Holidays 8.23
Holidays
Asian Corpsetwt Day [Every 23rd]
Battle of Kursk Day (Russia)
Black Ribbon Day (Baltic states)
The Blitz Begins (WW2; 1940; UK)
Daffodil Day [also 4th Friday]
European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism (EU)
Find Your Inner Nerd Day
Flag Day (Ukraine)
Goldfinch Day
Grand Mahal de Touba (Senegal)
Hashtag Day
Health Unit Coordinator Day
Hebron Massacre Anniversary (Israel)
Hug Your Sweetheart Day
International Blind Dog Day
International Day For the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (UN)
International Redhead Day
Internaut Day
Liberation from Fascist Occupation Day (Romania)
National Cheap Flight Day
National Doctors’ Day (Iran)
National Holiday (Socialist Republic of Romania)
National Levi Day
National Physicians Day (Iran)
National Plumber's Day
National Poetry Day (New Zealand)
National Sneak Off to the Beach Day
One-Way Street Day
Permanent Press Day
Pilot 823 Day
Purple Poppy Day (UK)
Ride the Wind Day
Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial Day
Schueberfouer Shepherd’s Fair begins (Luxembourg)
Singin’ in the Rain Day
Slavery Remembrance Day
Tansy Day
Tuberose Day (French Republic)
Umhlanga Day (Eswatini, f.k.a. Swaziland)
Valentino Day
Victory Over Germany in the Battle of Kursk Day (Russia)
William Wallace Day (Scotland)
Food & Drink Celebrations
Buttered Corn Day
Cuban Sandwich Day
National Spongecake Day
Peruvian Coffee Day (Peru)
Swedish Meatball Day
World Vada Pad Day (Maharashtra, India)
Independence & Related Days
Aerlig (Declared, 2001) [unrecognized]
Hong Kong (UK Takes from China; 1839-Non-Aggression Pact; 1939)
Kharkiv City Day (Ukraine)
Mexico (Treaty of Aquala Signed; 1821)
Open Rebellion Day (UK declared US Colonies; 1775)
4th Friday in August
Brother’s Day [1st Friday after Full Moon]
Comfort Food Friday [Every Friday]
Daffodil Day (Australia, Southern Hemisphere) [4th Friday]
Five For Friday [Every Friday]
Flashback Friday [Every Friday]
Forgive Your Foe Friday [Friday of Be Kind to Humankind Week]
Friday Finds [Every Friday]
Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]
International Pozole Day [4th Friday]
TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) [Every Friday]
Weekly Holidays beginning August 23 (3rd Full Week of August)
Health Unit Coordinators Week (thru 8.29)
Festivals Beginning August 23, 2024
Askov Rutabaga Festival and Fair (Askov, Minnesota) [thru 8.25]
Big Feastival (Kingham, United Kingdom) [thru 8.25]
Bosque Chile & Music Fest (Albuquerque, New Mexico) [thru 8.24]
Butler Italian Festival (Butler, Pennsylvania) [thru 8.25]
Chorus Inside International (Rovinj, Croatia) [thru 8.28]
Colorado State Fair (Pueblo, Colorado) [thru 9.2]
DeKalb Corn Fest (DeKalb, Illinois) [thru 8.25]
Espoo Ciné International Film Festival (Espoo, Finland) [thru 9.1]
Fallon Cantaloupe Festival & Country Fair (Fallon, Nevada) [8.25]
Fête Rouge Food & Wine Fête (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
German-American Festival (Oregon, Ohio) [thru 8.25]
Hill City Wine, Brew and BBQ(Hill City, South Dakota) [thru 8.24]
Humungous Fungus Fest (Crystal Falls, Michigan) [thru 8.24]
Indianapolis GreekFest - Indianapolis, Indiana
Mammoth Rocks & Music & Food Festival (Mammoth Lakes, California) [thru 8.24]
Northwest Art and Air Festival (Albany, Oregon) [thru 8.25]
Nebraska State Fair (Grand Island, Nebraska) [thru 9.2]
Old Fashioned Corn Roast Festival (Loveland, Colorado) 9thru 8.24]
Oregon State Fair (Salem, Oregon) [thru 9.2]
Potato Days Festival (Barnesville, Minnesota) [thru 8.24]
Roots Festival (Paola, Kansas) [thru 8.24]
Shrewsbury Folk Festival (Shrewsbury, United Kingdom.) [thru 8.26]
Soybean Festival (Mexico, Missouri) [thru 8.24]
Sylvester Swine Festival (Sylvester, Georgia) [thru 8.24]
Washington State Garlic Fest (Chehalis, Washington) (thru 8.25]
Whiskies of the World (Boston, Massachusetts)
World Food & Music Festival (Des Moines, Iowa) [thru 8.25]
Feast Days
Allan Kaprow (Artology)
Appollinaris Sidnonius, Bishop of Clermont (Christian; Saint)
Appreciate What You’ve Got Day (Pastafarian)
Ascelina (Christian; Saint)
Asterius, Claudius, Domnina, Neon, and Theonilla (Christian; Martyrs)
Chǔshǔ begins (China) [Thru 9.7]
Claudius, Asterius and Others (Christian; Martyrs)
Day of Hephaestos (Pagan)
Day of Nemesea (Old Roman Goddess Nemesis, defender of the relics & memory of the dead from insults)
