What Day of the Week

June 26, 2020 is the 178^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

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

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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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• 1927

  The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
• 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.
• 1960

  Madagascar gains its independence from France.
• 1974

  The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley’s chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
• 1978

  Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
• 1991

  Ten-Day War: the Yugoslav people’s army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
• 1995

  Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
• 2003

  The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
• 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.

• 1689

  Edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769)
• 1839

  Sam Watkins, American Confederate soldier and author (d. 1901)
• 1924

  Kostas Axelos, Greek philosopher (d. 2010)
• 1931

  Colin Wilson, British writer
• 1934

  Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist (d. 1965)
• 1936

  Jean-Claude Turcotte, Cardinal Archbishop of Montreal
• 1954

  Steve Barton, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1969

  Mike Myers, American baseball player
• 1976

  Paweł Małaszyński, Polish actor
• 1977

  Mark Jindrak, American professional wrestler

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