About June 19
June 19, 2021 is the 170th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 195 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Gemini is the sun 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.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 227 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 19
- 1586 –English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in North America.
- 1770 –Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
- 1821 –Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
- 1846 –The first officially recorded, organized baseball match is played under Alexander Cartwright’s rules on Hoboken, New Jersey’s Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired.
- 1862 –The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
- 1867 –Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
- 1870 –After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist.
- 1875 –The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
- 1910 –The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
- 1934 –The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
- 1953 –Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
- 1961 –Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1966 –Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai.
- 1982 –In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.
- 1982 –The body of God’s Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
- 1985 –Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
- 1987 –Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
- 1991 –The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
- 2009 –Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
- 2009 –War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
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