What Day of the Week

August 13, 2021 is the 225^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 140 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

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

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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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• 1704

  War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim – English and Austrian forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.
• 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.
• 1898

  Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engaged in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
• 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.
• 1913

  First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
• 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.
• 2004

  Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.
• 2008

  South Ossetian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.

• 1666

  William Wotton, English scholar (d. 1727)
• 1792

  Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort of the United Kingdom, wife of King William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1849)
• 1925

  Benny Bailey, American bebop and hard-bop jazz trumpeter
• 1952

  Hughie Thomasson, American guitarist (Outlaws, Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2007)
• 1959

  Bruce French, England cricketer
• 1959

  Michael Bradley, bassist and radio producer
• 1966

  Shayne Corson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970

  Elvis Grbac, American football player
• 1973

  Brittany Andrews, American pornographic actress
• 1984

  Niko Kranjčar, Croatian footballer

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