What Day of the Week

August 2, 2018 was the 214^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 151 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.

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

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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.
• 1798

  French Revolutionary Wars: the Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
• 1830

  Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.
• 1869

  Japan’s samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
• 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.
• 1939

  Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon.
• 1944

  ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
• 1989

  A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
• 1990

  Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.

• 1858

  Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1934)
• 1865

  John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (d. 1955)
• 1939

  Benjamin Barber, American political theorist
• 1939

  John W. Snow, American 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 1955

  Caleb Carr, American novelist and military historian
• 1955

  Tony Godden, English footballer
• 1961

  Cold 187um, American rapper (Above the Law)
• 1975

  Xu Huaiwen, Chinese-born German badminton player
• 1979

  Reuben Kosgei, Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner
• 1980

  Ugur Rifat Karlova, Turkish TV and stage entertainer

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