What Day of the Week

August 20, 2019 was the 232^nd day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 133 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was 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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• 1794

  Battle of Fallen Timbers – American troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat.
• 1858

  Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace’s same theory.
• 1920

  The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1944

  World War II: 168 captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being “terror fliers”, arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
• 1955

  In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
• 1960

  Senegal breaks from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence.
• 1977

  Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
• 1991

  Estonia, annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of historical continuity of her pre-World War II statehood.
• 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.
• 2008

  Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. 146 people are killed in the crash, and 8 more die later. Only 18 people survive.

• 1632

  Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704)
• 1778

  Bernardo O'Higgins, South American revolutionary (d. 1842)
• 1932

  Atholl McKinnon, South African cricketer (d. 1983)
• 1934

  Armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen
• 1937

  Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian film director
• 1937

  El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2007)
• 1940

  Rubén Hinojosa, American politician
• 1941

  Jo Ramirez, Mexican motor racing team manager and author
• 1967

  Colin Cunningham, American actor
• 1980

  Rochelle Gadd, British actress

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