What Day of the Week

August 8, 2019 was the 220^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 145 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is jeudi.

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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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• 1585

  John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.
• 1786

  Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
• 1870

  The Republic of Ploieşti, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
• 1876

  Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
• 1929

  The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
• 1940

  The “Aufbau Ost” directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel.
• 1945

  World War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and begins the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation.
• 1946

  First flight of the Convair B-36, the world’s first mass-produce nuclear weapon delivery vehicle.
• 1988

  The “8888 Uprising” occurs in Burma.
• 1991

  The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.

• 1694

  Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (d. 1746)
• 1839

  Nelson Miles, American general (d. 1925)
• 1921

  John Herbert Chapman, British physicist (d. 1979)
• 1921

  Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist (d. 2001)
• 1933

  Serena Wilson, American belly dancer (d. 2007)
• 1951

  Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (d. 1994)
• 1955

  Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer
• 1956

  David Grant, English singer and vocal coach
• 1967

  Lee Unkrich, American director and film editor
• 1980

  Craig Breslow, American baseball player

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