What Day of the Week

June 26, 2018 was the 177^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 188 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.

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

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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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• 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.
• 1848

  End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
• 1924

  American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
• 1927

  The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
• 1942

  The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
• 1948

  William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
• 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.
• 1995

  Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
• 1996

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

• 1730

  Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)
• 1881

  Ya'akov Cohen, Israeli poet (d. 1960)
• 1898

  Chesty Puller, American military officer (d. 1971)
• 1902

  Hugues Cuénod, Swiss Tenor (d. 2010)
• 1915

  Paul Castellano, American organized crime figure (d. 1985)
• 1934

  Dave Grusin, American jazz pianist
• 1937

  Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1961

  Terri Nunn, American singer (Berlin)
• 1974

  Matt Striker, American professional wrestler
• 1980

  Hamílton, naturalized Togolese footballer

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