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Sunday 1 June 2025

What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.

The Day BeforeTodayThe Day AfterAll Of June 2025

Already Underway

Eastertide
Feast / celebration
The fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost, kept as a single festal season
Day 43 of 50
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The Week Ahead

Thursday 5 JuneDay of Arafah
Friday 6 JuneEid al-Adha
Sunday 8 JunePentecost

This Week In Space and Astronomy History

1 JuneVenera Program, End Date 1983
2 JuneMars Express, Launch Date 2003
2 JuneVenera 15, Launch Date 1983
3 JuneMAVEN, End Date 2026
4 JuneAriane 5, First Flight Date 1996
4 JuneFalcon 9, Launch Date 2010
5 JuneEuropa, First Flight Date 1964
5 JuneGSLV Mk III (LVM3), First Flight Date 2017
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Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.