What Day of the Week

August 6, 2019 is the 218^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 147 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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

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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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• 1284

  The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
• 1538

  Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
• 1661

  The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
• 1787

  Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
• 1862

  American Civil War: the Confederate ironclad Ship CSS is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• 1914

  World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
• 1926

  Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
• 1945

  World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when the atomic bomb “Little Boy” is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
• 1965

  US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
• 2008

  A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

• 1895

  Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban pianist and composer (d. 1963)
• 1924

  Samuel Bowers, American murder and Ku Klux Klan leader (d. 2006)
• 1926

  Elisabeth Beresford, British author and creator of The Wombles (d. 2010)
• 1926

  János Rózsás, Hungarian writer
• 1929

  Mike Elliott (saxophonist), Jamaican born ska, pop, jazz musician
• 1929

  Roch La Salle, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
• 1963

  Charles Ingram, British game show contestant
• 1965

  Juliane Köhler, German actress
• 1967

  Archbishop Alexy Bondarenko, Ukrainian-born American theologian
• 1971

  Piyal Wijetunge, Sri Lankan cricketer

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