What Day of the Week

August 13, 2020 is the 226^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 140 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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

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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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• 1553

  Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva as a heretic.
• 1868

  A massive earthquake near Arica, Peru, causes an estimated 25,000 casualties, and the subsequent tsunami causes considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.
• 1898

  Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
• 1913

  First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
• 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.
• 1968

  Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
• 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.
• 2004

  156 Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
• 2004

  Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.
• 2011

  The main stage collapses at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis during a hurricane-force wind gust ahead of an approaching severe thunderstorm, killing 7 and injuring 45.

• 1819

  George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist (d. 1903)
• 1906

  Miklós Borsos, Hungarian sculptor (d. 1990)
• 1920

  Neville Brand, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1926

  Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician
• 1945

  Lars Engqvist, Swedish politician
• 1961

  Neil Mallender, England cricketer
• 1971

  Rolando Molina, Salvadoran-born American actor
• 1973

  Molly Henneberg, American journalist
• 1980

  Panagiotis Markouizos, Greek figure skater
• 1984

  James Morrison, British singer

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