August 17th Holidays
🛒 Thrift Shop Day
🇺🇸 National Black Cat Appreciation Day - USA
🇺🇸 National I LOVE My Feet Day - USA
🇺🇸 National Meaning of «Is» Day - USA
🇺🇸 Stay Home with Your Kids Day - USA
🇺🇸 National Vanilla Custard Day - USA
🇺🇸 Baby Boomers Recognition Day - USA
🇺🇸 National Nonprofit Day - USA
🇺🇸 National Massachusetts Day - USA
🇺🇸 Balloon Airmail Day - USA
🇺🇸 Indonesian American Friendship Day - USA
🇨🇦 Discovery Day - Canada
🇳🇱 Heart Day (Hartjesdag) - Netherlands
🇦🇺 Cupcake Day - Australia
🇮🇩 Indonesia’s Independence Day (Hari Kemerdekaan)
🇨🇴 Engineer’s Day (DÃa del Ingeniero) - Colombia
🇮🇳 Nag Panchami (Naga Puja, नाग पंचमी) - India, Nepal
🇸🇮 Prekmurje Union Day (Dan združitve prekmurskih Slovencev) - Slovenia
🇹🇯 Day of Emergency Situations and Civil Defense Workers (Рӯзи кормандони хадамоти ҳолатҳои фавқулодда ва мудофиаи гражданӣ) - Tajikistan
🇹🇯 Railway Workers Day (Рӯзи кормандони роҳи оҳан) - Tajikistan
🇬🇦 Gabonese Independence Day (Fête nationale du Gabon)
🇧🇴 Bolivian Flag Day (DÃa de la Bandera Boliviana)
🇯🇲 Marcus Garvey Day - Jamaica
This Day in History
• On August 17, 1771, English chemist, Joseph Priestley, began an experiment in which he discovered photosynthesis 255 yr.
• On August 17, 1903, Joseph Pulitzer offered Columbia University $2 million to found the world's first school of journalism and begins Pulitzer Prizes 123 yr.
