What Day of the Week

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

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

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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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• 49 BC

  Julius Caesar’s general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio commits suicide to avoid capture.
• 1690

  Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city has no birthday).
• 1820

  Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
• 1870

  The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
• 1898

  Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
• 1909

  Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
• 1937

  In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
• 1954

  Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
• 1981

  Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
• 1991

  Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.

• 1113

  Geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)
• 1578

  John Taylor, English poet (d. 1653)
• 1845

  James C. Calhoun, American soldier, brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1876)
• 1901

  Preston Foster, American actor (d. 1970)
• 1922

  Howard Zinn, American historian and activist (d. 2010)
• 1944

  Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (d. 1986)
• 1967

  Michael Thomas, English footballer
• 1978

  Derek Morris, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979

  Orlando Engelaar, Dutch footballer
• 1983

  Marcel Goc, German ice hockey player

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