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Hard to fathom the beginning of August today!
If you’re like me, WTH happened.
We blinked and we are days away from Labour Day 2017.
Here are the highlights of this month!

Tuesday’s History Lesson: August 1st is the 213th day of the year. There are 152 days remaining until the end of the year

There are 34 days remaining until Labor Day

There are 40 days remaining until Grandparents Day

Today is Homemade Pie Day, National Girlfriends Day, National Night Out, National Raspberry Cream Pie Day, Respect for Parents Day, Spiderman Day, Woman Astronomers Day and World Wide Web Day

— On this date in 1498, Christopher Columbus landed on American soil .. he named the ‘island’ Isla Santa

— On this date in 1778, the world’s first savings bank was opened in Hamburg, Germany

— On this date in 1941, the first Jeep was produced

— On this date in 1942, Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead was born in San Francisco.

— On this date in 1961, Six Flags Over Texas, the first Six Flags theme park, opened

— On this date in 1962, Spiderman debuted

— On this date in 1964, Hasbro Toys introduced GI Joe

— On this date in 1973, “American Graffiti” opened.

— On this date in 1981, MTV premiered .. The first video shown was Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles.

— On this date in 1986 John McEnroe and Tatum O’Neal got married.

— On this date in 1994, Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirmed rumors that they had married eleven weeks earlier

— On this date in 2005, Baltimore Orioles first baseman Raphael Palmeiro was suspended for 10 days following a positive test for steroids.

— On this date in 2007, Whoopi announced she was taking over as the moderator of The View

— On this date in 2007, a Minneapolis bridge collapsed sending as many as 9 cars into the Mississippi River. The Interstate 35W bridge, which runs between Minneapolis and St. Paul, was under construction when it broke into several huge sections. 50 vehicles were demolished. A school bus full of children was on the bridge when it collapsed

— On this date in 2011, Lindsay Lohan’s ex, Samantha Ronson, got busted for a DUI outside of Baker, California. She was driving her black Porsche home from Las Vegas when she was stopped for speeding. She failed a field sobriety test and was placed under arrest after refusing to submit to a breathalyzer test.

— On this date in 2013, Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro was sentenced to life in prison