WORLD Elephant Day
INTERNATIONAL Youth Day
NATIONAL Middle Child Day
NATIONAL Vinyl Record Day
NATIONAL Bowling Day [second Saturday in August]
NATIONAL Garage Sale Day [second Saturday in August]
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1851 Issac Singer patented the sewing machine
1865 British surgeon Joseph Lister became the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery
1896 Gold is discovered near Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada
1898 Hawaii was formally annexed to the United States
1908 Henry Ford‘s first Model T rolls off the assembly line
1935 President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Bill
1981 Computer giant IBM introduces its first personal computer, running PC-DOS 1.0
1992 The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is concluded between the United States, Canada and Mexico, creating the world’s wealthiest trade bloc
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