August is remembered for the most incredible relationship - Friendship. Friendship day is celebrated on every first Sunday of the August month. Your friends are he most important people in your life. You surely don't want to loose them.
This memorable day is observed to dedicate one day in the year for friendship. The United States Congress proclaimed the first Sunday as national friendship day. It is a tradition to exchange friendship bands on this lovely day. The tradition began in US in 1935.
Friendship Day is celebrated every year, on the first Sunday of August. In 2010, it will be celebrated on 1st August. The day for the occasion was declared by the US congress in 1935. The occasion began as a small event, to commemorate the relation shared by friends. Today, it has taken the shape of a grand festival. Gone are the days, when holidays such as Friendship Day were confined to the westerners. Today, since the world has turned into a global village, people in the rest of the world have adopted the festival wholeheartedly and celebrate it with great enthusiasm, just like any other occasion. They can easily relate them to the festival, because no one can merely survive without having at least a true friend in his/her life
