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 6
June 6, 2024 is the 158th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 208 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Thursday.
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 6
- 1683 –The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world’s first university museum.
- 1833 –U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride on a train.
- 1859 –Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
- 1889 –The Great Seattle fire destroys the entirety of downtown Seattle, Washington.
- 1971 –A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California claims 50 lives.
- 1974 –A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
- 1982 –1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their “Operation Peace for the Galilee”, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
- 1984 –Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all-time, is released.
- 1985 –The grave of “Wolfgang Gerhard” is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remains found are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz’s “Angel of Death”. Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
- 1993 –Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
Who were born on June 6?
- 1892 –Donald F. Duncan Sr., American entrepreneur (d. 1971)
- 1926 –Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998)
- 1929 –Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (d. 2005)
- 1932 –David Scott, American astronaut
- 1939 –Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer
- 1940 –Willie John McBride, Irish Rugby player
- 1944 –Tommie Smith, American track and field athlete
- 1953 –June Yamagishi, Japanese guitarist
- 1968 –François Avard, Canadian writer and scenarist
- 1978 –Carl Barât, English musician
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