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June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 195 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 325 ...
It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the ending of slavery in the United States. The holiday's name is a portmanteau of the words "June" and "nineteenth", as it was on June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War.
James II became King of England, King of Scots, and King of Ireland on 6 February 1685. He was the last Roman Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland, and Kingdom of Ireland.
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Events. 1846 – The first baseball game under recognizable modern rules is played in Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.; 1862 – U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying the Dred Scott Case.
This is a list of selected June 19 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit.
On June 19, 1939, 500 white rioters vandalized and burned down their home. Lee was twelve years old at the time. [ 11 ] Recalling it years later, she said, "The fact that it happened on the 19th day of June has spurred me to make people understand that Juneteenth is not just a festival."
Henry Louis Gehrig [13] was born June 19, 1903, at 1994 Second Avenue in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan; [14] he weighed almost 14 pounds (6.4 kg) at birth. He was the second of four children of German immigrants Anna Christina Foch (1881–1954) and Heinrich Wilhelm Gehrig (1867–1946).