What Day of the Week

August 30, 2021 was the 242^nd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 123 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is lunes.

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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.
• 1590

  Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
• 1835

  Melbourne, Australia is founded.
• 1909

  Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
• 1914

  World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg
• 1942

  World War II: the Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
• 1956

  The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
• 1963

  The Hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
• 1967

  Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1974

  A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.

• 1797

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
• 1901

  John Gunther, American writer (d. 1970)
• 1917

  Denis Healey, British politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1926

  Daryl Gates, American police chief (d. 2010)
• 1927

  Bill Daily, American actor
• 1928

  Lloyd Casner, American racecar driver and owner (d. 1965)
• 1946

  Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
• 1949

  Don Boudria, Canadian politician
• 1978

  Sinead Kerr, Irish figure skater
• 1985

  Éva Risztov, Hungarian swimmer

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