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Events In August 2025
Database of events, awareness days, holidays, and promotions occurring in August of this year.
August Events
Tomatina, La (ES): August 27
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Food Fight! Who doesn't love a food fight? One hundred twenty tons of tomatoes are flung and flayed by 35,000 people for two hours each year in the town of Buñol, Spain. This is the La Tomatina Festival....
August
Bowtie Day, Ntl.: August 28
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The bowtie appears to have originated in Croatia during the 1600s. It was functional and decorative, keeping collars closed in much the same way we use cravats today. Of course, French aristocrats, always...
August
Cherry Turnover Day: August 28
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Cherry Turnover Day celebrates the pastry, the cherry turnover. A turnover is a baked pastry fashioned in a triangle stuffed with a sweet or savory filling. The turnover has been around since Roman times...
August
Cowal Gathering (Highland Games)(UK): Augu...
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The Cowal Gathering Highland Games are traditional athletic, cultural, and social events celebrating Scottish heritage with a long and rich history dating back over a thousand years. Originally they were...
August
Crackers Over the Keyboard Day: August 28
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Crackers Over The Keyboard Day is another Wellcat Holiday. Bring crackers and eat them over the keyboard; just hope they don't get caught under the keys!
August
Norman Rayford Day (US-PA)(1972): August 2...
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Norman Rayford was a unionist and a beacon of hope and compassion within the healthcare community of Philadelphia and medical unions nationwide. As part of the core group responsible for organizing 1199C...
August
Power Rangers Day, Intl. (1993): August 28
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On August 28, 1993, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers premiered on Fox Kids Network. With the creation of Saban Entertainment (Haim Saban and Shuki Levy), the Power Rangers became a cultural phenomenon dur...
August
Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day: Augu...
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Race Your Mouse Day Around the Icons Day is another silly holiday created by Wellcat. This celebration is about running the computer mouse on the computer screen while downloading or waiting for web pages...
August
Radio Commercial Day, Ntl. (1922): August...
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National Radio Commercial Day commemorates the anniversary of the first radio commercial on WEAF, a New York-based radio station, on August 28, 1922. The advertiser was Queensboro Realty, an American real...
August
Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day: August 28
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The term "Rainbow Bridge" refers to crossing over from life to the afterlife. Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day is about honoring pets that have crossed the bridge and left this life. If you're a pet paren...
August
Rishi Panchami (H): August 28
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Rishi Panchami is a female fasting day in the Hindu faith designed to purify a woman. Hinduism considers menstruation unclean, and women during their monthly cycle are not permitted to enter the kitchen...
August
Shrimp and Petroleum Festival, (US-LA): Au...
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Celebrating Louisiana's two most significant industries, oil, and shrimp, the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival features food, music, carnival rides, exhibitions, and family fun. This event first ra...
August
Weed Out Hate Day, Ntl. (1963): August 28
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Weed Out Hate Day memorializes Dr. Martin Luther King's most famous speech, "I have a Dream," delivered on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.
August
According to Hoyle Day (1769): August 29
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If you play card games, you've been influenced by Edward Hoyle, who died on this day in 1769. Hoyle published the defining book on rules for various games, "A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist," in 1742...
August
Blackpool Illuminations (UK): August 29 -...
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Drawing 3.5 million visitors a year, the Blackpool Illumination is a major tourist attraction since 1879. The spectacle of lights features over 400,000 lamps covering approximately 5 miles of waterfront a...
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