What Day of the Week

August 18, 2018 was the 230^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 135 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

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

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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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• 1590

  John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
• 1848

  Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
• 1868

  French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen discovers helium.
• 1877

  Asaph Hall discovers Martian moon Phobos.
• 1903

  German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
• 1958

  Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
• 1966

  Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phuoc Tuy Province.
• 1976

  In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
• 1977

  Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William’s Town, South Africa. He would later die of the injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to South Africa’s apartheid policies.
• 2000

  A federal jury finds the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.

• 1792

  John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1878)
• 1909

  Gérard Filion, French Canadian businessman and journalist (d. 2005)
• 1921

  Lydia Litvyak, Soviet pilot, one of only two female flying aces (d. 1943)
• 1931

  Bramwell Tillsley, Canadian Salvation Army general
• 1943

  Martin Mull, American comedian
• 1956

  Jon “Bermuda” Schwartz, American musician
• 1962

  Geoff Courtnall, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1969

  Isaac Austin, American basketball player
• 1972

  Shaun Wilson, Australian artist
• 1985

  Julen Goikoetxea, Spanish Basque cyclist (d. 2006)

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