What Day of the Week

August 31, 2020 is the 244^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 122 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is 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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• 1218

  Al-Kamil becomes Sultan of Egypt, Syria and northern Mesopotamia on the death of his father Al-Adil.
• 1422

  King Henry V of England dies of dysentery while in France. His son, Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.
• 1795

  War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.
• 1876

  Ottoman Sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
• 1920

  Polish-Bolshevik War: a decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
• 1936

  Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
• 1940

  Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
• 1957

  The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1992

  Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo.
• 1994

  The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.

• 1741

  Jean Paul Egide Martini, French composer (d. 1816)
• 1928

  James Coburn, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1934

  Nikos Xanthopoulos, Greek actor
• 1940

  Jack Thompson, Australian actor
• 1949

  H. David Politzer, American physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1949

  Richard Gere, American actor
• 1954

  Julie Brown, American actress, singer-songwriter and screenwriter
• 1955

  Olek Krupa, Polish actor
• 1958

  Serge Blanco, French rugby union footballer
• 1983

  Larry Fitzgerald, American football player

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