About June 19

June 19, 2024 is the 171st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 195 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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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 224 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On June 19

  • 1179 –
    The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
  • 1306 –
    The Earl of Pembroke’s army defeats Bruce’s Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
  • 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.
  • 1816 –
    Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson’s Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
  • 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.
  • 1913 –
    Natives’ Land Act in South Africa implemented.
  • 1934 –
    The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
  • 1944 –
    World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
  • 1961 –
    Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
  • 1964 –
    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
  • 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.
  • 1985 –
    Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
  • 1991 –
    The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.

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