What day of the week was August 22, 1973?

The day of the week August 22nd, 1973 fell on was a Wednesday.

The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands him to resign or else be unseated through force and new elections be called. The first demand is executed eighteen days later in a bloody coup d'etat the commencing 17 years of military rule.