What Day of the Week

August 29, 2021 is the 241^st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 124 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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

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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).
• 1756

  Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years’ War.
• 1778

  American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
• 1825

  Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
• 1869

  The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world’s first rack railway.
• 1930

  The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
• 1943

  German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
• 1944

  Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
• 1970

  Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar.
• 1982

  The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.

• 1805

  Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
• 1916

  George Montgomery, American actor (d. 2000)
• 1923

  Hiralal Gaekwad, Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
• 1926

  Betty Lynn, American actress
• 1959

  Stephen Wolfram, British physicist and mathematician
• 1960

  Tony MacAlpine, American guitarist
• 1967

  Jiří Růžek, Czech photographer
• 1969

  Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
• 1976

  Pablo Mastroeni, American soccer player
• 1993

  Liam Payne, Member of British/Irish boy band One Direction

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