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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• 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.
• 1941

  World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
• 1945

  The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
• 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
• 1977

  The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she is the first victim who is not a prostitute.
• 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.
• 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.

• 1681

  Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708)
• 1694

  Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)
• 1907

  Debs Garms, American baseball player (d. 1984)
• 1924

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

  Colin Wilson, British writer
• 1966

  Minaguchi Yuko, Japanese voice actress
• 1974

  Jason Kendall, American baseball player
• 1987

  Samir Nasri, French footballer
• 1991

  Diego Falcinelli, Italian footballer
• 1991

  Houssem Chemali, French footballer

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