What Day of the Week

August 13, 2019 was the 225^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 140 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is martes.

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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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• 3114 BC

  According to the Lounsbury correlation, the start of the Maya calendar.
• 1792

  King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
• 1831

  Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.
• 1906

  The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged.
• 1918

  Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
• 1942

  Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the “Development of Substitute Materials” project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
• 1954

  Radio Pakistan broadcasts the “Qaumī Tarāna”, the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
• 1968

  Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
• 1969

  The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
• 1977

  Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.

• 1662

  Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)
• 1918

  Frederick Sanger, English chemist, two-time Nobel Laureate
• 1940

  Bill Musselman, American basketball head coach (d. 2000)
• 1941

  Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
• 1961

  Dawnn Lewis, American actress
• 1964

  Jay Buhner, American baseball player
• 1966

  Shayne Corson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970

  Will Clarke, American novelist
• 1972

  Michael Sinterniklaas, French American actor
• 1984

  James Morrison, British singer

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