What Day of the Week

June 17, 2021 is the 168^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 197 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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

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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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• 1462

  Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
• 1497

  Battle of Deptford Bridge – forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
• 1773

  Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
• 1930

  U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
• 1940

  World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
• 1940

  World War II: the British Army’s 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.
• 1958

  The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.
• 1958

  The wooden roller coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada opens. It is still open today.
• 1960

  The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 e6acre of land undervalued at 4 cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
• 1991

  Apartheid: the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.

• 1810

  Ferdinand Freiligrath, German writer (d. 1876)
• 1818

  Sophie of Württemberg, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1877)
• 1880

  Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (d. 1964)
• 1882

  Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1918)
• 1930

  Brian Statham, English cricketer (d. 2000)
• 1936

  Ken Loach, British film director
• 1947

  Paul Young, English singer and percussionist (Sad Café, Mike + The Mechanics) (d. 2000)
• 1958

  Jon Leibowitz, American government official
• 1965

  Dan Jansen, American speed skater
• 1970

  Will Forte, American writer, actor and comedian

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