Saturday June 22, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

June 22: Day of the Week

June 22, 2024 is the 174th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 192 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Doyōbi.

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Here’s the June calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Cancer 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 22 Historical Event(s)

168 BC
Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus ending the Third Macedonian War.
1825
The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
1848
Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris, France.
1911
George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1944
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
1945
World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
1957
The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).
1976
The Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
1984
Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
1990
Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.

Who were born on June 22?

1767
Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)
1903
Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (d. 1988)
1906
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American writer, wife of Charles Lindbergh (d. 2001)
1906
Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American film director (d. 2002)
1910
Konrad Zuse, German engineer (d. 1995)
1933
Jacques Martin, French TV host (d. 2007)
1941
Terttu Savola, Finnish politician
1950
Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and politician (d. 2009)
1981
Sione Lauaki, New Zealand rugby player
1984
Giorgos Apostolidis, Greek basketball player

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