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Raising awareness about patents/copyrights/trademarks/designs, remembering your first kiss, the relationship between children and pets, pretzels, raising awareness about the struggles of equines, embracing an Australian, embracing a friend, the blooming of the pink flower Creeping Phlox, measuring the strength of earthquakes, and considering the plight of birds comprise today's holiday topics: Audubon Day Full Pink Moon Hug a Friend Day Hug An Australian Day National Help a Horse Day National Kids and Pets Day National Pretzel Day Remember Your First Kiss Day Richter Scale Day World Intellectual Property Day The Full Pink Moon is also known as the Breaking Ice Moon, Moon When the Streams Are Again Navigable, Budding Moon of Plants and Shrubs, Moon of the Red Grass Appearing, Moon When the Ducks Come Back, Moon When the Geese Lay Eggs, and Frog Moon, and the Sucker Fish Moon. Charles Richter , who would go on to develop the Richter Scale to measure the strength of earthquakes, was ...