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

• 1179 –
  The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
• 1269 –
  King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
• 1306 –
  The Earl of Pembroke’s army defeats Bruce’s Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1870 –
  After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist.
• 1978 –
  Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world’s most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
• 1985 –
  Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.

Who were born on June 19?

• 1851 –
  Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (d. 1890)
• 1897 –
  Moe Howard, American actor (d. 1975)
• 1903 –
  Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
• 1910 –
  Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
• 1919 –
  Pauline Kael, American movie critic (d. 2001)
• 1952 –
  Robert Ainsworth, British politician
• 1970 –
  Brian Welch, American guitarist (Korn)
• 1974 –
  Bumper Robinson, American actor and voice artist
• 1980 –
  Milka Loff Fernandes, German actress
• 1980 –
  Nuno Santos, Portuguese footballer

Who died on June 19?

• 1027 –
  Romuald, Italian saint (b. 951)
• 1205 –
  Roman the Great, Rus’ prince (b. 1151)
• 1282 –
  Eleanor de Montfort, wife of Llywelyn the Last (b. 1252)
• 1542 –
  Leo Jud, Swiss reformer (b. 1482)
• 1820 –
  Joseph Banks, English naturalist and botanist (b. 1743)
• 1939 –
  Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
• 1966 –
  Ed Wynn, American actor (b. 1886)
• 1984 –
  Lee Krasner, American painter (b. 1908)
• 1997 –
  Bobby Helms, American singer (b. 1933)
• 2008 –
  Bennie Swain, American basketball player (b. 1930)