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Check out these August holidays and observances to celebrate in 2024. National Friendship Day and National Women’s Day are just a few you should know.
August 7 to 13: Exercise with Your Child Week, International Assistance Dog Week, National Farmers Market Week August 25 to 31: Be Kind to Humankind Week Monthly Observances in August 2023
Get a full list of August 2024 holidays and observances, like National Sisters Day, International Allyship Day, National Lemon Meringue Pie Day, and more.
[1] [2] It includes special events, holidays, federal and state observances, historic anniversaries, and more unusual celebratory traditions. [3] Bill Chase worked as a newspaper librarian and saw a need for "a single reference source for calendar dates, and for authoritative and current information about various observances throughout the year".
The ball drop at Times Square in New York City has become a national New Year's festivity. Traditional end of Christmas and holiday season. [8] January 15–21 (3rd Monday) Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. 26% [9] 34–38%
June 17 – New York Rangers, winners of the Stanley Cup championship. 1996 October 29 – New York Yankees championship in the World Series. 1998 October 17 – Sammy Sosa, Chicago Cubs right fielder, who hit 66 home runs that season, and for helping with relief of the effects of Hurricane Georges in the Dominican Republic. [7]
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1735 – Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true. 1763 – Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run: British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run.