What Day of the Week

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

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Getsuyōbi.

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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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• 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).
• 1870

  Tower Subway, the world’s first underground tube railway, opens in London.
• 1873

  The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco’s famous cable car system.
• 1923

  As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding
• 1934

  Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
• 1937

  The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
• 1943

  Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
• 1973

  A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
• 1980

  A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
• 2005

  Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.

• 1835

  Elisha Gray, American inventor and entrepreneur (d. 1901)
• 1922

  Gábor Agárdy, Hungarian actor (d. 2006)
• 1924

  Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1944

  Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian jazz percussionist and vocalist
• 1948

  Andy Fairweather Low, Welsh guitarist (Amen Corner)
• 1949

  James Fallows, American journalist
• 1951

  Per Westerberg, Swedish politician
• 1980

  Ivica Banović, Croatian footballer
• 1983

  Nick Diaz, American MMA fighter
• 1988

  Brittany Hargest, American singer

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