Tarantula Appreciation Day; Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day; Neighbours, by Rudyard Kipling.

Birthday of Roger Yates; Birthday of Bruce Friedrich; August, by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Farmworker Appreciation Day; Saturday on the Farm, by Edwin C. Ranck.

National Oyster Day; National Couscous Day; A Prayer for Breaking One’s Fast.

International Clouded Leopard Day; Birthday of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Birthday of Wayne Pacelle; Release of the film, Babe; To a Skylark, by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

National Watermelon Day; Birthday of Tobias Leenaert; Wortermelon Time, by James Whitcomb Riley.

International Golden Lion Tamarin Day; Birthday of Dr. Gemma Newman; Liz White became Leader of the Animal Protection Party in Canada; I No Longer Steal From Nature, by Al-Ma’arri.

Release of the Documentary Film, Land of Hope and Glory; Publication of Inside Animal Hearts and Minds: Bears That Count, Goats That Surf, and Other True Stories of Animal Intelligence and Emotion, by Belinda Recio; Publication of Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism, 10th Anniversary Edition, by Melanie Joy PhD; Publication of Impersonating Animals: Rhetoric, Ecofeminism and Animals Rights Law, by S. Marek Muller; August, by Lizette Woodworth Reese.

National Avocado Day; Problems With Hurricanes, by Victor Hernández Cruz.

National Whistleblower Day; Birthday of Finneas Baird O'Connell; Webinar - Roadmap Towards Phasing Out Animal Testing: Next Steps for Humane Science; Truth, by Victor Hugo.

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