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June 12: Day of the Week
June 12, 2024 is the 164th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 202 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Suiyōbi.
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Here’s the June calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
June 12 Historical Event(s)
1665
England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).
1776
The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
1899
New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
1939
Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures’ Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
1942
Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
1943
Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Berezhany, western Ukraine. 1,180 Jews are led to the city’s old Jewish graveyard and shot.
1967
The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
1978
David Berkowitz, the “Son of Sam” killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
1997
Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
1999
Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Who were born on June 12?
1577
Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1643)
1899
Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
1920
Peter Jones, English actor (d. 2000)
1934
John A. Alonzo, American cinematographer (d. 2001)
1949
Marc Tardif, Canadian ice hockey player
1951
Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 2007)
1952
Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Energy under George W. Bush
1975
Michael Muhney, American actor
1977
Wade Redden, Canadian ice hockey player
1982
Loïc Duval, French racing driver
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