What Day of the Week

August 22, 2020 is the 235^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 131 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is samedi.

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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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• 392

  Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
• 1639

  Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
• 1851

  The first America’s Cup is won by the yacht America.
• 1950

  Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
• 1968

  Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
• 1971

  J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
• 1985

  Manchester Air Disaster sees 55 people killed when a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester Airport.
• 1989

  The first ring of Neptune is discovered.
• 1992

  FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
• 1996

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

• 1800

  Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (d. 1865)
• 1836

  Archibald MacNeal Willard, American artist (d. 1918)
• 1874

  Max Scheler, German philosopher (d. 1928)
• 1891

  Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian/American sculptor (d. 1973)
• 1900

  Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
• 1950

  Lewis Libby, American White House Chief of Staff for George W. Bush
• 1967

  Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer (d. 1986)
• 1975

  Sheree Murphy, British actress
• 1979

  Jennifer Finnigan, Canadian-born actress
• 1979

  Matt Walters, American football player

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