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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.
New Jersey State Pride Parade (typically first Sunday in June) Asbury Park, New Jersey; Hoboken Film Festival; Hungarian Festival - New Brunswick; Jersey Shore Wine Festival - FirstEnergy Park, Lakewood, June 2 and 3; McDonald's Gospelfest; Meadowlands State Fair Mid-June through Early July; New Jersey Film Festival; NJ Playwrights Festival
The 1835 Middlesex County tornado, touching down on June 19, 1835, was the deadliest tornado recorded in New Jersey's history. It destroyed all but two of twelve houses in Piscataway and killed five in New Brunswick, where it struck what is now part of downtown along a path through (or near) what is now Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital property, the site of Monument Square, and George ...
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On June 17, 2021, Juneteenth officially became a federal holiday in the United States. 1867 – Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro . 1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.