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National Zoo Awareness Day; The Panther, by Rainer Maria Rilke.

International Whale Shark Day; Birthday of Mary Shelley; Birthday of Sylvia Earle; A quote from Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley.

Individual Rights Day; Birthday of Henry Bergh; Liberty, by James Whitcomb Riley.

Birthday of Jennifer Coolidge; Publication of “Animal Ethics and Behavioral Science: An Overdue Discussion,” in BioScience Journal; Sonnet: To Science, by Edgar Allan Poe.

National Peach Day; Birthday of Tony Kanal; Peach, by D. H. Lawrence.

World Painted Dog Day; Amy Soranno Gave Her Statement; A Portion of Amy Soranno’s Statement.

National Coconut Week; Birthday of Marti Kheel; Publication of Companion Animal Ethics, by Peter Sandøe, Sandra Corr, and Clare Palmer; Vendor of Green Coconuts, by Muna Lee.

William Wilberforce Day; Birthday of Antoine Goetschel; Publication of Animals, Culture, and Cruelty: Writings 2006 - 2015, by Kelly Overton; A Reading from, “Abolition Speech,” by William Wilberforce.

Publication of The Thirty-Day Vegan Challenge, by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau; Publication of Vegan Ethics: AMORE—Five Reasons to Choose Vegan, by Lisa Kemmerer; Publication of Be a Plant Based Woman Warrior: Live Fierce, Stay Bold, Eat Delicious: A Cookbook, by Jane and Ann Esselstyn; For Fear, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

World Plant Milk Day; Publication of Lament of Hathor: An Egyptian Cow Goddess Speaks on Behalf of Non-Human (and Human) Liberation, by Samuel Baca-Henry; The Pasture, by Robert Frost.

International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism; World Goat Day; PETA was Incorporated; A Divine Image, by William Blake.

National Bacon Lovers’ Day; A Prayer, by Carol J. Adams.

World Orangutan Day; National Potato Day; Birthday of Alex Pacheco; Birthday of Gary Yourofsky; The Potato, by Lillian E. Curtis.

Never Give Up Day; Protection of Animals Act; Birthday of Madeleine Petsch; Publication of The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals, by Katja Guenther; Keep Going, by Edgar Guest.

World Eggplant Day; Publication of Animal Farm, by George Orwell; A Reading from The Animal Farm, by George Orwell.

St. Roch’s Day; Birthday of James Cameron; Birthday of Evanna Lynch; Publication of The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds, by Leigh Calvez; There Was a Child Went Forth Every Day, by Walt Whitman.

International Homeless Animals Day; Stray - Documentary directed by Elizabeth Lo; Publication of Animal Ethics for Veterinarians, edited by Clair and Andrew Linzey; Stray Cat, by Francis Witham.

World Lizard Day; The Lizard, by Edwin Markham.

International Wolf Day; A Night with a Wolf, by Bayard Taylor.

World Elephant Day; The Blind Men and the Elephant, by John Godfrey Saxe.

The Death of the Prophet Muhammad; National Fufu Day; Portion of the tenth-century Muslim story, The Case of the Animals Versus Man.

World Lion Day; Publication of Fighting Nature: Travelling Menageries, Animal Acts and War Shows, by Peta Tait; The Lion Going To War, by Jean de La Fontaine.

National Book Lovers Day; There is no Frigate Like a Book, by Emily Dickinson.

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; Publication of The End of Captivity?: A Primate’s Reflections on Zoos, Conservation, and Christian Ethics, by Tripp York; Truth, by Victor Hugo.

International Tiger Day; The Tyger, by William Blake.

National Sea Star Day; Starfish, by Mary Oliver.

National Tree Day; First Episode of The Animal Law Podcast; City Trees, by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

World Mangrove Day; World Tofu Day; Birthday of George Bernard Shaw; Buddha, by Vachel Lindsay.

Birthday of Celia Hammond; Publication of Black Rican Vegan: Fire Plant-Based Recipes from a Bronx Kitchen, by Lyana Blount; The International Vegan Food Festival; Sanctuary, by Dora Sigerson Shorter.

Birthday of Gene Baur; Arrests of Joseph Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane; Publication of Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain: A Social History, by A.W.H. Bates; Publication of Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays, Revised Edition, by Candace Savage; Dust of Snow, by Robert Frost.

World Whale and Dolphin Day; National Lemon Day; Birthday of Woody Harrelson; Lemonade, Author unknown.

National Mango Day; Animal Law Day; Birthday of Karl Menninger; Menninger Quote.

No Pet Store Puppies Day; Publication of Peter Scarborough’s Research; The Sparrow, by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev.

Birthday of David DeGrazia; Release of the documentary film, Your Mommy Kills Animals; Release of the album, In Violation of Asa, by Repentance; In Summer, by Lord Alfred Douglas.

National Urban Beekeeping Day; Birthday of Brian May; Birthday of Michael Klaper, M.D.; Birthday of Victor Kossakovsky; In Life's Garden, by Dixie Willson.

National Caviar Day; Birthday of Peace Pilgrim; Birthday of Ann Esselstyn; Quote from Peace Pilgrim.

Birthday of Geezer Butler; Publication of Why Animal Suffering Matters: Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics, by Andrew Linzey; Publication of Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity, by David Kirby; Publication of Science News Article: “In a ‘perfect comeback,’ some birds use antibird spikes to build their nests”; Quote from Andrew Linzey.

World Snake Day; National Cherry Day; Publication of Confronting Animal Abuse: Law, Criminology, and Human-Animal Relationships, by Piers Beirne; Loveliest of Trees, by A. E. Housman.

Celebration of the Horse Day; Publication of How to Be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World, by Mari Andrew ; Horses, by Witter Bynner; Isaiah 63:13.

National Be Nice to Bugs Day; Insects, by John Clare.

Release of the documentary film, Fin; The Sharks, by Denise Levertov.