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
- 1269 –King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
- 1586 –English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in North America.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1970 –The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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