What are the important events that happened on June 24, 1978? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

June 24, 1978: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 24, 1978 is the 175^th day of the year 1978 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 190 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 11, 1978 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 74,304 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaheptacontapentagon’ day.

If a person born on this day saved a Dime every day starting at age 6, then by now that person has accumulated $1,455.80. (Assuming this person is still alive today.)

Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

Horse is the mythical animal and Earth is the element for this person if we consider the very old art of Chinese astrology.

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Who were born on June 24, 1978?

• 1978 –
  Ariel Pink, American recording artist
• 1978 –
  Emppu Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist (Nightwish)
• 1978 –
  Juan Román Riquelme, Argentine footballer
• 1978 –
  Luis García, Spanish footballer
• 1978 –
  Pantelis Kafes, Greek footballer
• 1978 –
  Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer

Who died on June 24, 1978?

• 1978 –
  Robert Charroux, French writer (b. 1909)

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