What Day of the Week

August 15, 2018 was the 227^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 138 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Suiyōbi.

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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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• 1248

  The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid. (Construction is eventually completed in 1880.)
• 1261

  Michael VIII Palaeologus is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.
• 1281

  Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a “divine wind” for the second time in the Battle of Kōan.
• 1914

  The First Russian Army, led by Pavel Rennenkampf, enters Eastern Prussia.
• 1973

  Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.
• 1975

  Bangladesh’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
• 1977

  The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the “Wow! signal” from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
• 1995

  In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
• 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.

• 1844

  Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1908)
• 1858

  E. Nesbit, English author (d. 1924)
• 1910

  Signe Hasso, Swedish actress (d. 2002)
• 1922

  Giorgos Mouzakis, Greek songwriter and musician (d. 2005)
• 1949

  Richard Deacon, Welsh sculptor
• 1957

  Željko Ivanek, Slovenian-American actor
• 1969

  Bernard Fanning, Australian singer/songwriter (Powderfinger)
• 1973

  Adnan Sami, British-born Pakastani music composer and singer
• 1974

  Tomasz Suwary, Polish footballer
• 1980

  Nathalie Press, English actress

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