What Day of the Week

August 9, 2020 is the 222^nd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 144 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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

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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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• 1173

  Construction of the campanile of the cathedral of Pisa (now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa) begins; it will take two centuries to complete.
• 1854

  Henry David Thoreau published Walden.
• 1892

  Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
• 1907

  The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
• 1930

  Betty Boop made her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.
• 1936

  Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1974

  As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
• 1993

  The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.

• 1593

  Izaak Walton, English angler (d. 1683)
• 1867

  Evelina Haverfield British suffragette (d. 1920)
• 1875

  Albert Ketèlbey, English conductor, composer, and pianist (d. 1959)
• 1921

  Ernest Angley, American televangelist
• 1928

  Bob Cousy, American basketball player
• 1938

  Leonid Kuchma, Ukrainian politician
• 1957

  Melanie Griffith, American actress
• 1980

  Texas Battle, American actor
• 1985

  Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
• 1986

  Tyler “Telle” Smith, American musician (The Word Alive)

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