What Day of the Week

June 17, 2020 was the 169^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 197 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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• 1631

  Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
• 1775

  American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
• 1789

  In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
• 1861

  Battle of Vienna, Virginia in the American Civil War.
• 1863

  Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
• 1930

  U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
• 1933

  Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
• 1948

  A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
• 1960

  The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 e6acre of land undervalued at 4 cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
• 1992

  A “joint understanding” agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).

• 1268

  Lord Borchard de Herle, English diplomat (d. 1305)
• 1714

  Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (d. 1762)
• 1818

  Charles Gounod, French composer (d. 1893)
• 1858

  Ebenezer Sumner Draper, 44th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1914)
• 1915

  David “Stringbean” Akeman, American actor and country music banjo player (d. 1973)
• 1918

  Ajahn Chah, Thai meditation master (d. 1992)
• 1936

  Ken Loach, British film director
• 1944

  Randy Johnson, American football player (d. 2009)
• 1971

  Mildred Fox, Irish politician
• 1987

  Kendrick Lamar, Rapper

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