What Day of the Week

June 29, 2020 was the 181^st day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 185 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is lunes.

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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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• 1850

  Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
• 1864

  Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada’s worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
• 1880

  France annexes Tahiti.
• 1888

  George Edward Gouraud records Handel’s Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
• 1889

  Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
• 1916

  The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
• 1950

  The United States defeats England during the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
• 1956

  The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
• 1974

  Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Peron, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
• 2006

  Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush’s plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.

• 1398

  King John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
• 1596

  Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
• 1911

  Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)
• 1920

  Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker
• 1924

  Ezra Laderman, American composer
• 1933

  Bob Shaw, baseball player
• 1969

  Pavlos Dermitzakis, Greek footballer and football manager
• 1973

  George Hincapie, American cyclist
• 1979

  Barış Akarsu, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007)
• 1990

  Yann M'Vila, French footballer

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