About June 19

June 19, 2023 is the 170th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 195 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

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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 236 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.
  • 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.
  • 1875 –
    The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
  • 1910 –
    The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
  • 1913 –
    Natives’ Land Act in South Africa implemented.
  • 1944 –
    World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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