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 French then this day of the week in French is jeudi.

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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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• 217 BC

  Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
• 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.
• 1897

  British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
• 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.
• 1940

  France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany.
• 1941

  Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
• 1957

  The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).
• 1990

  Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
• 2002

  An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slowness of the victims receiving aid and supplies.

• 1767

  Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)
• 1887

  Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
• 1930

  Walter Bonatti, Italian mountaineer
• 1943

  Judith Barker, English actress
• 1946

  Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club)
• 1949

  Meryl Streep, American actress
• 1960

  Erin Brockovich, American environmentalist
• 1966

  Michael Park, English rally driver (d. 2005)
• 1970

  Michel Elefteriades, Greek-Lebanese politician and businessman
• 1984

  Dustin Johnson, American golfer

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