What Day of the Week

August 9, 2021 was the 221^st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 144 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

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

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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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• 48 BC

  Caesar’s civil war: Battle of Pharsalus – Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
• 681

  Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube after defeating the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta.
• 1854

  Henry David Thoreau published Walden.
• 1907

  The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
• 1942

  World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
• 1944

  Continuation war: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.
• 1945

  World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 39,000 people are killed outright.
• 1965

  A fire at a Titan missile base near Searcy, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
• 1969

  Members of a cult led by Charles Manson brutally murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men’s hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.
• 1971

  The Troubles: The British security forces in Northern Ireland launch Operation Demetrius. Hundreds of people are arrested and interned, thousands are displaced, and twenty are killed in the violence that followed.

• 1901

  Charles Farrell, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1925

  David A. Huffman, American computer scientist (d. 1999)
• 1928

  Dolores Wilson, American opera singer (d. 2010)
• 1939

  Romano Prodi, Italian politician and statesman
• 1942

  David Steinberg, Canadian comedian
• 1962

  Kevin Mack, American football player
• 1983

  Shane O'Brien, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985

  JaMarcus Russell, American football player
• 1987

  Marco Carmona, Mexican artist
• 1991

  Candela Vetrano, Argentine actress

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