What Day of the Week

June 8, 2023 was the 159^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 206 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.

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

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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.

• 1776

  American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
• 1783

  The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
• 1887

  Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’– his punched card calculator.
• 1941

  World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
• 1949

  George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
• 1966

  An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2 destroying both planes during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and United States Air Force test pilot Carl Cross are both killed.
• 1982

  Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by Argentine air attack on two landing ships : RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
• 1987

  New Zealand’s Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987
• 1992

  The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 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.

• 1724

  John Smeaton, English civil engineer (d. 1794)
• 1854

  Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (d. 1921)
• 1860

  Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (d. 1940)
• 1903

  Ralph Yarborough, U.S. Senator from Texas (d. 1996)
• 1933

  Joan Rivers, American comedian and author
• 1933

  Rommie Loudd, former American football player, coach, and executive (d. 1998)
• 1941

  Fuzzy Haskins, American musician (P Funk)
• 1969

  J.P. Manoux, American actor
• 1975

  Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
• 1981

  Jess Weixler, American actress

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