July 30 is Av 15...a festival day.
The Breaking of the Ax
and
The Dancing Maidens of Jerusalem

http://www.chabad.org/library/article.asp?AID=53680

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Aug 1 could be the real Tammuz 17 if Israel's Nisan 1 was a moonth too soon.

and

Aug 1 is also the occult Lammas Day.
August 1 is Lammas Day (loaf-mass day), the festival of the first wheat harvest of the year.

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the concert on the Temple Mount (July 27 to Aug 1)
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/june2007/jhs613.htm

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Aug. 1 is August Fools Day (You know......like April Fools Day). :- )