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 22
August 22, 2024 is the 235th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 131 days remaining until the end of 2024. 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 22
- 1559 –Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
- 1770 –James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.
- 1848 –The United States annexes New Mexico.
- 1941 –World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad.
- 1950 –Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
- 1961 –Ida Siekmann died attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
- 1962 –The NS Savannah, the world’s first nuclear-powered cargo ship, completes its maiden voyage.
- 1968 –Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
- 1996 –Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
- 2003 –Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
Who were born on August 22?
- 1845 –William Lewis Douglas, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1924)
- 1860 –Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German inventor (d. 1940)
- 1904 –Deng Xiaoping, Chinese statesman (d. 1997)
- 1912 –John Lee Hooker, American musician (d. 2001)
- 1936 –John Callaway, American journalist (d. 2009)
- 1958 –Colm Feore, American actor
- 1966 –GZA, American rapper
- 1972 –Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter
- 1986 –Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress
- 1999 –Dakota Goyo, Canadian Actor
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