Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 19
June 19: Father's Day in various countries (2005)
- 1846 - The first baseball game (using modern rules) was played in Hoboken, New Jersey.
- 1865 - The Emancipation Proclamation reached Galveston, Texas, beginning the tradition of Juneteenth celebrations.
- 1867 - Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire was executed by firing squad in Querétaro.
- 1953 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed as Soviet spies.
- 1961 - Kuwait declared independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1978 - Garfield made his debut in a comic strip.