What Day of the Week

August 20, 2018 was the 232^nd day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 133 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

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

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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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• 1672

  Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague.
• 1710

  War of the Spanish Succession: a multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by the Marquis de Bay in the Battle of Saragossa.
• 1940

  British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line “Never was so much owed by so many to so few”.
• 1940

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

  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.
• 1998

  The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government’s approval.
• 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.
• 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.

• 1856

  Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (d. 1909)
• 1919

  Walter Bernstein, American screenwriter
• 1927

  Yootha Joyce, English actress (d. 1980)
• 1934

  Tom Mangold, British journalist and author
• 1949

  Nikolas Asimos, Greek composer and singer (d. 1988)
• 1970

  John D. Carmack, American computer game programmer
• 1972

  Chaney Kley, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1974

  Amy Adams, American actress
• 1977

  Mayra Veronica, Cuban model and actress
• 1988

  Jerryd Bayless, American basketball player

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