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 5
August 5, 2025 is the 217th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 148 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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 5
- 910 –The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Earl Aethelred of Mercia.
- 1735 –Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.
- 1882 –The Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
- 1901 –Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24 ft The record will stand for 20 years.
- 1914 –In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
- 1916 –World War I: Battle of Romani – Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
- 1944 –World War II: The Nazis begin a three-day massacre of anywhere between 40,000 and 100,000 civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland.
- 1949 –The Mann Gulch fire kills 13 firefighters in Montana.
- 1960 –Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
- 2010 –2010 Copiapó mining accident occurs, trapping 33 Chilean miners approximately 2,300 ft below the ground.
Who were born on August 5?
- 1301 –Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1330)
- 1397 –Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish composer and theorist (d. 1474)
- 1844 –Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter and sculptor (d. 1930)
- 1910 –Bruno Coquatrix, French songwriter and music impresario (d. 1979)
- 1946 –Ron Silliman, American poet
- 1964 –Adam Yauch, American rapper (Beastie Boys)
- 1968 –Marine Le Pen, French politician
- 1980 –Salvador Cabañas, Paraguayan footballer
- 1981 –Carl Crawford, American baseball player
- 1997 –Adam Irigoyen, American actor
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