What Day of the Week

June 8, 2019 was the 159^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 206 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

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

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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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• 68

  The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor.
• 1690

  Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
• 1861

  American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
• 1887

  Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’– his punched card calculator.
• 1912

  Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
• 1928

  Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beiping (“Northern peace”).
• 1942

  World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
• 1949

  Celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
• 1953

  The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
• 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.

• 1757

  Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 1824)
• 1916

  Francis Crick, English molecular biologist; Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
• 1916

  Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (d. 2007)
• 1925

  Eddie Gaedel, American baseball player (d. 1961)
• 1940

  Arthur Elgort, American fashion photographer
• 1940

  Nancy Sinatra, American singer
• 1949

  Emanuel Ax, Polish-born pianist
• 1960

  Mick Hucknall, English singer and songwriter (Simply Red)
• 1970

  Gabrielle Giffords, American politician
• 1981

  Matteo Meneghello, Italian racing driver

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