What Day of the Week

August 29, 2019 was the 241^st day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 124 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was 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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• 708

  Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
• 1498

  Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Portugal.
• 1526

  Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
• 1758

  The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
• 1835

  The city of Melbourne, Australia is founded.
• 1930

  The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
• 1941

  Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
• 1943

  German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
• 1949

  Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
• 1996

  Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.

• 1777

  Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853)
• 1915

  Nathan Pritikin, American nutritionist (d. 1985)
• 1933

  Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
• 1943

  Dick Halligan, musician & composer
• 1971

  Alex Griffin, bassist, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
• 1975

  Juan Diego Botto, Argentine-Spanish actor
• 1975

  Kyle Cook, guitarist, Matchbox 20
• 1977

  Jo Weil, German actor
• 1977

  John Hensley, American actor
• 1979

  Ryan Shealy, American baseball player

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