What Day of the Week

August 22, 2019 is the 234^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 131 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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• 1654

  Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
• 1711

  Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker’s Quebec Expedition founders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.
• 1717

  Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
• 1902

  Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
• 1902

  Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
• 1971

  J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
• 1972

  Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
• 1989

  The first ring of Neptune is discovered.
• 1996

  Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
• 2007

  The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.

• 1771

  Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831)
• 1860

  Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German inventor (d. 1940)
• 1902

  Thomas Pelly, American politician (d. 1973)
• 1904

  Deng Xiaoping, Chinese statesman (d. 1997)
• 1913

  Leonard Pagliero, British stationer (d. 2008)
• 1915

  David Dellinger, American social rights activist (d. 2004)
• 1918

  Mary McGrory, American journalist (d. 2004)
• 1939

  Carl Yastrzemski, American baseball player
• 1967

  Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer (d. 1986)
• 1984

  Lawrence Quaye, Ghanaian–Qatari footballer

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