What Day of the Week

June 22, 2021 was the 173^rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 192 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.

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

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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.
• 1593

  Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Turks.
• 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.
• 1898

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

  The London Underground’s Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
• 1911

  George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1918

  The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
• 1941

  The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
• 1942

  Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
• 1944

  U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.

• 1845

  Tom Dula, American folk character (d. 1868)
• 1879

  Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist (d. 1962)
• 1906

  Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American film director (d. 2002)
• 1913

  Sándor Weöres, Hungarian poet (d. 1989)
• 1921

  Joseph Papp, American director and producer (d. 1991)
• 1959

  Nicola Sirkis, French singer and lyricist (Indochine)
• 1964

  Amy Brenneman, American actress
• 1978

  Jai Rodriguez, American TV personality
• 1987

  Lee Min Ho, Korean actor
• 1988

  Portia Doubleday, American actress

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