What Day of the Week

June 23, 2019 is the 174^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 191 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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

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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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• 1760

  Seven Years’ War: Battle of Landeshut – Austria defeats Prussia.
• 1894

  The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
• 1917

  In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
• 1942

  World War II: Germany’s latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
• 1946

  The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
• 1958

  The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
• 1968

  74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.
• 1969

  Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
• 1972

  Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
• 1982

  Chinese American Vincent Chin is beaten to death in Highland Park, Michigan, by two auto workers who had mistaken him for Japanese and who were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies.

• 1456

  Margaret of Denmark, wife of James III of Scotland (d. 1486)
• 1750

  Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (d. 1801)
• 1905

  Jack Pickersgill, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
• 1909

  David Lewis, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1981)
• 1935

  Maurice Ferre, American politician
• 1941

  Richard M. Roberts, American attorney
• 1951

  Michèle Mouton, French racecar driver
• 1961

  LaSalle Thompson, American basketball player
• 1977

  Miguel Ángel Angulo, Spanish footballer
• 1984

  Duffy, Welsh singer and songwriter

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