What day of the week was August 23, 1921?

The day of the week August 23rd, 1921 fell on was a Tuesday.

Kenneth Arrow the American economist, Nobel Prize laureate was born on 23 August in 1921. As was Sam Cook the English cricketer and umpire (d. 1996) .

British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew the only 4 survive.