What Day of the Week

June 23, 2022 was the 174^th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 191 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was 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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• 1180

  First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
• 1532

  Henry VIII and François I sign a secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
• 1565

  Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Siege of Malta.
• 1713

  The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
• 1794

  Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
• 1810

  John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
• 1941

  The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
• 1942

  World War II: the first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris.
• 1958

  The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
• 1973

  A fire at a house in Hull, England which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.

• 1683

  Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d. 1745)
• 1750

  Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (d. 1801)
• 1763

  Joséphine de Beauharnais, wife of Napoleon I Bonaparte (d. 1814)
• 1888

  Lee Moran, American actor (d. 1961)
• 1909

  David Lewis, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1981)
• 1937

  Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets) (d. 2004)
• 1965

  Natalia Germanou Greek lyricist, television hostess, radio producer, DJ and journalist
• 1976

  Joe Becker, American guitarist
• 1987

  Jacob Lusk, Singer, American Idol season 10 finalist
• 1989

  Marielle Jaffe, American model and actress

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