What Day of the Week

August 15, 2019 was the 227^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 138 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.

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

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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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• 982

  Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria
• 1018

  Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles blinds and captures Ibatzes of Bulgaria by a ruse, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance against Emperor Basil II’s conquest of Bulgaria.
• 1185

  The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
• 1939

  13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. There are no survivors.
• 1941

  Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 7:12 am, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for treason.
• 1963

  Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
• 1963

  President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
• 1971

  Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1998

  Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles
• 2005

  Israel’s unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.

• 1769

  Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican-born French military officer and Emperor of France (d. 1821)
• 1813

  Jules Grévy, French statesman (d. 1891)
• 1896

  Leon Theremin, Russian inventor (d. 1993)
• 1924

  Werner Abrolat, German actor (d. 1997)
• 1927

  Eddie Leadbeater, England cricketer (d. 2011)
• 1934

  Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer (d. 1998)
• 1938

  Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer
• 1950

  Tom Kelly, American baseball manager
• 1978

  Lilia Podkopayeva, Ukrainian gymnast
• 1978

  Stavros Tziortziopoulos, Greek footballer

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