What Day of the Week

August 12, 2018 was the 224^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 141 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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• 1323

  Signature of the Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod (Russia), that regulates the border between the two countries for the first time.
• 1480

  Battle of Otranto: Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam.
• 1687

  Battle of Mohács: Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottomans.
• 1793

  The Rhône and Loire (Lêre) départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two.
• 1851

  Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
• 1883

  The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
• 1952

  The Night of the Murdered Poets: 13 prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow.
• 1964

  Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England.
• 1964

  South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country’s racist policies.
• 1985

  Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.

• 1859

  Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (d. 1929)
• 1902

  Mohammad Hatta, first Vice President of Indonesia (d. 1980)
• 1923

  John Holt, Jamaican West Indies cricketer (d. 1997)
• 1949

  Rick Ridgeway, American mountaineer
• 1972

  Mark Kinsella, Irish footballer
• 1976

  Richard McCourt, English children’s television presenter
• 1979

  Cindy Klassen, Canadian speed skater
• 1979

  D.J. Houlton, American baseball player
• 1989

  Tom Cleverley, English footballer
• 1990

  Enzo Pineda, Filipino television actor

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