What Day of the Week

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

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is domingo.

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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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• 1745

  Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession.
• 1746

  War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
• 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.
• 1846

  The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected Pope beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy (not counting St. Peter).
• 1883

  The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children.
• 1904

  Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called “Bloomsday”.
• 1958

  Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
• 1961

  Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
• 1976

  Soweto uprising: a non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
• 2000

  Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Shebaa Farms.

• 1613

  John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658)
• 1713

  Meshech Weare, American Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786)
• 1924

  Faith Domergue, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1934

  William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist, Nobel laureate
• 1944

  Henri Richelet, French painter
• 1952

  George Papandreou, Greek politician
• 1963

  Jim Fullington, American professional wrestler
• 1975

  Anthony Carter, American basketball player
• 1981

  Ben Kweller, American singer and songwriter
• 1982

  Fraser Cartmell, British triathlete

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