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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 6, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,645,920 minutes 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 ‘hectaheptacontahenagon’ 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 224 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 4,198 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 19 Historical Events
- 1821 –Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
- 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.
- 1870 –After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist.
- 1875 –The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
- 1910 –The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
- 1913 –Natives’ Land Act in South Africa implemented.
- 1978 –Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world’s most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
- 1982 –The body of God’s Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
- 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.
Who were born on June 19?
- 1874 –Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer (d. 1941)
- 1912 –Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (d. 2005)
- 1915 –Pat Buttram, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1957 –Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003)
- 1964 –Bill Barretta, American actor and puppeteer
- 1968 –Alastair Lynch, Australian rules footballer
- 1975 –Hugh Dancy, English actor
- 1975 –Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress
- 1978 –Zoe Saldana, American actress
- 1982 –Trevor Hamilton, Northern Irish murderer
Who died on June 19?
- 1921 –Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (b. 1888)
- 1952 –Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (b. 1888)
- 1953 –Ethel Rosenberg, American convicted spy (b. 1915)
- 1968 –James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (b. 1898)
- 1975 –Sam Giancana, American gangster (b. 1908)
- 1979 –Paul Popenoe, American founder of marriage counseling and scholar of eugenics (b. 1888)
- 1984 –Lee Krasner, American painter (b. 1908)
- 1987 –Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (b. 1981)
- 1988 –Fernand Seguin, Canadian biologist (b. 1922)
- 2007 –Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (b. 1932)
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