What Day of the Week

August 3, 2020 was the 216^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 150 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was 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.

Leo 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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• 1678

  Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
• 1811

  First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
• 1852

  Harvard wins the first Boat Race between Yale and Harvard. The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event
• 1860

  The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
• 1900

  The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company is founded.
• 1913

  A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland Hop Riot, starts in Wheatland, California.
• 1972

  The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• 1975

  A privately chartered Boeing 707 crashes into the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
• 2001

  The Real IRA detonates a car bomb in Ealing, London, United Kingdom injuring seven people.
• 2010

  Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.

• 1832

  Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer (d. 1914)
• 1887

  Rupert Brooke, English poet (d. 1915)
• 1907

  Ernesto Geisel, President of Brazil (d. 1996)
• 1937

  Steven Berkoff, English actor
• 1940

  James Tyler, American musicologist and author (d. 2010)
• 1954

  Gary Peters, English footballer
• 1966

  Brent Butt, Canadian actor
• 1972

  Sandis Ozoliņš, Latvian ice hockey player
• 1982

  Jesse Lumsden, Canadian bobsledder and football player
• 1992

  Karlie Kloss, American model

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