What Day of the Week

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

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

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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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• 1814

  Indian Wars: the Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.
• 1902

  Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1925

  A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India
• 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.
• 1942

  Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1999

  Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.

• 1776

  Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (d. 1856)
• 1909

  Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (d. 1944)
• 1931

  Mário Zagallo, Brazilian football coach and player
• 1938

  Rod Laver, Australian tennis player
• 1942

  Tommie Agee, American baseball player (d. 2001)
• 1955

  Peter Schmuck, American sportswriter
• 1964

  Brett Hull, Canadian-born American ice hockey player
• 1973

  Kevin McKidd, Scottish actor
• 1974

  Kirill Reznik, American politician
• 1977

  Jason Frasor, American baseball player

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