What Day of the Week

August 24, 2022 is the 236^th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 129 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Suiyōbi.

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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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• 410

  The Visigoths under king Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.
• 1200

  King John of England, signee of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angouleme in Bordeaux Cathedral.
• 1349

  Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
• 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.
• 1909

  Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
• 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.
• 1937

  In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
• 1991

  Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1992

  Hurricane Andrew makes landfall just south of Miami as a Category 5 hurricane.

• 1902

  Fernand Braudel, French historian (d. 1985)
• 1911

  Michel Pablo, Greek Trotskyist leader (d. 1996)
• 1919

  Enrique Llanes, Mexican professional wrestler (d. 2004)
• 1927

  Harry Markowitz, American economist, Nobel laureate
• 1940

  Francine Lalonde, Quebec politician
• 1943

  John Cipollina, American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (d. 1989)
• 1963

  Hideo Kojima, Japanese video game director
• 1973

  Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer
• 1977

  Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer
• 1988

  Dávid Verrasztó, Hungarian swimmer

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