What Day of the Week

June 4, 2020 was the 156^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 210 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was 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.

Gemini 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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• 1411

  King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
• 1615

  Siege of Osaka: Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
• 1878

  Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
• 1939

  Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
• 1940

  World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends – British forces complete evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers his famous “We shall fight on the beaches” speech.
• 1944

  World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505 – the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
• 1957

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous Power of Nonviolence speech at the University of California, Berkeley.
• 1961

  In the Vienna summit, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
• 1988

  Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
• 1989

  Solidarity’s victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.

• 1738

  King George III of the United Kingdom (d. 1820)
• 1924

  Dennis Weaver, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1942

  Louis Reichardt, American mountaineer
• 1952

  Bronisław Komorowski, Marshal of the Polish Sejm and acting President of Poland
• 1968

  Al B. Sure, American R&B singer
• 1971

  Noah Wyle, American actor
• 1972

  Derian Hatcher, American ice hockey player
• 1972

  Nikka Costa, American singer
• 1984

  Kento Handa, Japanese actor
• 1985

  Alicja Janosz, Polish singer

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