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Thursday 15 August 2030

What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.

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Observed On This Date

Dormition of the Theotokos
Feast / celebration
15 August, preceded by a fourteen-day fast
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Feast of the Assumption
Feast / celebration
15 August
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This Week In Space and Astronomy History

17 AugustPioneer Program, Launch Date 1958
17 AugustVenera 7, Launch Date 1970
20 AugustViking 1, Launch Date 1975
20 AugustViking Program, Launch Date 1975
20 AugustVoyager 2, Launch Date 1977
20 AugustVoyager Program, Launch Date 1977
21 AugustAtlas V, Launch Date 2002
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Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.