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
- 1462 –Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
- 1565 –Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
- 1861 –Battle of Vienna, Virginia in the American Civil War.
- 1910 –Aurel Vlaicu pilots a A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
- 1930 –U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
- 1948 –A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
- 1960 –The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 e6acre of land undervalued at 4 cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
- 1991 –Apartheid: the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
- 1992 –A “joint understanding” agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
- 1994 –Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
Who were born on June 17?
- 1682 –King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718)
- 1693 –Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (d. 1775)
- 1858 –Ebenezer Sumner Draper, 44th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1914)
- 1880 –Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (d. 1964)
- 1909 –Ralph E. Winters, Canadian film editor (d. 2004)
- 1952 –Mike Milbury, American ice hockey player, coach and executive
- 1961 –Kōichi Yamadera, Japanese seiyū, actor and tarento
- 1962 –Michael Monroe, Finnish singer (Hanoi Rocks)
- 1965 –Dara O'Kearney, Irish ultra runner and professional poker player
- 1983 –Lee Ryan, British singer (Blue)
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