8 Shahrivar · Khshathra 1400

Events on this day

• Krishna Janmashtami · Janmashtami

  Hindu · Cultural

  Krishna's birth at midnight, on the eighth day of the waning moon of Bhadrapada (Shravana in the southern reckoning), in August or September; this is the Vaishnava date, and Smarta households may keep it a day earlier.

• Summer bank holiday

  National · National holiday

  A bank holiday in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on the last Monday of August (in Scotland, the first Monday).

Other events

• Completion of the Guru Granth Sahib · Sampuranta Divas Guru Granth Sahib

Facts

• Day 163 of 1400
• 202 days left
• Zodiac sign: Virgo · Sonboleh