What Day of the Week

August 24, 2019 was the 236^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 129 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

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

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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.
• 1812

  Peninsula War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.
• 1891

  Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
• 1909

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

  In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
• 1950

  Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
• 1954

  The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed.
• 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

  Colombian drug barons declare “total war” on the Colombian government.

• 1852

  Deacon White, American baseball player (d. 1919)
• 1897

  Fred Rose, American songwriter and publishing executive (d. 1954)
• 1901

  Preston Foster, American actor (d. 1970)
• 1927

  David Ireland, Australian author
• 1947

  Anne Archer, American actress
• 1953

  Ron Holloway, American tenor saxophonist
• 1955

  Mike Huckabee, American politician, Governor/Presidential candidate
• 1962

  Craig Kilborn, American talk show host
• 1964

  Éric Bernard, French racing driver
• 1975

  Mark de Vries, Surinamese-Dutch footballer

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