About June 19
June 19, 2024 is the 171st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 195 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 224 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.
- 1586 –English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in North America.
- 1770 –Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
- 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.
- 1862 –The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
- 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.
- 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 –The body of God’s Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
- 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.
- 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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