What Day of the Week

August 12, 2023 is the 224^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 141 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is 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

  Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide, allegedly by means of an asp bite.
• 1099

  First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces led by Al-Afdal Shahanshah. This is considered the last engagement of the First Crusade.
• 1323

  Signature of the Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod (Russia), that regulates the border between the two countries for the first time.
• 1831

  French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attempt to suppress the Belgian Revolution.
• 1914

  World War I: the United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.
• 1977

  The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
• 1982

  Mexico announces it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spreads to all of Latin America and the Third World.
• 1985

  Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
• 1992

  Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
• 2000

  The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.

• 1566

  Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (d. 1633)
• 1629

  Tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676)
• 1880

  Radclyffe Hall, British poet, novelist and LGBT activist (d. 1943)
• 1887

  Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
• 1910

  Yusof bin Ishak, first President of Singapore (d. 1970)
• 1931

  William Goldman, American screenwriter
• 1958

  Jürgen Dehmel, German bass player and songwriter (Nena)
• 1960

  Greg Thomas, England cricketer
• 1972

  Gyanendra Pandey, Indian cricketer
• 1980

  Dominique Swain, American actress

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