What Day of the Week

August 7, 2023 is the 219^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 146 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.

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

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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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• 322 BC

  Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon.
• 1679

  The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
• 1782

  George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
• 1789

  The United States War Department is established.
• 1909

  Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York City to San Francisco.
• 1927

  The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
• 1947

  Thor Heyerdahl’s balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7000 km journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
• 1959

  Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• 1978

  U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been negligently disposed of.
• 1998

  The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.

• 1751

  Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (d. 1820)
• 1940

  Jean-Luc Dehaene, Belgian politician
• 1942

  Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio host
• 1942

  Tobin Bell, American actor
• 1951

  Joachim Thiel, German footballer
• 1955

  Wayne Knight, American actor
• 1968

  Lynn Strait, American singer (Snot) (d. 1998)
• 1975

  Vanessa Stacey, New Zealand actress
• 1978

  Alexandre Aja, French director
• 1982

  Vasileios Spanoulis, Greek basketball player

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