Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: June 17
June 17, 2025 is the 168th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 197 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Gemini is your zodiac sign. Pearl is your modern birthstone. Moonstone is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: June 17
- 1673 –French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.
- 1789 –In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
- 1861 –Battle of Vienna, Virginia in the American Civil War.
- 1930 –U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
- 1933 –Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
- 1953 –East Germany Workers Uprising: in East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
- 1960 –The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 e6acre of land undervalued at 4 cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
- 1971 –President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs.
- 1981 –Hyatt Regency walkway collapse: In the Hyatt Regency Hotel the 2nd and 4th floor walkways collapse crushing 144 people to death, this was the worst structural failure in the United States.
- 1991 –Apartheid: the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
Who were born on June 17?
- 1714 –Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (d. 1762)
- 1810 –Ferdinand Freiligrath, German writer (d. 1876)
- 1861 –Pete Browning, American baseball player (d. 1905)
- 1916 –Terry Gilkyson, American singer, lyricist and composer (d. 1999)
- 1920 –Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (d. 1981)
- 1920 –Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress
- 1945 –Eddy Merckx, Belgian cyclist
- 1957 –Phil Chevron, Irish guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Pogues, The Radiators From Space)
- 1971 –Mildred Fox, Irish politician
- 1988 –Stephanie Rice, Australian swimmer
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