What Day of the Week

June 8, 2021 was the 159^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 206 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Kayōbi.

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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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• 1405

  Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV’s orders.
• 1690

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

  American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
• 1912

  Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
• 1942

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

  George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
• 1967

  Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
• 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.
• 2004

  The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.

• 1625

  Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian scientist and astronomer (d. 1712)
• 1745

  Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (d. 1818)
• 1872

  Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
• 1897

  John G. Bennett, British scientist and author (d. 1974)
• 1918

  John D. Roberts, American chemist
• 1927

  Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor
• 1970

  Troy Vincent, American footballer
• 1973

  Bryant Reeves, American basketball player
• 1973

  Lucija Šerbedžija, Croatian actress
• 1979

  Derek Trucks, American guitarist

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