Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: August 21
August 21, 2025 is the 233rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 132 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Leo is your zodiac sign. Peridot is your modern birthstone. Diamond is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: August 21
- 1192 –Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)
- 1770 –James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
- 1863 –Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate guerrillas Quantrill’s Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre.
- 1888 –The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
- 1942 –World War II: a Nazi flag is installed atop the Mount Elbrus.
- 1963 –Xa Loi Pagoda raids: the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalises Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
- 1968 –James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
- 1979 –Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.
- 1993 –NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
- 2001 –NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Who were born on August 21?
- 1535 –Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)
- 1665 –Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)
- 1858 –Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (d. 1889)
- 1891 –Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World’s oldest living man 2004-2007 (d. 2007)
- 1902 –Angel Karaliychev, Bulgarian writer (d. 1972)
- 1928 –Art Farmer, American trumpet player (d. 1999)
- 1930 –Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
- 1973 –Steve McKenna, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1976 –Nikos Vertis, Greek singer
- 1981 –Cameron Winklevoss, American Rower and Entrepeneur
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