July 5 Holidays

National Bikini Day marks July 5, 1946, when French designer Louis Réard unveiled the two-piece swimsuit at the Piscine Molitor in Paris, naming it after Bikini Atoll, where nuclear tests had just been conducted — the bomb metaphor was intentional. Algeria Independence Day marks July 5, 1962, when Algeria gained independence from France after the Algerian War of Independence — an eight-year conflict that cost an estimated 500,000 Algerian lives. National Apple Turnover Day celebrates the pastry of spiced apple filling folded into a buttered triangle of puff pastry — a format that appears in English and French pastry traditions from the 18th century. National Graham Cracker Day honors the whole-wheat cracker invented by Sylvester Graham in the 1830s as part of his temperance-and-vegetarianism movement — a cracker whose original health framing survived its eventual transformation into s’more substrate.