Calendar

O1 • • World Wide Web Day Popular music television channel (MTV) was launched (1981) NATIONAL COLORING BOOK DAY (US)

O8 • • International Cat Day Wright Brothers publically show off their flying machine for the first time (19O8)

O9 • • Book Lovers Day Quit India movement begins in India (1942)

WORLD LION DAY

O3 • • National Watermelon Day (US) First Transatlantic voyage of Columbus began on this day (1492)

O4 • • International Clouded Leopard Day Anne Frank and her family is captured in Amsterdam (1944)

O5 • • International Traffic Light Day Partial nuclear test ban treaty is signed (1963)

O6 • • Cycle To Work Day US bombs Hiroshima (1945)

NATIONAL FRIENDSHIP DAY

11 • • Daughter And Son Day The Soviet space agency launches Vostok 3 (1962)

12 • • World Elephant Day The largest dinosaur fossil is found (199O)

I NTERNATIONAL LEFT HANDERS DAY

14 • • World Lizard Day Social Security Act is signed into law in the United States (1935)

INDEPENDENCE DAY (INDIA)

23 • • International Slave Remembrance Day First photograph of the Earth taken from the orbit of the moon (1966)

24 • • Vesuvius Day NATO is established (1949)

NATIONAL BURGER DAY

16 • • National Tell-A-Joke Day (US) The first transatlantic telegraph message is sent (1858)

17 • • World Calligraphy Day Venera 7 launched by the Soviet Union (197O)

18 • • Serendipity Day Martian Moon Phobos is discovered (1877)

WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY DAY

26 • • Women’s Equality Day Namibian war of independence begins (1966)

I NTERNATIONAL ROCK PAPER SCISSOR DAY

28 • • Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day Evergreen Bridge opens for traffic for first time (1963)

2O • • World Honey Bee Day Senegal withdraws from Mali federation (196O)

21 • • International Victims of Terrorism Day The Mona Lisa is stolen (1911) 29 • • Individual Rights Day Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb (1949)

3O • • Frankenstein Day Guion Stewart Bluford is launched into space (1983)

22 • • World Plant Milk Day France’s President Charles De Gaulle survives an assassination attempt (1962) 31 • • International Overdose Awareness Day Uzbekistan declares its Independence from the Soviet Union (1991)