What Day of the Week

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

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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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• 1776

  The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
• 1873

  The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco’s famous cable car system.
• 1903

  Fall of the Ottoman Empire: an unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, takes place.
• 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.
• 1923

  As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding
• 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.
• 1944

  ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
• 2011

  Three Rapid City, South Dakota officers stop a group of suspicious people on Anamosa Street. One man pulls out a revolver and fires six shots, killing one officer, mortally wounding another, and injuring the third.

• 1891

  Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian and linguist (d. 1971)
• 1922

  Geoffrey Dutton, Australian author and historian (d. 1998)
• 1924

  James Baldwin, American writer (d. 1987)
• 1930

  Vali Myers, Australian painter (d. 2003)
• 1932

  Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (d. 2006)
• 1939

  Wes Craven, American film director
• 1951

  Freddie Wadling, Swedish singer and musician (The Leather Nun, Fleshquartet)
• 1955

  Caleb Carr, American novelist and military historian
• 1962

  Cynthia Stevenson, Canadian actress
• 1971

  Alice Evans, English actress

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