What Day of the Week

August 2, 2019 is the 214^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 151 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

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

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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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• 338 BC

  A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
• 1790

  The first US Census is conducted.
• 1870

  Tower Subway, the world’s first underground tube railway, opens in London.
• 1897

  Anglo-Afghan wars: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand region of colonial India’s North West Frontier Province.
• 1916

  World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
• 1918

  Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
• 1922

  A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50,000 people.
• 1944

  ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
• 1973

  A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
• 1989

  Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.

• 1865

  Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933)
• 1868

  King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
• 1925

  Alan Whicker, British journalist and broadcaster
• 1933

  Ioannis Varvitsiotis, Greek politician
• 1941

  Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter (d. 1986)
• 1942

  Isabel Allende, Chilean author
• 1950

  Kathryn Harrold, American actress
• 1962

  Lee Mavers, English musician, lead singer with The La’s
• 1973

  Reyn Ouwehand, Dutch C=64 Composer
• 1976

  Mohammad Zahid, Pakistani cricketer

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