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International Clown Week

International Clown Week is held on August 1. This event in the first decade of the month August is annual.
International Clown Week is celebrated every August 1 to 7 to recognize the efforts clowns across the world put in just to make people laugh. The performances of clowns include music, storytelling, acrobatics, juggling, telling jokes, and performing magic tricks.
Clown Week was celebrated on a limited scale in the 1950s. In 1988 the first International Clown Week chairman was appointed by Ray Bickford, president of Clown Club of America. In 1992 Clown Club of America members were urged to write to their congressmen and senators requesting a presidential proclamation naming July 21–27 as National Clown Week. In 1969 a resolution was introduced. After clowns met with Senator John McClellan of Arkansas, who was chairman of the United States Senate subcommittee on Observances and Holidays, success was finally achieved.
Concurrently, Bill "Boom-Boom" Baily was an original member of Clowns of America when it was founded in 1967. Baily was named the U.S. Chairman of National Clown Week for that organization.
Source: wikipedia.org

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