What Day of the Week

August 19, 2021 is the 231^st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 134 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is 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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• 1666

  Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as “Holmes’s Bonfire”.
• 1745

  Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in Glenfinnan – the start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion, known as “the 45”.
• 1759

  Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Year’s War between Britain and France.
• 1813

  Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina’s Second Triumvirate.
• 1934

  The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
• 1940

  First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
• 1944

  World War II: Liberation of Paris – Paris rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
• 1953

  Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
• 1987

  Hungerford Massacre: in the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide.
• 1989

  Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events which began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

• 1557

  Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1608)
• 1743

  Madame du Barry, French courtesan (d. 1793)
• 1902

  J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (d. 1994)
• 1907

  Thruston B. Morton, American politician (d. 1982)
• 1914

  Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
• 1951

  Gustavo Santaolalla, Argentine film composer
• 1958

  Anthony Muñoz, American football player
• 1959

  Ricky Pierce, American basketball player
• 1962

  Valérie Kaprisky, French actress
• 1980

  Michael Todd, American musician (Coheed and Cambria)

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