What Day of the Week

August 21, 2018 is the 233^rd day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 132 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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• 1192

  Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)
• 1331

  King Stephen Uroš III, after months of anarchy, surrenders to his son and rival Stephen Dušan, who succeeds as King of Serbia.
• 1852

  Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
• 1863

  Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate guerrillas Quantrill’s Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre.
• 1945

  Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• 1963

  Xa Loi Pagoda raids: the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalises Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
• 1991

  Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
• 2001

  NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
• 2001

  The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
• 2007

  Hurricane Dean makes its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at 165 mph. Dean is the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5.

• 1665

  Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)
• 1816

  Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)
• 1906

  Friz Freleng, American movie animator (d. 1995)
• 1912

  Hector “Toe” Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)
• 1937

  Gustavo Noboa, former President of Ecuador
• 1939

  Festus Mogae, president of Botswana
• 1961

  Stephen Hillenburg, American animator and cartoonist
• 1965

  Caryn Mower, American actress, stuntwoman and former professional wrestler
• 1970

  Craig Counsell, American baseball player
• 1978

  Peter Buxton, English rugby union player

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