What Day of the Week

August 15, 2020 is the 228^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 138 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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

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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.
• 1843

  The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.
• 1920

  Battle of Warsaw so called Miracle at the Vistula.
• 1940

  An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbour during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.
• 1961

  Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
• 1969

  The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opens.
• 1971

  Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1971

  President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
• 1999

  Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.

• 1785

  Thomas De Quincey, English author (d. 1859)
• 1901

  Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician (d. 1975)
• 1912

  Julia Child, American cook and TV personality (d. 2004)
• 1919

  Huntz Hall, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1938

  Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer
• 1942

  Larry Hartsell, American martial arts instructor (d. 2007)
• 1949

  Richard Deacon, Welsh sculptor
• 1969

  Bernard Fanning, Australian singer/songwriter (Powderfinger)
• 1969

  Kevin Cheng, Hong Kong actor and singer
• 1972

  Jennifer Alexander, Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007)

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