What Day of the Week

August 30, 2023 is the 242^nd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 123 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mercredi.

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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.
• 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.
• 1835

  Melbourne, Australia is founded.
• 1862

  American Civil War – Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General Horatio Wright.
• 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.
• 1897

  The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
• 1945

  The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
• 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.

• 1748

  Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
• 1813

  Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (d. 1862)
• 1896

  Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (d. 1983)
• 1923

  Vic Seixas, American tennis player
• 1935

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

  Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian (d. 1994)
• 1954

  David Paymer, American actor
• 1985

  Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
• 1985

  Steven Smith, Scottish footballer
• 1986

  Lelia Masaga, New Zealand rugby player

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