More Special Days in August

August 16
~ Beatrice S. DeRegniers' birthday (1914)  Children's picture book author

August 18
~ The first mail-order catalog was published by Montgomery Ward in 1872. It was a single sheet of paper

August 19
~ Orville Wright's birthday (1871)  Co-Inventor of the First Successful Airplane
~ National Aviation Day
~ William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton's birthday (1946)  42nd President of the United States
~ Ogden Nash's birthday (1902)  A master of light, whimsical, and sometimes nonsensical verse
~ California gold strike in 1848

August 20
~Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the US was born in 1833. He was the grandson of William Henry Harrison, the 9th president of the US

August 23
~ Martin Luther King, prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C. in 1963

August 25
~ The movie The Wizard of Oz was first released in 1939

August 26
~ Women's Equality Day

August 27
~ Lyndon Baines Johnson's birthday (1908)  36th President of the United States
~ "Mother Teresa's" birthday (1910)   Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was a Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship.  "As to my calling, I belong to the world."

August 28
~ Allen Say's birthday (1937)  Author and an illustrator
~ Tasha Tudor's birthday (1915)  American illustrator and author of children's books

August 28
~ Virginia Lee Burton's birthday (1909)  American illustrator and children's book author

August 30
~ Donald Crews' birthday (1938)  Author and Illustrator

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