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Thursday, August 15, 2024 falls on a Thursday. It is day 228 of the year, ISO week 33, in Q3.
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Thursday, August 15
August 15, 2024 is day 228 of 366, ISO week 33, in Q3. The moon is Waxing Gibbous and the zodiac sign is Leo.
Day of year228
ISO week33
QuarterQ3
Days left138
Sun and Moon Cycles
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous
- Lunar age
- 10.4 days
- Illumination
- 80%
- Season
- Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, winter in the Southern Hemisphere
Zodiac and Holidays
- Zodiac
- Leo
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- No major fixed observance in the built-in calendar
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- /date/2024-08-15
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August 15
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Feast day of the Assumption of Mary, one of the Catholic holy days of obligation (a public holiday in Austria, Belgium,...
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San La Muerte (Paraguayan Folk Catholicism)
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Santa Muerte (Mexican Folk Catholicism)
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August 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending more than 28 years of fighting.
The Troubles: A car bomb attack carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army killed 29 people and injured approximately 220 others in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
Big Ear, a radio telescope at Ohio State University received a strong, apparently extraterrestrial radio signal that became known as the Wow! signal.
President Fulbert Youlou was overthrown in the Republic of Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
The Republic of Korea was established with Syngman Rhee (pictured) as its first president.
Jawaharlal Nehru (pictured) took office as the first prime minister of India, a post he held for 16 years.
World War II: Allied forces began Operation Dragoon, their invasion of southern France.
World War II: The tanker SS Ohio reached Malta as part of an operation to deliver much-needed supplies during the siege of Malta.
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Gerd Müller, German footballer (born 1945)
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Robert Trump, American real-estate developer, business executive (born 1948)
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Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian-American architect (born 1925)
2015
Julian Bond, American academic, leader of the civil rights movement, and politician (born 1940)
2015
Hamid Gul, Pakistani general (born 1936)
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