June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 195 days remaining until the end of the year.
June 19: Day of the Independent Hungary; Juneteenth in some parts of the United States
More anniversaries:
1269 – Louis IX of France imposed a fine of ten livres of silver on Jews found in public without a yellow badge.
1816 – The Hudson's Bay Company and theNorth West Company, rival fur-trading companies, engaged ina violent confrontation in present-day Winnipeg,Manitoba, Canada.
1944 – World War II: The navies of the United States and Imperial Japan engaged each other off the Mariana Islandsin the Philippine Sea.
1987 – Basque separatist group ETA detonated a car bombat the Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona, killing 21 people and injuring 45 others.
2010 – The royal wedding between Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling (both pictured) took place inStockholm Cathedral.