What Day of the Week

August 18, 2019 is the 230^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 135 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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

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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.
• 1634

  Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
• 1864

  American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern – Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.
• 1868

  French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen discovers helium.
• 1877

  Asaph Hall discovers Martian moon Phobos.
• 1958

  Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bangali as well as the first Asian to ever do it. He became first among 39 competitors.
• 1963

  American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
• 1965

  Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
• 1971

  Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
• 1976

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

• 1720

  Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (d. 1760)
• 1822

  Isaac P. Rodman, American Union general (d. 1862)
• 1870

  Hugh Bromley-Davenport, England cricketer (d. 1954)
• 1952

  Elayne Boosler, American comedian
• 1953

  Louie Gohmert, American politician
• 1960

  Fat Lever, American basketball player
• 1964

  Craig Bierko, American actor
• 1970

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor
• 1984

  Robert Huth, German footballer
• 1988

  Luke Jackson (author), English Author

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