What Day of the Week

August 5, 2023 is the 217^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 148 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is sábado.

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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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• 1689

  1,500 Iroquois attack the village of Lachine in New France.
• 1716

  The Battle of Petrovaradin takes place.
• 1735

  Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.
• 1861

  The United States Army abolishes flogging.
• 1888

  Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
• 1901

  Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24 ft The record will stand for 20 years.
• 1916

  World War I: Battle of Romani – Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
• 1963

  The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.
• 1969

  Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers).
• 1995

  The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated in Croatia as Victory Day.

• 1749

  Thomas Lynch, Jr., American congressman (d. 1779)
• 1932

  Tera de Marez Oyens, Dutch composer (d. 1996)
• 1947

  Rick Derringer, American guitarist and vocalist
• 1968

  John Olerud, American baseball player
• 1968

  Marine Le Pen, French politician
• 1969

  Venkatesh Prasad, Indian cricketer
• 1976

  Jeff Friesen, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982

  Michele Pazienza, Italian footballer
• 1985

  Laurent Ciman, Belgian footballer
• 1988

  Federica Pellegrini, Italian swimmer

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