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 French then this day of the week in French is mardi.

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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.
• 1258

  Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under, paving the way for its leader, Michael VIII Palaiologos, to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea.
• 1580

  Battle of Alcântara. Spain defeats Portugal.
• 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.
• 1920

  Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends. The Red Army is defeated.
• 1961

  President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power.
• 1991

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

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

• 1803

  Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, the Duque de Caxias, Brazilian military leader (d. 1880)
• 1836

  Bret Harte, American writer (d. 1902)
• 1867

  James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (d. 1951)
• 1903

  Arpad Elo, American chess writer (d. 1992)
• 1946

  Rollie Fingers, American baseball player
• 1948

  Nicholas A. Peppas, Greek chemical and biomedical engineer
• 1966

  Derek Sherinian, American keyboardist
• 1966

  Robert Maschio, American actor
• 1969

  Steve Staley, American voice actor
• 1977

  Jonathan Togo, American actor

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