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1.        Canada Day           National Postal Worker Day           First US Postage stamps sold-1847           International Joke Day         Leisel Skorpen           Harriet Beecher Stowe 2.       I Forgot Day           Jean Craighead George           Lorinda Bryan Cauley           Jack Gantos           Hermann Hesse           Nostradamus           Jean Jacques Rousseau           Ernest Hemingway 3.       Stay out of the Sun Day           Beginning of the Dog Days of Summer           Lavinia Debler           Franz Kafka           Jim Morrison 4.       Tom Sawyer Fence Painting Day           Independence Day-USA           National Country Music Day           Nathaniel Hawthorne           PInocchio           Neil Simon 5.       Anxiety Day           Anniversary of debut of the bikini           John Schoenherr          Meredith Ann Pierce 6.       National Fried Chicken Day           William Faulkner           Guy de Maupassant 7.       7-14 Running of the Bulls at Pamploma           Strawberry Sundae Day           Robert Heinlein           Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 8.        Video Games Day           Christopher G. Moore           James Cross Giblin           Percy Bysshe Shelley 9.        National Sugar Cookie Day           Nancy Farmer       10.      Teddy Bear's Picnic Day 11.      Cheer Up the Lonely Day           World Population Day          E.B. White 12.      Pecan Pie Day           Henry David Thoreau 13.      Embrace Your Geekness Day           National French Fry Day 14.      National Nude Day--(I don't make them up, I just post them!)             Bastille Day           Isaac Basheus Singer 15.      Cow Appreciation Day-hug a cow today!           Clement C. Moore          Anton Chekov 16.       Juggling Day 17.       Disneyland Opened-1955           Peach Ice Cream Day 18.      Texas Wren's BookCrossing Anniversary -(2002)*          William Makepeace Thackeray          Horatio Alger           Jane Austen          (*Am I allowed to do this?) 19.    Texas Wren **         (**Or this?) 20.      Ugly Truck Day                  Ice Cream Soda Day           Chess Day           Special Olympics Day           Moon Day-first man walked on the moon-1969           Francesco Petrarch 21.      National Junk Food Day           Ernest Hemingway           Crane Hart 22.       Pied Piper of Hamlin Day 23.      Mosquito Day           Raymond Chandler 24.       Amelia Earhart Day           Pioneer Day           Virtual Love Day           Marvin the Martian           Alexander Dumas 25.      Parent's Day           Samuel Taylor Coleridge           Eleanor Roosevelt 26.       Disability Independence Day           Aunt and Uncle Day           George Bernard Shaw           Bert from Sesame Street           Jan Berenstain           Aldous Huxley 27.      World Youth Day           Bugs Bunny           Gertrude Stein 28.     Beatrix Potter 29.      National Lasagna Day          David Niven 30.      Father-in-Law Day           National Cheesecake Day           Emily Bronte 31.      Mutts Day           Blue Moon           J.K.  Rowling