What Day of the Week

June 2, 2023 was the 153^rd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 212 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

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

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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.

• 1615

  First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
• 1692

  Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
• 1835

  P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
• 1955

  The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
• 1967

  Luis Monge is executed in Colorado’s gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
• 1979

  Pope John Paul II first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
• 1990

  The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.
• 1997

  In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
• 2003

  Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
• 2004

  Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!

• 1865

  George Lohmann, English cricketer (d. 1901)
• 1891

  Thurman Arnold, American attorney and jurist (d. 1969)
• 1927

  W. Watts Biggers, American novelist and animator
• 1935

  Carol Shields, American-born novelist (d. 2003)
• 1950

  Joanna Gleason, Canadian actress and singer
• 1953

  Craig Stadler, American golfer
• 1955

  Dana Carvey, American actor
• 1961

  Dez Cadena, American musician (Black Flag)
• 1972

  Wentworth Miller, American actor
• 1978

  Justin Long, American actor

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