What Day of the Week

August 29, 2022 is the 241^st day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 124 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Getsuyōbi.

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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).
• 1831

  Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
• 1842

  Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
• 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).
• 1903

  The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Sclass Borodinos, is launched.
• 1916

  The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
• 1918

  Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
• 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.

• 1876

  Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)
• 1901

  Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
• 1947

  James Hunt, English racing driver (d. 1993)
• 1954

  Michael P. Kube-McDowell, American science fiction novelist
• 1956

  Mark Morris, American choreographer
• 1959

  Stephen Wolfram, British physicist and mathematician
• 1967

  Anton Newcombe, American musician (The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
• 1971

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

  Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
• 1993

  Lucas Cruikshank, American Internet personality

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