What Day of the Week

August 22, 2021 was the 234^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 131 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is domingo.

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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.
• 565

  St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
• 1485

  The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
• 1831

  Nat Turner’s slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.
• 1849

  The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
• 1944

  World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces
• 1950

  Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
• 1952

  The penal colony on Devil’s Island is permanently closed.
• 2003

  Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
• 2006

  Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.

• 1895

  László Almásy, Hungarian aristocrat and aviator (d. 1951)
• 1935

  E. Annie Proulx, American author
• 1938

  Paul Maguire, American football commentator
• 1939

  Valerie Harper, American actress
• 1959

  Pia Gjellerup, Danish politician
• 1967

  Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002)
• 1968

  Horst Skoff, Austrian tennis player (d. 2008)
• 1971

  Richard Armitage, English actor
• 1972

  Steve Kline, American baseball player
• 1973

  Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)

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