What Day of the Week

August 27, 2022 is the 239^th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 126 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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

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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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• 410

  The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
• 1810

  Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
• 1813

  French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
• 1828

  Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Argentina-Brazil War.
• 1859

  Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world’s first commercially successful oil well.
• 1883

  The eruption of Krakatoa
• 1896

  Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
• 1969

  Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage a mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt.
• 1993

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

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

• 1871

  Theodore Dreiser, American author (d. 1945)
• 1895

  András Alföldi, Hungarian-born historian and archaeologist (d. 1981)
• 1904

  John Hay Whitney, American financier (d. 1982)
• 1906

  Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
• 1909

  Lester Young, American musician (d. 1959)
• 1914

  Heidi Kabel, German actress (d. 2010)
• 1916

  Tony Harris, South African cricketer (d. 1993)
• 1924

  David Rowbotham, Australian poet
• 1927

  Jimmy C. Newman, American Country and Western and Cajun Singer
• 1980

  Kyle Lowder, American actor

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