What Day of the Week

June 16, 2021 was the 167^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 198 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

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

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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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• 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.
• 1836

  The formation of the London Working Men’s Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
• 1883

  The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children.
• 1903

  The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
• 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”.
• 1933

  The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed.
• 1961

  Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
• 1963

  Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.

• 1713

  Meshech Weare, American Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786)
• 1840

  Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
• 1896

  Murray Leinster, American science-fiction and alternate history writer (d. 1976)
• 1917

  Irving Penn, American photographer (d. 2009)
• 1947

  Tom Wyner, British-born American voice actor and writer
• 1949

  Paulo César, Brazilian footballer
• 1961

  Steve Larmer, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970

  Clifton Collins Jr., American actor
• 1980

  Daré Nibombé, Togolese footballer
• 1986

  Robert Rothbart, Bosnian/Israeli/Serbian basketball player

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