What Day of the Week

August 20, 2019 is the 232^nd day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 133 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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

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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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• 636

  Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia.
• 1083

  Canonization of the first King of Hungary, Saint Stephen and his son Saint Emeric.
• 1308

  Pope Clement V pardons Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, absolving him of charges of heresy.
• 1914

  World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.
• 1920

  The National Football League, (NFL), is founded in the United States.
• 1944

  World War II: the Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet offensive.
• 1955

  In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
• 1988

  Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1993

  After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
• 1998

  U.S. embassy bombings: the United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

• 1779

  Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848)
• 1856

  Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (d. 1909)
• 1946

  Ralf Hütter, German musician (Kraftwerk)
• 1955

  Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and writer
• 1958

  John Stehr, American journalist
• 1977

  Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
• 1980

  Langhorne Slim, American country singer
• 1981

  Bernard Mendy, French footballer
• 1982

  Barney Rogers, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1991

  Marko Đoković, Serbian tennis player

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