What Day of the Week

August 8, 2020 is the 221^st day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 145 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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

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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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• 1605

  The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
• 1863

  American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).
• 1876

  Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
• 1908

  Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers’ first public flight.
• 1929

  The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
• 1946

  First flight of the Convair B-36, the world’s first mass-produce nuclear weapon delivery vehicle.
• 1960

  South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
• 1991

  The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
• 2000

  Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence and 5 years after being filmed by a dive team funded by novelist Clive Cussler.
• 2010

  2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.

• 1079

  Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
• 1881

  Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (d. 1954)
• 1910

  Sylvia Sidney, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1922

  Károly Reich, Hungarian illustrator (d. 1988)
• 1932

  Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian dictator
• 1933

  Serena Wilson, American belly dancer (d. 2007)
• 1940

  Dilip Sardesai, Indian cricketer (d. 2007)
• 1965

  Aaron Abeyta, American musician
• 1974

  Brian Harvey, English singer
• 1978

  Alan Maybury, Irish footballer

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