What Day of the Week

June 19, 2019 was the 170^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 195 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mercredi.

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Here’s the June calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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.

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• 1179

  The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
• 1586

  English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in North America.
• 1850

  Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
• 1865

  Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
• 1910

  The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
• 1978

  Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world’s most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
• 1982

  In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.
• 1985

  Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
• 1990

  The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
• 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.

• 1792

  Gustav Schwab, German author (d. 1850)
• 1815

  Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
• 1872

  Theodore Payne, English horticulturist (d. 1963)
• 1884

  Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French Dadaist artist and writer (d. 1974)
• 1919

  Pauline Kael, American movie critic (d. 2001)
• 1962

  Paula Abdul, American singer and choreographer
• 1964

  Bill Barretta, American actor and puppeteer
• 1982

  Joe Cheng, Taiwanese actor
• 1985

  Jason Capizzi, American football player
• 1985

  José Ernesto Sosa, Argentine footballer

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