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 26
June 26, 2024 is the 178th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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 26
- 1284 –the legendary Pied Piper leads 130 children out of Hamelin, Germany
- 1848 –End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
- 1907 –The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi.
- 1924 –American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
- 1934 –President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
- 1948 –William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
- 1959 –The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America’s Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
- 1960 –The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
- 1991 –Ten-Day War: the Yugoslav people’s army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
- 2006 –Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
Who were born on June 26?
- 1730 –Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)
- 1821 –Bartolomé Mitre, Argentine historian and politician (d. 1906)
- 1866 –George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. 1923)
- 1895 –George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1950)
- 1901 –Stuart Symington, American politician (d. 1988)
- 1955 –Gedde Watanabe, American actor
- 1963 –Mark McClellan, American government official
- 1963 –Richard Garfield, American game designer
- 1966 –Jürgen Reil, American drummer (Kreator)
- 1972 –Jai Taurima, Australian long jumper
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