What Day of the Week

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

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is samedi.

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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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• 30 BC

  Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
• 527

  Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
• 902

  Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabid army.
• 1800

  The Act of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1801

  First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
• 1842

  The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.
• 1894

  The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
• 1957

  The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
• 1960

  Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
• 1980

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

• 1579

  Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)
• 1940

  Ram Loevy, Israeli screenwriter and director
• 1949

  Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kyrgyzstan
• 1953

  Howard Kurtz, American journalist
• 1953

  Robert Cray, American singer
• 1960

  Chuck D, American activist and rapper (Public Enemy)
• 1962

  Jacob Matlala, South African boxer
• 1981

  Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
• 1986

  Lucas Simón, Argentine footballer
• 1991

  Marco Puntoriere, Italian footballer

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