Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 19
This is a list of selected June 19 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Trinity Sunday (Western Christianity, 2011); | refimprove |
| 1306 – Wars of Scottish Independence: The Earl of Pembroke's English army defeated Robert the Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven. | no footnotes |
| 1850 – Louise of the Netherlands married Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway. | needs more footnotes |
| 1867 – Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire was executed by firing squad in Querétaro. | refimprove, unreferenced section, empty section |
| 1944 – World War II: The navies of the United States and Imperial Japan engaged each other off the Mariana Islands in the Philippine Sea. | needs more footnotes |
| 2006 – The prime ministers of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland participated in a ceremonial "laying of the first stone" of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Spitsbergen, Norway. | date not cited |
Eligible
- 1939 – Former American baseball player Lou Gehrig was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, now commonly known in the United States as "Lou Gehrig's Disease".
- 1953 – Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed as spies who passed U.S. nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union.
- 1978 – Garfield, created by American cartoonist Jim Davis, made its debut, eventually becoming one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips.
- 1991 – The last Red Army soldiers left Hungary, ending the Soviet occupation.
- 2005 – Only six race cars competed in the United States Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana, after all the Michelin-shod entrants were withdrawn due to safety concerns.
- 2009 – The War in Afghanistan: British forces began Operation Panther's Claw, in which more than 350 troops made an aerial assault on Taliban positions in Southern Afghanistan.
June 19: Day of the Independent Hungary; Juneteenth in some parts of the United States
- 1846 – The first officially recorded baseball game using modern rules developed by Alexander Cartwright (pictured) was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, US.
- 1961 – Kuwait declared independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1970 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty, an international law treaty, was signed, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions.
- 1987 – Basque separatist group ETA detonated a car bomb at the Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona, killing 21 and injuring 45.
- 2009 – Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers broke out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.