What Day of the Week

August 7, 2019 was the 219^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 146 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

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

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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.
• 461

  Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer .
• 626

  The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.
• 1714

  The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy.
• 1879

  The opening of the Poor Man’s Palace in Manchester.
• 1930

  The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
• 1940

  World War II: Alsace Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.
• 1942

  World War II: the Battle of Guadalcanal begins – United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
• 1955

  Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.
• 1974

  Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1368 ft in the air.

• 1877

  Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (d. 1949)
• 1907

  Albert Kotin, American abstract painter (d. 1980)
• 1942

  B.J. Thomas, American singer
• 1946

  Ed Seykota, American commodities and futures trader
• 1949

  Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese political leader
• 1964

  John Birmingham, Australian author
• 1975

  Hans Matheson, Scottish Actor
• 1977

  Samantha Ronson, British DJ
• 1980

  Anomie Belle, American musician
• 1983

  Tina O'Brien, British actress

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