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08/31/2026

Hey Gang!!!! We will be closed Labor Day, Sept. 7th for Our Annual Amusement Park trip. We'll be back on the 8th, but the 7th, we'll all be HERSHEY PARK HAPPY!!!! Thanks All, The Park.

08/31/2026

On this day in 1888
Murderer strikes in London's Whitechapel district
Mary Ann Nichols, a servant and pr******te, is discovered dead on the street in Whitechapel, in London's East End. The slum area is notoriously violent, but authorities will begin to suspect a serial killer is at large when another woman is similarly killed just over a week later.

What was this Infamous Killer named? The Park.

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08/30/2026

On this day in 1970
Wight tops Woodstock as more than half a million rock.
Some 600,000 people crowd an English island as a five-day rock music concert comes to a close. Europe's answer to 1969's epoch-making Woodstock gathering, the Isle of Wight festival features headliner Jimi Hendrix in one of his last performances before his death less than a month later.

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08/29/2026

On this day in 2005
US Gulf Coast hammered by Hurricane Katrina.
Once roiling with Category 5 strength over the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Katrina has weakened, but it's still packing ferocious winds, as it makes landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana. A massive storm surge will breach levies, devastating that city as Katrina becomes one of the worst natural disasters in US history.

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08/28/2026

On this day in 1963
Dr. King delivers a speech of dreams in Washington, DC.
Standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, his voice ringing out to some 250,000 listeners, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers a stirring speech that will galvanize the civil rights movement and be heralded as one of the greatest orations in American history.

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08/27/2026

On this day in 1776
Washington loses to Howe in Brooklyn Heights
Less than two months a nation, the United States fights the largest Revolutionary War battle yet when George Washington and his 10,000 Continental Army troops battle General William Howe's 20,000-strong British force at Gowanus Pass in Brooklyn Heights to control New York City's strategic port.

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08/26/2026

Saddened that Dolly Parton passed yesterday. I don't think the WORLD will ever see another quite like Her. The Park.

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08/25/2026

On this day in 1916
US creates an agency for national parks.
President Woodrow Wilson signs the National Park Service Organic Act 'to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife therein.' The National Park Service will grow to oversee more than 400 areas, including national parks, other land areas, and historic structures.

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08/24/2026

SPAGHETTI MONDAY!!!!!
Stop in today for a plate of Spaghetti w/Meat Balls, Garlic Bread and a side salad, less than $10. Hope to see you all today. The Park.