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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• 1848

  The United States annexes New Mexico.
• 1902

  Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
• 1910

  Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
• 1944

  World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces
• 1952

  The penal colony on Devil’s Island is permanently closed.
• 1962

  An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
• 1963

  American Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 106 km.
• 1972

  Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
• 1978

  The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
• 1985

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

• 1867

  Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
• 1895

  Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (d. 1966)
• 1913

  Leonard Pagliero, British stationer (d. 2008)
• 1920

  Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon
• 1936

  Dale Hawkins, American singer and songwriter (d. 2010)
• 1944

  Peter Hofmann, Czech-born German operatic tenor (d. 2010)
• 1948

  Eleonora Brown, Italian actress
• 1955

  Chiranjeevi, Indian film actor
• 1971

  Rick Yune, American actor
• 1975

  Sheree Murphy, British actress

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