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 20
June 20, 2025 is the 171st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 194 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Friday.
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.
Day In History: June 20
On leap years, this day usually marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere.
Historical Events: June 20
- 1605 –After only three months as tsar, 16-year-old Feodor II of Russia is assassinated.
- 1652 –Tarhoncu Ahmet Paşa is appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1787 –Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
- 1789 –Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
- 1837 –Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
- 1877 –Alexander Graham Bell installs the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
- 1887 –Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opens in Bombay.
- 1921 –Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
- 1956 –A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.
- 1972 –Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
Who were born on June 20?
- 1771 –Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish philanthropist (d. 1820)
- 1808 –Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (d. 1888)
- 1875 –Reginald Punnett, British geneticist (d. 1967)
- 1894 –Lloyd Hall, American chemist (d. 1971)
- 1931 –James Tolkan, American actor
- 1944 –Cheryl Holdridge, American actress (d. 2009)
- 1952 –Vikram Seth, Indian poet
- 1953 –Robert Crais, American mystery writer
- 1978 –Quinton Jackson, American mixed martial artist
- 1980 –Fabian Wegmann, German road racing cyclist
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