Wednesday August 20, 2025
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

is the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are until the end of the year. The day of the week is .

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Suiyōbi.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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by the Numbers

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  • year, months, and days ago
  • months since then
  • is in the th week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is not a leap year

Historical Event(s)

1308
Pope Clement V pardons Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, absolving him of charges of heresy.
President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line “Never was so much owed by so many to so few”.
Viking Program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
The Troubles: Eight British Army soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by a Provisional Irish Republican Army roadside bomb in Northern Ireland (see Ballygawley bus bombing).
Estonia, annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of historical continuity of her pre-World War II statehood.
A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. 146 people are killed in the crash, and 8 more die later. Only 18 people survive.

Who were born on ?

1517
Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (d. 1586)
1561
Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (d. 1633)
Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (d. 1783)
Alby Roberts, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1978)
Yootha Joyce, English actress (d. 1980)
El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2007)
Al Roker, American television personality
Tawn Mastrey, American disc jockey (d. 2007)
Todd Helton, American baseball player
Matej Delač, Croatian footballer

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