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• Holidays/special occasions:
  • Lughnasadh (Pagan; cross-quarter day) / Lammas (Christian; Scottish quarter day)

• TV events:
  • Shark Week on Discovery Channel

• DVD releases:
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid
  • Kick-Ass
  • Naruto Shippuden - box set 3

• Movie openings:
  • The Other Guys

• DVD releases:
  • Crumb (Criterion Collection)
  • Date Night
  • Max Headroom - complete series
  • Titan Maximum - season 1

• Holidays/special occasions:
  • Ramadan begins (Islamic; 1st Ramadan, 1431 A.H.)

• Movie openings:
  • The Expendables
  • Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
• TV events:
  • Den Brother TV movie airs, 8pm EDT on Disney Channel

• Holidays/special occasions:
  • Obon (Festival of the Dead; Chinese lunar calendar) (Buddhist; Japan)

• Holidays/special occasions:
  • Napoleon Bonaparte's birthday, 1769

• Historic events:
  • Woodstock Festival (Bethel, NY, 1969)

• Movie openings:
  • Vampires Suck

• Holidays/special occasions:
  • Gene Roddenberry's birthday, 1921

• DVD releases:
  • Lost - season 6

• Events:
  • American Folk Festival (Bangor, Maine)

• Historic events:
  • I Have A Dream speech delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963

• DVD releases:
  • The Vampire Diaries - season 1

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