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 Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is martes.

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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)
• 1800

  Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
• 1813

  Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1942

  World War II: the Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
• 1995

  NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.

• 1898

  Shirley Booth, American actress (d. 1992)
• 1915

  Robert Strassburg, American composer (d. 2003)
• 1918

  Billy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1923

  Nate Saint, American Evangelical Christian missionary (d. 1956)
• 1933

  Don Getty, Canadian politician
• 1935

  John Phillips, American singer-songwriter (The Mamas & the Papas) (d. 2001)
• 1949

  Ted Ammon, American financier (d. 2001)
• 1958

  Martin Jackson, British drummer (Swing out Sister)
• 1979

  Leon Lopez, British actor
• 2001

  Emily Bear, American pianist and composer

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