What Day of the Week

June 11, 2023 was the 162^nd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 203 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is dimanche.

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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.

• 1184 BC

  Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
• 1345

  The megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by political prisoners.
• 1805

  A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
• 1907

  George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
• 1917

  King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicates under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.
• 1936

  The International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.
• 1938

  Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. 500,000 to 900,000 civilians are killed.
• 1944

  USS Missouri the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
• 1956

  Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.
• 2008

  Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes an historic official apology to Canada’s First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.

• 1713

  Edward Capell, English critic (d. 1781)
• 1895

  Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet politician (d. 1975)
• 1912

  James Algar, American film director (d. 1998)
• 1915

  Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (d. 1999)
• 1919

  Helen Tobias-Duesberg, Estonian-born American composer
• 1926

  Carlisle Floyd, American composer
• 1936

  Jud Strunk, American singer, songwriter and comedian (d. 1981)
• 1969

  Olaf Kapagiannidis, German footballer
• 1982

  Joey Graham, American basketball player
• 1987

  Didrik Solli-Tangen, Norwegian singer and Eurovision contestant

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