What Day of the Week

August 25, 2023 is the 237^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 128 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

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

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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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• 1248

  The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.
• 1537

  The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
• 1768

  James Cook begins his first voyage.
• 1916

  The United States National Park Service is created.
• 1950

  President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation’s railroads to avert a strike.
• 1989

  Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan’s first female cabinet secretary.
• 1989

  Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
• 1991

  Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union
• 1991

  Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
• 1991

  The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August–November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence

• 1530

  Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (d. 1584)
• 1803

  Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, the Duque de Caxias, Brazilian military leader (d. 1880)
• 1829

  Carlo Acton, Italian composer and concert pianist (d. 1909)
• 1911

  Vo Nguyen Giap (Võ Nguyên Giáp), Vietnamese general and statesman
• 1913

  Don DeFore, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1946

  Charles Ghigna (Father Goose), American poet and children’s author
• 1958

  Tim Burton, American film director
• 1962

  Vivian Campbell, Irish musician (Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Dio)
• 1976

  Damon Jones, American basketball player
• 1998

  China Anne McClain, American actress

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