What Day of the Week

August 21, 2019 is the 233^rd day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 132 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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

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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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• 1680

  Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.
• 1689

  The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
• 1831

  Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
• 1863

  Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate guerrillas Quantrill’s Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre.
• 1942

  World War II: a Nazi flag is installed atop the Mount Elbrus.
• 1959

  President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Hawaii’s admission is currently commemorated by Hawaii Admission Day
• 1968

  James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
• 1991

  Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.
• 1993

  NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
• 2001

  NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

• 1660

  Hubert Gautier, French scientist and civil engineer (d. 1737)
• 1801

  Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (d. 1876)
• 1908

  M. M. Kaye, British writer (d. 2004)
• 1928

  Bud McFadin, American football player (d. 2006)
• 1951

  Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
• 1976

  Alex Brooks, American ice hockey player
• 1976

  Jeff Cunningham, Jamaican American soccer player
• 1976

  Ramón Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1981

  Collie Buddz, (Colin Harper) Reggae & Dancehall artist
• 1988

  Louise Setara, English singer-songwriter

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