What Day of the Week

August 24, 2020 is the 237^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 129 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.

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

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Here’s the August calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Virgo 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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• 1561

  Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.
• 1662

  The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
• 1875

  Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim the English Channel
• 1914

  World War I: German troops capture Namur.
• 1929

  Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
• 1933

  The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane.
• 1936

  The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
• 1949

  The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.
• 1991

  Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1991

  Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.

• 1905

  Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone (d. 1988)
• 1911

  Viktor Barna, Hungarian table tennis player (d. 1972)
• 1920

  Alex Colville, Canadian painter
• 1934

  Kenny Baker, English actor
• 1936

  A. S. Byatt, English novelist
• 1936

  Kenny Guinn, American politician (d. 2010)
• 1944

  Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1996)
• 1952

  Bob Corker, American politician, junior senator of Tennessee
• 1954

  Alain Daigle, French Canadian ice hockey player
• 1962

  Craig Kilborn, American talk show host

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