What Day of the Week

August 6, 2023 is the 218^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 147 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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

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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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• 1538

  Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
• 1777

  American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
• 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.
• 1901

  Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
• 1912

  The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
• 1930

  Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
• 1942

  Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
• 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.
• 1976

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.

• 1910

  Charles Crichton, British film director (d. 1999)
• 1952

  Vinnie Vincent, American musician (Kiss)
• 1955

  Rusty Magee, American composer (d. 2003)
• 1963

  Charles Ingram, British game show contestant
• 1964

  Moosie Drier, American actor and director
• 1974

  Bobby Petta, Dutch footballer
• 1977

  Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer
• 1977

  Luciano Zavagno, Argentine footballer
• 1980

  András Horváth, Hungarian footballer
• 2001

  Ty Simpkins, American actor

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