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June 26: Day of the Week
June 26, 2024 is the 178th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Suiyōbi.
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Here’s the June calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
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.
June 26 Historical Event(s)
221
Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
1924
American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
1934
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
1936
Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
1940
World War II: under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
1955
The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
1973
At Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
1975
Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
2006
Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
2008
The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual right, and that the District of Columbia handgun ban is unconstitutional.
Who were born on June 26?
1730
Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)
1824
William Thomson, Irish-born physicist (d. 1907)
1866
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. 1923)
1906
Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer (d. 1974)
1957
Philippe Couillard, Quebec neurosurgeon and politician
1977
Florian Kehrmann, German handball player
1979
Ryo Fukuda, Japanese racing driver
1980
Chris Shelton, American baseball player
1983
Vinícius, Brazilian footballer
1987
Carlos Iaconelli, Brazilian racing driver
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