What Day of the Week

June 12, 2019 was the 163^rd day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 202 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

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

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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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• 1898

  Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines’ independence from Spain.
• 1939

  Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures’ Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
• 1940

  World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
• 1954

  Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest non-martyr saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
• 1964

  Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
• 1987

  Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
• 1987

  The Central African Republic’s former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
• 1993

  An election takes place in Nigeria which and is later annulled by the military Government led by Ibrahim Babangida.
• 1997

  Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
• 1999

  Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

• 1802

  Harriet Martineau, controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist (d. 1876)
• 1861

  William Attewell, English cricketer (d. 1927)
• 1892

  Djuna Barnes, American author (d. 1982)
• 1930

  Innes Ireland, Scottish racing driver (d. 1993)
• 1938

  Tom Oliver, Australian actor
• 1970

  Rick Hoffman, American actor
• 1979

  Wil Horneff, American actor
• 1982

  Ben Blackwell, American musician
• 1987

  Antonio Barragán, Spanish footballer
• 2001

  John Bigelow IV, golf prodigy from North Philadelphia

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