National Dog Day
Invented by a pet-lifestyle expert in 2004; adopted by basically every dog owner with a phone since. Shelters get a bump in adoptions.
- Category
- Animal
- Observed in
United States
Canada
Also on this day
Full history →Notable · 2015
Two American journalists were murdered on live television while conducting an interview in Moneta, Virginia.- 2023Exactly 5 years after the 2018 Jacksonville Landing shooting, there is another shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, leaving 3 people dead.
- 2021During the 2021 Kabul airlift, a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport kills 13 US military personnel and at least 169 Afghan civilians.
- 2018Three people are killed and eleven wounded during a mass shooting at a Madden NFL '19 video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida.