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June 26: Day of the Week
June 26, 2024 was the 178th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 188 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was 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.
1284
the legendary Pied Piper leads 130 children out of Hamelin, Germany
1409
Western Schism: the Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
1857
The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
1907
The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi.
1909
The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
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.
1941
World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
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.
1978
Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
Who were born on June 26?
1798
Wolfgang Menzel, German writer (d. 1873)
1821
Bartolomé Mitre, Argentine historian and politician (d. 1906)
1924
Kostas Axelos, Greek philosopher (d. 2010)
1931
Colin Wilson, British writer
1963
Mark McClellan, American government official
1970
Matt Letscher, American actor
1980
Chris Shelton, American baseball player
1983
Vinícius, Brazilian footballer
1984
Aubrey Plaza, American comedian, writer and actress
1984
Elijah Dukes, American baseball player
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