What Day of the Week

August 1, 2020 is the 214^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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

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Here’s the August calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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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• 1664

  The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
• 1834

  Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
• 1840

  Labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
• 1876

  Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
• 1964

  The Belgian Congo is renamed the Republic of the Congo.
• 1980

  Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland.
• 1980

  Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the country’s first democratically elected female head of state
• 1981

  MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles.
• 2001

  Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
• 2007

  The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.

• 1779

  Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843)
• 1815

  Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author (d. 1882)
• 1858

  Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
• 1881

  Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
• 1916

  Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal
• 1947

  Dennis Zine, Los Angeles city councilman
• 1950

  Jim Carroll, American poet and actor (d. 2009)
• 1952

  Yajurvindra Singh, Former Indian cricketer
• 1972

  Tanya Reid, Canadian actress
• 1973

  Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor

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