What Day of the Week

August 30, 2020 is the 243^rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 123 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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

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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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• 1590

  Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
• 1813

  Creek War – Fort Mims massacre: Creek “Red Sticks” kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
• 1862

  American Civil War – Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General Horatio Wright.
• 1873

  Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
• 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.
• 1909

  Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
• 1922

  Battle of Dumlupinar: the final battle in the Greek-Turkish War (“Turkish War of Independence”).
• 1945

  Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
• 1956

  The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
• 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.

• 1768

  Joseph Dennie, American writer (d. 1812)
• 1919

  Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director (d. 2010)
• 1923

  Nate Saint, American Evangelical Christian missionary (d. 1956)
• 1943

  Tal Brody, American-born Israeli basketball player
• 1953

  Ron George, American politician
• 1982

  Andy Roddick, American tennis player
• 1983

  Gustavo Eberto, Argentine footballer (d. 2007)
• 1983

  Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor
• 1984

  Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1991

  Liam Cooper, Scottish footballer

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