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Events In August 2025
Database of events, awareness days, holidays, and promotions occurring in August of this year.
August Events
Jewelry Day, Wear Your Mother's: August 8
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Today is the day to show off your inherited jewelry and tell the story behind it. Wear Your Mother's Jewelry Day was created in 2017 by lifestyle publishing company Feldman Publishing.
August
Lahaina Fire (US-HI)(2023): August 8
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August 26, 2023—Wildfires have ravaged Hawaii's Maui and Big Island, resulting in at least 115 deaths, and over 2,200 buildings destroyed forcing thousands to evacuate, and wreaking havoc on the historic...
August
Nane-Nane, Farmers' Day, (TZ): August 8
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Farmers' Day or Nane-nane (Eight-eight in Swahili) is a national holiday in Tanzania that honors the contributions of farmers to the national economy.
August
Shabbat Nachamu (J): August 8/9
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Shabbat Nachamu commemorates the comfort experienced during the suffering of the Jewish people in the time of Isaiah. Shabbat is "Sabbath" or Saturday in Hebrew, and it is the first of the seven Sabbaths...
August
Top 8 Challenge Day (AU): August 8
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Held on August 8 (8/8) each year, Top 8 Challenge Day encourages people to take the day and focus on what they eat. For one meal or the whole day on the 8/8, do not eat any of the top 8 allergenic foods...
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Varalakshmi Vrat (H): August 8
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Varalakshmi Vrata celebrates the reincarnation of the goddess Lakshmi. Reincarnation is a central belief in Hinduism. Married women fast on this day, praying for their family's well-being and, specifical...
August
Zucchini onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day: A...
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If you've ever had a garden, then you know by the end of summer, you have zucchini coming out of your ears. Sneak Zucchini onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day is your chance to get rid of some of that extra he...
August
Book Lovers Day, Intl.: August 9
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Book Lover's Day encourages people to pick up a book and read it for the day. Celebrating Book Lovers Day is simple. Buy that book you've always wanted to read. Rearrange your home library or host a par...
August
Bowling Day, Ntl.: August 9
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National Bowling Day in the U.S. celebrates bowling, a game involving lanes, balls, and pins. Various forms of bowling have existed since ancient times. However, the country that invented bowling as we...
August
Garage Sale Day, Ntl.: August 9
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National Garage Sale Day occurs on the second Saturday of August. Garage sales grew out of a port custom of ship captains, and they sold excess and unclaimed cargo on the docks at a discount in rummage...
August
Indigenous People's Day, World (1982): Aug...
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World Indigenous People’s Day is a United Nations-sponsored event recognizing the contributions of the indigenous people in protecting the environment. Indigenous people are those native to the land befor...
August
Middle Child's Day: August 9
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Elizabeth Walker created Middle Child’s Day in 1986 to highlight children often left out. The eldest gets attention because they are the first, and the youngest, quite precocious, gets away with much, lea...
August
Moon—Full: August 9
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A full moon occurs when the moon is illuminated by the sun and on the opposite side of the earth. Its ecliptic longitude is 180 degrees. For centuries, people have applied names to full moons to track th...
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Nagasaki Bombing (JP)(1945): August 9
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The United States of America dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in 1945, one on Hiroshima and the other on Nagasaki. Today is the anniversary of the second. Tragically, Nagasaki was not the first choice o...
August
Narali Purnima (H): August 9
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Narali Poornima occurs on the full moon of the month of Shravan (Sawan). Naral is Hindi for "coconut." Offerings of coconuts are made to the sea gods as part of this ritual to mark the beginning of the...
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