What Day of the Week

August 9, 2019 was the 221^st day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 144 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

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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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• 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.
• 1483

  Opening of the Sistine Chapel in Rome with the celebration of a Mass.
• 1810

  Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
• 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

  Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the first and only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
• 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.

• 1776

  Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (d. 1856)
• 1901

  Charles Farrell, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1920

  Francis Lynch, American state legislator (d. 1993)
• 1939

  Bulle Ogier, French actress
• 1942

  David Steinberg, Canadian comedian
• 1961

  Brad Gilbert, American tennis player
• 1974

  Matt Morris, American baseball player
• 1976

  Mark Priestley, Australian actor (d. 2008)
• 1976

  Rhona Mitra, English actress
• 1991

  Candela Vetrano, Argentine actress

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