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Monday, August 31, 2026
Monday, August 31, 2026 falls on a Monday. It is day 243 of the year, ISO week 36, in Q3.
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Monday, August 31
August 31, 2026 is day 243 of 365, ISO week 36, in Q3. The moon is Waning Gibbous and the zodiac sign is Virgo.
Day of year243
ISO week36
QuarterQ3
Days left122
Sun and Moon Cycles
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous
- Lunar age
- 18.2 days
- Illumination
- 87%
- Season
- Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, winter in the Southern Hemisphere
Zodiac and Holidays
- Zodiac
- Virgo
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- No major fixed observance in the built-in calendar
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- /date/2026-08-31
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August 31
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Baloch-Pakhtun Unity Day (Balochs and Pashtuns, International observance)
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Aidan of Lindisfarne
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Amatus of Nusco
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Aristides of Athens
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Cuthburh
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Joseph of Arimathea
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Nicodemus
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Paulinus of Trier
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Local briefMonday, August 31, 2026 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2019: A sightseeing helicopter crashed in the mountains of Skoddevarre in Alta, Norway, killing all six people on board.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to August 31.
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A sightseeing helicopter crashed in the mountains of Skoddevarre in Alta, Norway, killing all six people on board.
The last episode of The Bill, the longest-running police drama in British television history, was broadcast.
Typhoon Rusa made landfall in Goheung as the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, killing at least 236 people.
Diana, Princess of Wales (pictured), her partner Dodi Fayed, and their driver were killed in a car crash in Paris.
On the final day of the Isle of Wight Festival 1969, attended by approximately 150,000 people over three days, Bob Dylan appeared in his first gig in three years.
A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu (pictured), younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm, failed to kill Norodom Sihanouk, Prime Minister of Cambodia.
The Matagorda hurricane, the most intense and costliest tropical cyclone of the 1942 Atlantic hurricane season, dissipated after causing $26.5 million in damages and eight deaths.
World War II: A detachment of Chetniks captured the town of Loznica in German-occupied Serbia.
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Sol Bamba, Ivorian-French footballer (born 1985)
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Mahal, Filipino comedian and actress (born 1974)
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Francesco Morini, Italian footballer (born 1944)
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Michael Constantine, Greek-American actor (born 1927)
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Geronimo, British alpaca (born 2013)
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Pranab Mukherjee, Former President of India (born 1935)
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