What day of the week was June 17, 1940?

The day of the week June 17th, 1940 fell on was a Monday.

George Akerlof the American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born on 17 June in 1940.

Arthur Harden the English biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865) died on this day in 1940.

World War II: is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire the France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain's worst maritime disaster. World War II: The British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya the Africa from Italian forces. The three Baltic states of Estonia the Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.