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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• 1864

  American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor – Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
• 1889

  78 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
• 1898

  Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines’ independence from Spain.
• 1899

  New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
• 1964

  Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
• 1967

  Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet’s atmosphere and successfully return data).
• 1993

  An election takes place in Nigeria which and is later annulled by the military Government led by Ibrahim Babangida.
• 1994

  Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in wrongful death civil suit.
• 1996

  In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.
• 1997

  Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.

• 1897

  Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
• 1915

  Christopher Mayhew, British politician (d. 1997)
• 1915

  David Rockefeller, American banker
• 1920

  Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
• 1953

  David Thornton, American actor
• 1959

  Jenilee Harrison, American actress
• 1959

  Jervis Johnson, Games Designer for Games Workshop, Nottingham
• 1977

  Kenny Wayne Shepherd, American blues-rock guitarist
• 1980

  Larry Foote, American football player
• 1985

  Kendra Wilkinson, American television personality and glamour model

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