June 29: Day of the Week
June 29, 2023 is the 180th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 185 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is jueves.
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Here’s the June calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
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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June 29 Historical Event(s)
- 1149Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
- 1194Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
- 1786Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
- 1889Hyde 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.
- 1895Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
- 1916The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
- 1927First test of Wallace Turnbull’s controllable pitch propeller.
- 1972The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
- 1974Isabel 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.
- 2009Yemenia Flight 626 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing 152 people and leaving schoolgirl Bahia Bakari as the sole survivor.
Who were born on June 29?
- 1398King John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
- 1818Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1878)
- 1866Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
- 1879Zsigmond Móricz, Hungarian writer (d. 1942)
- 1886James Van Der Zee, African American Harlem Renaissance photographer (d. 1983)
- 1911Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)
- 1933John Bradshaw, American theologian
- 1967Melora Hardin, American actress and singer
- 1967Seamus McGarvey, Irish cinematographer
- 1970Emily Skinner, American actress and singer
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