What Day of the Week

June 16, 2019 is the 167^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 198 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is 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.

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• 363

  Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal Roman forces suffering several attacks from the Persians.
• 1745

  Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession.
• 1755

  French and Indian War: the French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
• 1795

  First Battle of Groix otherwise known as “Cornwallis’ Retreat”.
• 1815

  Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
• 1816

  Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.
• 1871

  The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
• 1911

  IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
• 1972

  Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
• 1997

  The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.

• 1514

  John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557)
• 1583

  Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1654)
• 1754

  Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir poet (d. 1800)
• 1894

  Norman Kerry, American actor (d. 1956)
• 1902

  George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (d. 1984)
• 1928

  Speedy O. Long, American politician (d. 2006)
• 1969

  Shami Chakrabarti, British activist
• 1971

  Chris Gomez, American baseball player
• 1980

  Phil Christophers, German-born English rugby player
• 1986

  Farhad Reza, Bangladeshi cricketer

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