What are the important events that happened on June 19? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

June 19: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 19 is the 170^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 195 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 6, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 486,192 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaheptacontagon’ day.

Gemini is the zodiac 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 243 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,563 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 19 Historical Events

• 1816 –
  Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson’s Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1870 –
  After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist.
• 1964 –
  The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
• 1982 –
  In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.
• 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.

Who were born on June 19?

• 1764 –
  José Gervasio Artigas, father of Uruguay (d. 1850)
• 1872 –
  Theodore Payne, English horticulturist (d. 1963)
• 1906 –
  Sir Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
• 1945 –
  Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician
• 1948 –
  Nick Drake, English musician (d. 1974)
• 1954 –
  Kathleen Turner, American actress
• 1974 –
  Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player
• 1975 –
  Anthony Parker, American basketball player
• 1980 –
  Adel Abdulaziz, Emirati football player
• 1981 –
  Moss Burmester, New Zealand swimmer

Who died on June 19?

• 1542 –
  Leo Jud, Swiss reformer (b. 1482)
• 1584 –
  François, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
• 1786 –
  Nathanael Greene, American military commander (b. 1742)
• 1820 –
  Joseph Banks, English naturalist and botanist (b. 1743)
• 1922 –
  Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (b. 1874)
• 1953 –
  Ethel Rosenberg, American convicted spy (b. 1915)
• 1953 –
  Julius Rosenberg, American convicted spy (b. 1918)
• 1996 –
  G. David Schine, American businessman (b. 1927)
• 2007 –
  El Fary, Spanish singer (b. 1937)
• 2008 –
  Bennie Swain, American basketball player (b. 1930)