What Day of the Week

August 1, 2021 was the 213^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 152 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

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

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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.
• 902

  Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabid army.
• 1498

  Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
• 1838

  Non-labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
• 1894

  The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
• 1907

  The start of first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
• 1914

  Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilises because of World War I.
• 1937

  Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution “Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH” to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
• 1944

  The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
• 1960

  Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.

• 1815

  Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author (d. 1882)
• 1891

  Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
• 1941

  Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1945

  Sandi Griffiths, American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show
• 1946

  Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
• 1946

  Rick Coonce, rock drummer for The Grass Roots
• 1963

  Koichi Wakata, Japanese astronaut
• 1977

  Yoshi Tatsu, Japanese professional wrestler and boxer
• 1987

  Sébastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer
• 1989

  Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player

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