What Day of the Week

August 4, 2020 is the 217^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 149 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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

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Here’s the August calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Leo 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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• 367

  Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus by his father and associated to the throne aged eight.
• 1327

  First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.
• 1704

  War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
• 1924

  Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
• 1936

  Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
• 1964

  American civil rights movement: civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
• 1969

  Vietnam War: at the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
• 1975

  The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish chargé d’affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
• 1993

  A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King’s civil rights.
• 2007

  NASA’s Phoenix spaceship is launched.

• 1876

  Giovanni Giuriati, Italian politician (d. 1970)
• 1937

  David Bedford, English keyboardist and composer
• 1962

  Roger Clemens, American baseball player
• 1964

  Andrew Bartlett, Australian politician and activist
• 1974

  Keenan Milton, American professional skater (d. 2001)
• 1976

  Andrew McLeod, Australian rules footballer
• 1980

  Richard Dawson, English cricketer
• 1981

  Marques Houston, American singer (IMx) and actor
• 1985

  Crystal Bowersox, American singer
• 2001

  Seishiro Kato, Japanese actor

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