What Day of the Week

August 2, 2020 is the 215^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 151 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is domingo.

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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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• 1610

  Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
• 1776

  The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
• 1798

  French Revolutionary Wars: the Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
• 1873

  The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco’s famous cable car system.
• 1916

  World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
• 1923

  As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding
• 1945

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

• 1820

  John Tyndall, British physicist (d. 1893)
• 1868

  King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
• 1912

  Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian statistician (d. 2001)
• 1915

  Gary Merrill, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1957

  Butch Vig, American record producer and drummer (Garbage)
• 1969

  Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
• 1972

  Daniele Nardello, Italian cyclist
• 1972

  Jacinda Barrett, Australian model and actress
• 1973

  Jay Meetze, American conductor and impresario
• 1989

  Vanes-Mari Du Toit, South African netballer

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