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August is . . . .
National Catfish Month,
National Golf Month
National Eye Exam Month
National Water Quality Month
Romance Awareness Month
Peach Month
Foot Health Month

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Romance Awareness Month, like Valentine’s Day, serves as an important reminder to celebrate your love relationship. And although it’s common sense, it’s still not common practice.

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August 2
1769 - The city of Los Angeles was named on this day
1824 - Fifth Avenue was opened in New York City
1861 - The United States Congress passed the first income tax. The revenues were intended for the war effort against the South. The tax was never enacted.<!--08-->
1939 - Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging the U.S. to have an atomic weapons research program
1945 - The Allied conference at Potsdam was concluded.
1964 - The Pentagon reported the first of two North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1990 - Iraq invaded the oil-rich country of Kuwait. Iraq claimed that Kuwait had driven down oil prices by exceeding production quotas set by OPEC.

August 3
1492 - Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain with three ships. The voyage would lead him to what is now known as the Americas. He reached the Bahamas on October 12.
1914 - Germany declared war on France. The next day World War I began when Britain declared war on Germany
1923 - Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the US after the sudden death of President Harding.
1988 - The Soviet Union released Mathias Rust. He had been taken into custody on May 28 1987 for landing a plane in Moscow's Red Square
1990 - Thousands of Iraqi troops pushed within a few miles of the border of Saudi Arabia. This heightened world concerns that the invasion of Kuwait could spread.
1992 - The US Senate voted to restrict and eventually end the testing of nuclear weapons
1992 - Russia and Ukraine agreed to put the Black Sea Fleet under joint command. The agreement was to last for three years.

August 4
1693 Dom Perignon invents champagne
1916 US agrees to buy Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million
1927 Peace Bridge between US & Canada opened
1969 Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, US representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
1971 US launches first satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft

Norway : Peer Gynt Festival Days
Trinidad & Tobago : Discovery Day (1498)
US : Coast Guard Day (1790)
Virgin Islands : Nicole Robin Day
Arizona, Michigan : American Family Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Italy : Joust of the Quintana (1st Sunday) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Bahamas, Barbados, Turks & Caicos Island : Emancipation Day (1838) - - - - - ( Monday )
British Commonwealth : Bank Holiday - - - - - ( Monday )
Canada : Civic Holiday (1st Monday) - - - - - ( Monday )
Colorado : Colorado Day (1876) - - - - - ( Monday )
Jamaica : Independence Day (1962) - - - - - ( Monday )
St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla : August Monday - - - - - ( Monday )
US : National Smile Week begins - - - - - ( Monday )
Grasmere England : Rush-Bearing Day - - - - - ( Saturday )

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Augst 6
1806 Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
1815 US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli
1825 Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day)
1854 Congress passes Confiscation Act
1914 Austria-Hungary declares war against Russia
1914 Serbia declares war against Germany
1934 US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915
1944 Deportation of 70,000 jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins
1945 Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay"
1962 Jamaica gains independence from Britain
1965 Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights
1990 UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstentions Cuba & Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq