What Day of the Week

June 16, 2018 was the 167^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 198 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

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

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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.
• 1779

  Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
• 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).
• 1903

  The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
• 1922

  General election in the Irish Free State: the pro-Treaty Sinn Féin win a large majority.
• 1924

  The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
• 1940

  World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).
• 1958

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

  Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.

• 1332

  Isabella de Coucy, English princess (d. 1382)
• 1915

  John Tukey, American statistician (d. 2000)
• 1938

  Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer
• 1958

  Jóhannes Helgason, Icelandic guitarist (Þeyr)
• 1958

  Ulrike Tauber, East German swimmer
• 1977

  Craig Fitzgibbon, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1977

  Kerry Wood, American baseball player
• 1978

  Daniel Brühl, German actor
• 1981

  Miguel Villalta, Peruvian footballer
• 1984

  Rick Nash, Canadian ice hockey player

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