Dick Bruna (Artology)
Dollond (Positivist; Saint)
Dunadd in Argyll (Celtic Book of Days)
Éogan of Ardstraw (Christian; Saint)
Ernie Bushmiller (Artology)
Eugene Lanceray (Artology)
Eugenius of Ireland (Christian; Saint)
Feast of Nemesis (Goddess of Fate; Ancient Greece)
Gaura Parba (Women’s Festival to Goddess Gauri; Nepal)
Great Feast of the Netjeru (All Gods/Goddesses; Ancient Egypt)
Hammer Fraggle (Muppetism)
Hannah Frank (Artology)
Janmashtami (Lord Krishna Nativity; Hindu)
Justinian the Hermit (Christian; Saint)
Keith Tyson (Artology)
Kirvis (Harvest Festival; Lithuania)
Lupus (a.k.a. Luppus) of Novae (Christian; Saint)
Nemeseia (Ancient Greece)
Nuclear Accident Day (Church of the SubGenius)
Philip Benitius (Christian; Saint)
Quiriacus and companions, of Ostia (Christian; Saint)
Rose of Lima (Christian; Saint)
Second Festival of Vertumnalia (Ripening Fruit; Ancient Rome; Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Theonas, Archbishop of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)
Tydfil (Christian; Saint)
Vertumnalia (Old Roman God of the Change of Seasons)
Vulcanalia (Ancient Roman festival to Vulcan)
William Ernest Henley (Writerism)
Willy Russell (Writerism)
Zacchaeus of Jerusalem (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Premieres
A-Hunting We Won’t Go (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1943)
Alice Adams (Film; 1935)
Angel Has Fallen (Film; 2019)
Animal Crackers (Film; 1930)
Barton Fink (Film; 1991)
Better Off Dead (Film; 1985)
The Big Sleep (Film; 1946)
Birdland (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)
Canadian Capers, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1931)
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White, recorded Perez Prado (Song; 1954)
Club Life in the Stone Age (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1940)
DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year (WB Animated Film; 2016)
The Death of Superman (WB Animated Film; 2018)
Drinking Buddies (Film; 2013)
Freeway (Film; 1996)
The Girl at the Ironing Board (WB MM Cartoon; 1934)
Going! Going! Gosh! (WB MM Cartoon; 1952)
Grace, by Jeff Buckley (Album; 1994)
Henry IV, Part 2, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1600)
Knighty Knight Bugs (WB LT Cartoon; 1958)
Lover, by Taylor Swift (Album; 2019)
Pass the Biscuits Mirandy! (Swing Symphony Cartoon; 1943)
Scotty Finds a Home (Rainbow Parade Cartoon; 1935)
She Loves You, by The Beatles (UK Song; 1963)
She’s the One (Film; 1996)
Sir Army Suit, by Klaatu (Album; 1978)
The Sun Also Rises (Film; 1957)
Superior Duck (WB Cartoon; 1996)
Superman: Man of Tomorrow (WB Animated Film; 2020)
Teen Wolf (Film; 1985)
That ’70s Show (TV Series; 1998)
Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz (WB Animated Film; 2011)
Woody’s Magic Touch (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1971)
The World’s End (Film; 2013)
Today’s Name Days
Isolde, Philipp, Rosa, Zachäus (Austria)
Rozalija, Ruža, Ružica (Croatia)
Sandra (Czech Republic)
Zakæus (Denmark)
Signe, Singe (Estonia)
Signe, Varma (Finland)
Rose (France)
Isolde, Rosa, Zachäus (Germany)
Bence (Hungary)
Fabrizio, Maria, Regina (Italy)
Benjamins, Ralfs, Spriditis, Vitālijs (Latvia)
Girmantas, Pilypas, Tautgailė (Lithuania)
Signe, Signy (Norway)
Apolinary, Benicjusz, Filip, Laurenty, Sulirad, Walerian, Waleriana, Zacheusz (Poland)
Filip (Slovakia)
Rosa (Spain)
Signe, Signhild (Sweden)
Eugene, Eugenia, Geena, Gena, Gene, Genie, Gina, Jina, River, Zacchaeus, Zaccheus (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 236 of 2024; 130 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 5 of Week 34 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 21 of 28]
Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 20 (Ji-Wei)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 19 Av 5784
Islamic: 17 Safar 1446
J Cal: 26 Purple; Fryday [26 of 30]
Julian: 10 August 2024
Moon: 80%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 11 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Dollond]
Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 1 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 65 of 94)
Week: 3rd Full Week of August
Zodiac: Virgo (Day 2 of 32)
Calendar Changes
Rad (Motion) [Half-Month 17 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 9.6)
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