What Day of the Week

August 2, 2021 is the 214^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 151 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.

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

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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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• 216 BC

  Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
• 1776

  The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1945

  World War II: the Potsdam Conference, at which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, is concluded.
• 1985

  Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
• 1989

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

• 1890

  Marin Sais, American actress (d. 1971)
• 1924

  Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1925

  Alan Whicker, British journalist and broadcaster
• 1931

  Eddie Fuller, South African cricketer (d. 2008)
• 1950

  Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate (d. 1994)
• 1955

  Caleb Carr, American novelist and military historian
• 1967

  Aaron Krickstein, American tennis player
• 1971

  Alice Evans, English actress
• 1975

  Ingrid Rubio, Spanish actress
• 1977

  Edward Furlong, American actor

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