of Mary Festival National Pecan Torte Day St. Symphorian’s Day
23	Day of Nemesea King Richard III Day Kirvis, Lithuania Festival of Fire National Plumber’s Day National Spongecake Day Permanent Press Day Schuetzenfest, Germany St. Apollinaris’ Day St. Rose of Lima’s Day Vertumnalia
24	National Peach Pie Day Schaferlauf, Germany St. Bartholomew’s Day St. Owen of Rouen’s Day
25	Begonia Festival, Belgium Hershey Pennsylvania Dutch Days begin International Zucchini Festival National Banana Split Day St. Louis of France’s Day St. Joseph Calasanctius’ Day
26	Ilmatar, Finland National Cherry Popsicle Day St. Zephyrinnus’ Day Susan B. Anthony Day, Massachusetts Welling Pioneer Day, Canada
27	Moldova National Day National Pots de Creme Day Nativity of Isis Notting Hill Carnival, London St. Caesarius’ Day St. Monica’s Day
28	Dream Day Quest and Jubilee National Cherry Turnover Day St. Augustine of Hippo’s Day St. Hermes’ Day
29	Feast of Augustus National Whisky Sour Day St. Sabina’s Day
30	Charisteria International Pow Wow Ceremony, Gallup, NM National Toasted Masrhmallow Day Santa Rosa de Lima, Peru St. Fiacre’s Day St. Pammachius’ Day
31	Grape Blessing Day, Armenia National Trail Mix Day St. Aidan’s Day Trinidad and Tobago Independence Day

National Days refer to the USA unless stated otherwise.

Jewish and Muslim holidays begin the previous day at sundown.

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