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, 29,171,520 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 ‘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.
• 1770 –
  Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
• 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.
• 1867 –
  Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
• 1910 –
  The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
• 1953 –
  Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
• 1961 –
  Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
• 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?

• 1816 –
  William Henry Webb, American industrialist (d. 1899)
• 1907 –
  Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1985)
• 1910 –
  Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
• 1928 –
  Barry Took, English comedy writer (d. 2002)
• 1942 –
  Merata Mita, New Zealander filmmaker (d. 2010)
• 1944 –
  Chico Buarque, Brazilian musician
• 1958 –
  Meredith Brooks, American singer/songwriter
• 1958 –
  Sergei Makarov, Russian hockey player
• 1966 –
  Michalis Romanidis, Greek basketball player
• 1975 –
  Hugh Dancy, English actor

Who died on June 19?

• 1650 –
  Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (b. 1593)
• 1747 –
  Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669)
• 1902 –
  Albert, King of Saxony (b. 1828)
• 1932 –
  Sol Plaatje, South African intellectual, writer and activist (b. 1876)
• 1937 –
  J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (b. 1860)
• 1949 –
  Syed Zafarul Hasan, Prominent Muslim philosopher (b. 1885)
• 1951 –
  Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet (b. 1884)
• 1987 –
  Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (b. 1981)
• 1995 –
  Peter Townsend, British military officer (b. 1914)
• 1997 –
  Olga Georges-Picot, French actress (b. 1944)