What Day of the Week

June 22, 2021 is the 173^rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 192 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is 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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• 1633

  The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
• 1807

  In the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
• 1813

  War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
• 1848

  Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris, France.
• 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.
• 1942

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

  Opening day of the Soviet Union’s Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
• 1944

  U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
• 1984

  Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
• 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.

• 1680

  Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754)
• 1898

  Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)
• 1907

  Mike Todd, American film producer (d. 1958)
• 1954

  Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (d. 1977)
• 1956

  Markus Schatte, German football coach
• 1957

  Kevin Bond, Former English footballer, current manager
• 1971

  Kurt Warner, American football player
• 1979

  Joey Cheek, American speed skater
• 1984

  Jerome Taylor, Jamaican cricketer
• 1989

  Jung Yong Hwa, Korean actor and singer

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