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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• 1498

  Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Portugal.
• 1521

  The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.
• 1655

  Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge.
• 1786

  Shays’ Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
• 1835

  The city of Melbourne, Australia is founded.
• 1871

  Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
• 1915

  US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
• 1958

  United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
• 1982

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

• 1843

  David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)
• 1905

  Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d. 1979)
• 1939

  Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, Hungarian athlete
• 1953

  James Quesada, Nicaraguan/American anthropologist
• 1959

  Akkineni Nagarjuna, Indian Telugu actor
• 1959

  Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
• 1971

  Alex Griffin, bassist, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
• 1976

  Kevin Kaesviharn, American football player
• 1977

  Aaron Rowand, American baseball player
• 1981

  Geneviève Jeanson, French Canadian cyclist

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