What Day of the Week

June 26, 2021 was the 177^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 188 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

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

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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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• 363

  Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
• 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.
• 1718

  Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great’s son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
• 1907

  The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi.
• 1952

  The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewise labour parties.
• 1960

  Madagascar gains its independence from France.
• 1960

  The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
• 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.
• 1991

  Ten-Day War: the Yugoslav people’s army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
• 1996

  Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin

• 1881

  Ya'akov Cohen, Israeli poet (d. 1960)
• 1899

  Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
• 1902

  Hugues Cuénod, Swiss Tenor (d. 2010)
• 1963

  Richard Garfield, American game designer
• 1979

  Brandi Burkhardt, American actress and beauty pageant contestant
• 1979

  Wálter Herrmann, Argentinian basketball player
• 1980

  Sinik, French singer and rapper
• 1984

  Aubrey Plaza, American comedian, writer and actress
• 1984

  Deron Williams, American basketball player
• 1984

  Elijah Dukes, American baseball player

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