August 25 Holidays

National Park Service Founders Day marks August 25, 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Park Service Organic Act, creating the agency tasked with protecting 423 national parks, monuments, and recreation areas covering more than 85 million acres. Milad an-Nabi (Mawlid) is the Islamic observance of the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday — the 12th of Rabi’ al-Awwal in the lunar Islamic calendar — celebrated with prayers, recitations of the Prophet’s life, charitable giving, and processions in Muslim communities worldwide. National Banana Split Day celebrates the three-scoop sundae invented by David Strickler at the Tassel Pharmacy in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, in 1904 — three scoops of ice cream in a sliced banana boat, drowned in three sauces with whipped cream, nuts, and a cherry. Kiss and Make Up Day was created to encourage couples, family members, and friends to resolve longstanding disputes and restore broken relationships. A 1916 act, a lunar birthday, a three-sauce sundae, and a reconciliation.