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 22
June 22, 2024 is the 174th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 192 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Cancer 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 22
- 168 BC –Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus ending the Third Macedonian War.
- 1633 –The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
- 1774 –The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
- 1783 –A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
- 1907 –The London Underground’s Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
- 1942 –Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
- 1957 –The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).
- 1978 –Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered by American astronomer James W. Christy.
- 1984 –Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
- 2002 –An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slowness of the victims receiving aid and supplies.
Who were born on June 22?
- 1879 –Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist (d. 1962)
- 1906 –Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American film director (d. 2002)
- 1909 –Maurice Adler, American film producer (d. 1960)
- 1910 –Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
- 1921 –Joseph Papp, American director and producer (d. 1991)
- 1933 –Dianne Feinstein, American politician
- 1940 –Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian filmmaker and poet
- 1940 –Esther Rantzen, British TV presenter
- 1953 –Bruce McAvaney, Australian sports broadcaster
- 1971 –Kurt Warner, American football player
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