What Day of the Week

August 24, 2021 is the 236^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 129 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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

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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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• 1815

  The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
• 1912

  Alaska becomes a United States territory.
• 1931

  France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty.
• 1941

  Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany’s systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
• 1942

  World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk and US carrier USS Enterprise heavily damaged.
• 1944

  World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
• 1963

  Don Schollander swims the 200-metre freestyle in less than 2 minutes for the first time, in a world record time of 1:58.
• 1989

  Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
• 1998

  First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
• 2006

  The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term “planet” such that Pluto is now considered a Dwarf Planet.

• 1750

  Letizia Ramolino, mother of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1836)
• 1893

  Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-born Israeli biochemist, recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1978)
• 1897

  Fred Rose, American songwriter and publishing executive (d. 1954)
• 1934

  Kenny Baker, English actor
• 1937

  Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, Nigerian politician (d. 1998)
• 1944

  Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1996)
• 1968

  Andreas Kisser, Brazilian guitarist (Sepultura)
• 1968

  Benoît Brunet, French Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981

  Chad Michael Murray, American actor
• 1983

  Marcel Goc, German ice hockey player

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