What Day of the Week

August 13, 2018 was the 225^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 140 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

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

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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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• 1516

  The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis I of France recognises Charles’s claim to Naples, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, recognises Francis’s claim to Milan.
• 1521

  Tenochtitlán (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernán Cortés.
• 1913

  First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
• 1918

  Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
• 1918

  Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
• 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.
• 1961

  The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants’ attempts to escape to the West.
• 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.
• 1979

  The roof of the uncompleted Rosemont Horizon near Chicago, Illinois collapses, killing 5 workers and injuring 16.

• 1823

  Goldwin Smith, English-born Canadian historian and journalist (d. 1910)
• 1904

  Charles ‘Buddy’Rogers, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1917

  Sid Gordon, American baseball player (d. 1975)
• 1944

  Divina Galica, British athlete and racing driver
• 1955

  Hideo Fukuyama, Japanese racing driver
• 1961

  Dawnn Lewis, American actress
• 1970

  Elvis Grbac, American football player
• 1970

  Matt Hyson, American professional wrestler
• 1974

  Jarrod Washburn, American baseball player
• 1984

  Niko Kranjčar, Croatian footballer

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