What Day of the Week

August 11, 2021 is the 223^rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 142 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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

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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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• 106

  The south-eastern part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
• 1675

  Franco-Dutch War: forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
• 1918

  World War I: the Battle of Amiens ends.
• 1920

  The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia’s authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
• 1929

  Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
• 1942

  Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a frequency hopping, spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
• 1965

  Race riots (the Watts riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
• 1972

  Vietnam War: the last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
• 2003

  A heat wave in Paris results in temperatures rising to 112 °F, leaving about 144 people dead.
• 2003

  Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.

• 1878

  Oliver W F Lodge, English poet and writer (d. 1955)
• 1897

  Louise Bogan, American poet (d. 1970)
• 1912

  Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (d. 1954)
• 1926

  Claus von Bülow, Danish-born British socialite
• 1951

  Vincent Bilodeau, Canadian actor and comedian
• 1965

  Shinji Mikami, Japanese video game designer (Resident Evil)
• 1968

  Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist terrorist (d. 2009)
• 1976

  Will Friedle, American actor
• 1977

  Dênio, Brazilian footballer
• 1987

  Dany N'Guessan, French footballer

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