Tuesday June 17, 2025
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

is the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are until the end of the year. The day of the week is .

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

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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.

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by the Numbers

  • days since
  • year, month, and days ago
  • month since then
  • is in the th week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is not a leap year

Historical Event(s)

1579
Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison
The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
A day after South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem announced the Joint Communique to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
The United States Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord’s Prayer in public schools.
With the death of the last individual of the species, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Who were born on ?

King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718)
Sir William Crookes, English physicist and chemist (d. 1919)
Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1918)
Terry Gilkyson, American singer, lyricist and composer (d. 1999)
Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress
George Akerlof, American economist, Nobel laureate
Jon Leibowitz, American government official
Christy Canyon, American pornographic actress
Christian Claudio, Puerto Rican business consultant
Louis Leterrier, French film director

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