📅 June 19 in the Time Tunnel
What happened on June 19? Travel back in time and find out — then test yourself with the quiz.
🎉 Special days
⏳ On this day in history
- 1846The first officially recorded organized baseball game was played in Hoboken, New Jersey
- 1865Union soldiers in Galveston, Texas, announced that enslaved people were free — celebrated as Juneteenth
- 1910Father’s Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, Washington
- 1978The comic strip "Garfield" started appearing in newspapers across the US
- 2018The US issued patent number 10,000,000 — ten million inventions!
🎂 Born on June 19
- 🧮 Blaise Pascal (1623) — mathematician and physicist
- 🏀 Dirk Nowitzki (1978) — basketball player
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June 19 quiz
In what year? ⚾ The first officially recorded organized baseball game was played in Hoboken, New Jersey
In what year? 🎉 Union soldiers in Galveston, Texas, announced that enslaved people were free — celebrated as Juneteenth
In what year? 👔 Father’s Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, Washington
Which famous person was born on June 19?