July 22. A day to recognize the rat-catchers who labor to exterminate members of the genus Rattus, disease-carrying rodents that infest most of the civilized world. Observed on the anniversary of the legendary feat of the Pied Piper of Hamelin on July 22, 1376 (according to 16th-century chronicler Richard Rowland Verstegen).

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