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 Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is viernes.

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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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• 1521

  Tenochtitlán (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernán Cortés.
• 1704

  War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim – English and Austrian forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.
• 1792

  King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2008

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

• 1311

  King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)
• 1662

  Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)
• 1764

  Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (d. 1816)
• 1949

  Jim Brunzell, American professional wrestler
• 1954

  Nico Assumpção, Brazilian bass player (d. 2001)
• 1961

  Christos Christodoulou, Greek basketball player
• 1963

  Sridevi, Indian actress
• 1964

  Hank Cheyne, American actor
• 1969

  Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater
• 1970

  Elvis Grbac, American football player

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