About June 19
June 19, 2025 is the 170th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 195 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 243 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 19
- 1269 –King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
- 1306 –The Earl of Pembroke’s army defeats Bruce’s Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
- 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).
- 1850 –Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
- 1865 –Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
- 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.
- 1953 –Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
- 1964 –The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
- 1978 –Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world’s most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1990 –The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
- 1991 –The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
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