What Day of the Week

June 22, 2023 is the 173^rd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 192 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.

Cancer 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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• 1839

  Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
• 1893

  The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet’s commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
• 1898

  Spanish–American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
• 1907

  The London Underground’s Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
• 1918

  The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
• 1922

  Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
• 1941

  The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
• 1942

  Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
• 1976

  The Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
• 2009

  Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.

• 1680

  Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754)
• 1902

  Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (d. 1950)
• 1916

  Johnny Jacobs, American television announcer (d. 1982)
• 1933

  Libor Pešek, Czech conductor
• 1940

  Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian filmmaker and poet
• 1943

  Eumir Deodato, Brazilian jazz musician and record producer
• 1968

  Darrell Armstrong, American basketball player
• 1982

  Ian Kinsler, American baseball player
• 1984

  Jerome Taylor, Jamaican cricketer
• 1985

  Rosa Kato, Italian-Japanese model and actress

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