What Day of the Week

August 4, 2021 is the 216^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 149 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Suiyōbi.

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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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• 1790

  A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
• 1796

  French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.
• 1873

  Indian Wars: whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
• 1902

  The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
• 1946

  An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
• 1984

  The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
• 1987

  The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues “fairly”.
• 1991

  The Greek cruise ship Ship MTS sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
• 2002

  Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
• 2010

  California’s Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state’s voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger.

• 1904

  Joe Tate, English footballer (d. 1973)
• 1942

  Don S. Davis, American actor and painter (d. 2008)
• 1943

  Vicente Alberto Álvarez Areces, Spanish politician
• 1945

  Alan Mulally, American businessman
• 1952

  Gábor Demszky, Hungarian politician
• 1958

  Kym Karath, American actress
• 1968

  Lee Mack, British comedian
• 1968

  Marcus Schenkenberg, Swedish model
• 1970

  Steven Jack, South African cricketer
• 1985

  Crystal Bowersox, American singer

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