What Day of the Week

August 27, 2018 was the 239^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 126 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

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

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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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• 1810

  Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
• 1861

  Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
• 1921

  The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali (leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
• 1922

  The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Greeks.
• 1979

  A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Shortly after, 18 British Army soldiers are killed in an ambush near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland (see Warrenpoint ambush).
• 1982

  Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada’s capital. Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide claim responsibility, saying they are avenging the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
• 1991

  Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
• 1993

  The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo’s Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
• 2003

  Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34646418 mi distant.
• 2006

  Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.

• 1677

  Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1748)
• 1868

  Hong Beom-do, Korean independence activist (d. 1943)
• 1903

  Ferenc Keserű, Hungarian water polo player (d. 1968)
• 1921

  Leo Penn, American film director (d. 1998)
• 1926

  Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2002)
• 1943

  Bob Kerrey, former American Governor and Senator
• 1953

  Peter Stormare, Swedish-born actor
• 1959

  Downtown Julie Brown, Welsh TV personality and MTV VJ
• 1971

  Aygül Özkan, German politician
• 1973

  Dietmar Hamann, German footballer

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