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
- 1179 –The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1850 –Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1970 –The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
- 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.
- 1990 –The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
- 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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