August 6 Holidays

National Root Beer Float Day celebrates the combination of root beer poured over vanilla ice cream — invented by Frank Wisner in 1893 at the Cripple Creek Brewing Company in Colorado, who reportedly was inspired by the snowy peaks of Cow Mountain seen from his hotel window. Bolivia Independence Day marks August 6, 1825, when the Congress of Upper Peru declared Bolivia’s independence from Spain, naming the new nation after Simón Bolívar, who had led the independence campaigns across South America. Farmworker Appreciation Day was established to honor the agricultural workers who plant, tend, and harvest the food supply — an estimated 3 million seasonal and migrant farmworkers in the U.S. alone, who are among the lowest-paid and most economically vulnerable workers in the country. Balloons to Heaven Day was created to provide a ritual for people grieving loved ones, releasing balloons as a symbolic farewell message. Fizz, a Bolívar-named nation, a harvest hand, and a balloon.