What Day of the Week

June 8, 2022 is the 159^th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 206 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mercredi.

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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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• 1794

  Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution’s new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
• 1861

  American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
• 1906

  Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
• 1928

  Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beiping (“Northern peace”).
• 1953

  Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado hits Flint, Michigan, and kills 115.
• 1967

  Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
• 1972

  Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
• 1995

  Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
• 2007

  Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State’s worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
• 2008

  The Akihabara massacre takes place in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Katō drives a two-ton truck into a crowd before leaving the truck and attacking people with a knife.

• 1851

  Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (d. 1940)
• 1942

  Chuck Negron, American singer (Three Dog Night)
• 1954

  Marios Tokas, Greek-Cypriot composer (d. 2008)
• 1965

  Rob Pilatus, German-American singer and dancer (d. 1998)
• 1969

  David Sutcliffe, Canadian actor
• 1975

  Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
• 1976

  Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
• 1976

  Trish Goff, American model
• 1977

  Kanye West, American rapper
• 1984

  Andrea Casiraghi, Monagasque royalty

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