What Day of the Week

August 3, 2019 is the 215^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 150 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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

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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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• 1783

  Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.
• 1811

  First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
• 1903

  Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists only for 10 days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
• 1921

  Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
• 1958

  The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
• 1975

  A privately chartered Boeing 707 crashes into the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
• 1977

  The United States Senate begins its hearing on Project MKULTRA.
• 1981

  Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi.
• 2004

  The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
• 2005

  President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

• 1855

  Joe Hunter, English cricketer (d. 1891)
• 1872

  King Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957)
• 1925

  Marv Levy, American football coach
• 1928

  Henning Moritzen, Danish actor
• 1934

  William Calhoun, American professional wrestler (d. 1989)
• 1948

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin, French politician
• 1949

  B. B. Dickerson, American bass player & song writer
• 1949

  Philip Casnoff, American actor
• 1970

  Manmohan Waris, Indian Punjabi singer
• 1971

  Forbes Johnston, Scottish footballer (d. 2007)

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