What Day of the Week

June 20, 2019 is the 171^st day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 194 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Mokuyōbi.

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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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• 1787

  Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
• 1819

  The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail.
• 1877

  Alexander Graham Bell installs the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• 1895

  The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
• 1943

  The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
• 1959

  A rare June hurricane strikes Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
• 1963

  The so-called “red telephone” is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• 1979

  ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.
• 1982

  The Argentine base (Corbeta Uruguay) on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.
• 1991

  The German Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.

• 1796

  Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso, Italian cardinal (d. 1878)
• 1861

  Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (d. 1947)
• 1889

  John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer (d. 1951)
• 1916

  Johnny Morris, British children’s presenter (d. 1999)
• 1921

  Byron Farwell, American military historian (d. 1999)
• 1941

  Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut
• 1952

  Vikram Seth, Indian poet
• 1980

  Tony Lovato, American singer and guitarist (Mest)
• 1981

  Ardian Gashi, Albanian-Norwegian footballer
• 1991

  Rick ten Voorde, Dutch soccer player

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