What Day of the Week

August 30, 2022 is the 242^nd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 123 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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

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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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• 1363

  Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
• 1800

  Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
• 1896

  Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
• 1914

  World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg
• 1918

  Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
• 1922

  Battle of Dumlupinar: the final battle in the Greek-Turkish War (“Turkish War of Independence”).
• 1942

  World War II: the Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
• 1945

  The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
• 1981

  President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People’s Mujahedin of Iran.
• 1984

  STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.

• 1797

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
• 1818

  Alexander H. Rice, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
• 1937

  Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer and founder of McLaren racing team (d. 1970)
• 1946

  Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
• 1949

  Ted Ammon, American financier (d. 2001)
• 1963

  Michael Chiklis, American actor
• 1973

  Lisa Ling, American journalist
• 1976

  Mike Koplove, American baseball player
• 1981

  Germán Legarreta, American actor
• 1989

  Ronald Huth, Paraguayan footballer

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