Surfing the Calendar
- National Inventor’s MonthAugust
- Get Ready for Kindergarten MonthAugust
- Meriwether Lewis’ BirthdayAug 18, 1774
- Nineteenth Amendment RatifiedAug 18, 1920
- Paula Danziger’s BirthdayAug 18, 1945
- Orville Wright’s BirthdayAug 19, 1871
- National Aviation DayAug 19, 2019
- Great American Solar EclipseAug 21, 2017
- Monarch Butterfly Fall Migration BeginsAug 22, 2019
- National Honey Bee DayAug 17, 2019
- Astronomers Demote Pluto to Dwarf PlanetAug 24, 2006
- National Park Service EstablishedAug 25, 1916
- “Wizard of Oz” film ReleasedAug 25, 1939
- First Landfall of Hurricane KatrinaAug 25, 2005
- 19th Amendment Signed into LawAug 26, 1920
- National Dog DayAug 26, 2019
- Women’s Equality DayAug 26, 2019
- U.S. Open TennisAug 26 - Sep 8, 2019
- Martin Luther King Gives “I Have a Dream” SpeechAug 28, 1963
- Hurricane Katrina Devastates Gulf CoastAug 29, 2005
- Diana, Princess of Wale’s DeathAug 31, 1997
- National Honey MonthSeptember
- National School Success MonthSeptember
- National Piano MonthSeptember
- National Save A Tiger MonthSeptember
- National DNA, Geonomics & Stem Cell Education MonthSeptember
- Library Card Signup MonthSeptember
- National 5-A-Day MonthSeptember
- Save the Koala MonthSeptember
- D.A.R.E. LaunchedSep 1, 1983
- Titanic Wreck DiscoveredSep 1, 1985
- Great Fire of LondonSep 2, 1666
- US Treasury EstablishedSep 2, 1789
- General Sherman Enters AtlantaSep 2, 1864
- Vietnam Independence DaySep 2, 1945
- Christa McAuliffe’s BirthdaySep 2, 1948
- Labor DaySep 2, 2019
- Treaty of Paris Ends American RevolutionSep 3, 1783
- Newspaper Carrier DaySep 4, 1833
- First Electric Light Installed in ManhattanSep 4, 1882
- Little Rock Nine greeted by National Guard at Central High SchoolSep 4, 1957
- Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin DiedSep 4, 2006
