What Day of the Week

August 27, 2020 is the 240^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 126 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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

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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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• 1172

  Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned as junior king and queen of England.
• 1793

  French counter-revolution: the port of Toulon revolts and admits the British fleet, which lands troops and seizes the port leading to Siege of Toulon.
• 1810

  Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
• 1828

  Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Argentina-Brazil War.
• 1916

  Romania declares war against Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.
• 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).
• 1991

  Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
• 1993

  The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo’s Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
• 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.
• 2009

  The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.

• 1845

  Ödön Lechner, Hungarian architect (d. 1914)
• 1865

  James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935)
• 1904

  John Hay Whitney, American financier (d. 1982)
• 1917

  Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player (d. 1986)
• 1935

  Frank Yablans, American film producer
• 1948

  Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
• 1970

  Jim Thome, American baseball player
• 1971

  Aygül Özkan, German politician
• 1976

  Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
• 1979

  Giovanni Capitello, American filmmaker and actor

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