What Day of the Week

August 20, 2020 is the 233^rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 133 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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

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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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• 1083

  Canonization of the first King of Hungary, Saint Stephen and his son Saint Emeric.
• 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.
• 1920

  The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1926

  Japan’s public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
• 1938

  Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam – a record that still stands.
• 1940

  In Mexico City exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramon Mercader. He dies the next day.
• 1950

  Korean War: United Nations repel an offensive by North Korean divisions attempting to cross the Naktong River and assault the city of Taegu.
• 1988

  Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1988

  The Troubles: Eight British Army soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by a Provisional Irish Republican Army roadside bomb in Northern Ireland (see Ballygawley bus bombing).
• 1991

  Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: more than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union’s parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.

• 1887

  Phan Khoi, Vietnamese intellectual (d. 1959)
• 1897

  Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (d. 1970)
• 1918

  Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (d. 1974)
• 1937

  Jim Bowen, English comedian
• 1944

  Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
• 1949

  Norman Featherstone, South African cricketer
• 1954

  Tawn Mastrey, American disc jockey (d. 2007)
• 1955

  Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and writer
• 1963

  Uwe Bialon, German footballer
• 1979

  Haha, South Korean entertainer

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