June 26: Day Of The Week
June 26, 2013 is the 177th day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of this 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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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 26 Historical Events
- 363 –Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
- 1907 –The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi.
- 1909 –The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
- 1917 –The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.
- 1918 –World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
- 1941 –World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
- 1948 –Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
- 1948 –William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
- 1955 –The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
- 1978 –Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
Who were born on June 26?
- 1730 –Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)
- 1938 –Billy Davis, Jr., American singer (The 5th Dimension)
- 1951 –Pamela Bellwood, American actress
- 1953 –Robert Davi, American actor
- 1955 –Mick Jones, British guitarist (The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite)
- 1963 –Richard Garfield, American game designer
- 1970 –Irv Gotti, American record producer
- 1970 –Sean Hayes, American actor
- 1974 –Jeff Frankenstein, American musician (Newsboys)
- 1984 –Gabrielle Walcott, Trinidad and Tobagoian beauty pageant contestant
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