What Day of the Week

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

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

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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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• 1787

  Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
• 1819

  Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
• 1825

  Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
• 1914

  World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Helgoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
• 1914

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

  In New York City, the Warner Brothers’ Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
• 1930

  Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
• 1965

  The largest swimming pool in Europe was opened in Fürstenfeld, Austria.
• 1976

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
• 1996

  NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

• 1619

  Barbara Strozzi (baptized), Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
• 1923

  Jess Collins, American artist (d. 2004)
• 1932

  Howard Hodgkin, British painter
• 1949

  Dino Bravo, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1993)
• 1955

  Rusty Magee, American composer (d. 2003)
• 1965

  Yuki Kajiura, Japanese composer
• 1973

  Monica Goodling, American George W. Bush Administration appointee
• 1974

  Luis Vizcaino, Dominican baseball player
• 1978

  Peng Cheng-min, Taiwanese baseball player
• 1981

  Diána Póth, Hungarian figure skater

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