What Day of the Week

August 25, 2020 is the 238^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 128 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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• 1768

  James Cook begins his first voyage.
• 1825

  Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
• 1894

  Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
• 1912

  The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
• 1914

  World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
• 1942

  World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
• 1945

  Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
• 1981

  Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn
• 1991

  The Airbus A340 aircraft makes it’s first flight.
• 1997

  Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.

• 1913

  Don DeFore, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1933

  Patrick McManus, American outdoor humor writer
• 1933

  Wayne Shorter, American jazz musician (Miles Davis, Weather Report)
• 1951

  Rob Halford, English singer (Judas Priest)
• 1964

  Blair Underwood, American actor
• 1964

  Dan Parent, American comic book artist and writer
• 1964

  Marti Noxon, American television writer and producer
• 1977

  Diego Corrales, American boxer (d. 2007)
• 1987

  James Wesolowski, Australian footballer
• 1992

  Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer

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