What Day of the Week

June 1, 2020 was the 153^rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 213 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

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

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

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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• 987

  Hugh Capet is elected King of France.
• 1215

  Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
• 1495

  Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
• 1815

  Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
• 1861

  American Civil War, Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1861), first land battle of American Civil War after Battle of Fort Sumter, first Confederate combat casualty.
• 1910

  Robert Falcon Scott’s South Pole expedition leaves England.
• 1960

  New Zealand’s first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
• 1962

  The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among other things, that the British public did not want commercial radio broadcasting.
• 1974

  Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
• 1999

  American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.

• 1076

  Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132)
• 1878

  John Masefield, English novelist and poet (d. 1967)
• 1915

  John Randolph, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1922

  Joan Copeland, American actress
• 1929

  Nargis, Indian actress (d. 1981)
• 1936

  Joe Doyle, Irish politician
• 1940

  Kip Thorne, American physicist
• 1945

  Linda Scott, American singer
• 1966

  Greg Schiano, American football coach
• 1969

  Teri Polo, American actress

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