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, 2024 is the 218th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 148 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Monday.
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
- 642 –Battle of Maserfield – Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Northumbria.
- 1071 –Byzantine–Norman wars: Italo-Normans begin a nearly-three-year siege of Bari.
- 1858 –Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It will operate for less than a month.
- 1864 –American Civil War: the Battle of Mobile Bay begins – at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
- 1884 –The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe’s Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.
- 1962 –Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
- 1963 –The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.
- 1979 –In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake an attempted military uprising.
Who were born on August 5?
- 1301 –Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1330)
- 1540 –Joseph Justus Scaliger, French philologist and historian (d. 1609)
- 1922 –L. Tom Perry, American religious figure
- 1930 –Michal Kováč, Slovakian politician
- 1935 –John Saxon, American actor
- 1968 –Tokimitsu Ishizawa, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1969 –Vasbert Drakes, Barbadian cricketer
- 1975 –Haim Goldenberg, Israeli/Canadian mentalist (GoldMind)
- 1993 –Suzuka Ohgo, Japanese actress
- 1997 –Adam Irigoyen, American actor
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