Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on June 19 throughout history.
On June 19, 2020, 65-year-old Canadian animal rights activist and protester Regan Russell was run over and killed by the driver of a livestock transport truck after a demonstratio…
Animal rights advocate Regan Russell is run over and killed by a transport truck outside of a pig slaughterhouse in Burl
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time, in exc…
The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued
Antwon Rose II was a 17-year-old African-American who was fatally shot in East Pittsburgh on June 19, 2018, by East Pittsburgh Police Department officer Michael Rosfeld after bein…
Antwon Rose II is fatally shot in East Pittsburgh by East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld after being involved
WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents. It is funded by donations and media partnerships. It has published classified documents and other m…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requests asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after
The Shishou Incident was a popular protest and riot in the city of Shishou, Hubei Province, in central China between June 19–21, 2009. The protests were the result of dubious circ…
Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circums
Since 2004, an ongoing insurgency has being fought in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by Islamist militant groups such as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Jundall…
War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist
The al-Khilani mosque bombing occurred on 19 June 2007 when a truck bomb exploded in front of the Shia Al-Khilani Mosque in Baghdad, Iraq. At least 78 people were killed and anoth…
The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured
Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin SCA, commonly referred to as Michelin, is a French multinational tyre manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhône-A…
Following a series of Michelin tire failures during the United States Grand Prix weekend at Indianapolis, and without an
The Southern Group of Forces (YUGV) was a Soviet Armed Forces formation formed twice following the Second World War, most notably around the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 19…
The last Soviet army units in Hungary are withdrawn
The Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 is an International Labour Organization Convention, also known as ILO Convention 169, or C169. It is the major binding internati…
The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified
The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, was a communist political party in the Russian SFSR. The Communist Party of the Russian SFSR was founded i…
The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow
Pope John Paul II was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI in …
Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs
ETA, an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, was an armed Basque nationalist and separatist organization active in Spain and France between 1959 and 2018. It was founded in 1959, du…
Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hiperc
Aeroflot Flight N-528 was a regular commercial flight from Odesa to Berdyansk that crashed at 11:22 local time while attempting to land in poor weather conditions.
Aeroflot Flight N-528 crashes at Berdiansk Airport in present-day Ukraine, killing eight people
The Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers was a political party in Central America.
Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa are
The People's Armed Police Force, abbreviated PAP, is a Chinese gendarmerie organization primarily responsible for internal security, riot control, counter-terrorism, disaster resp…
The People's Armed Police is de facto founded; It is officially established 10 months later on April 5, 1983
Garfield is an American comic strip and media franchise created by Jim Davis. Originally published locally as Jon in 1976, then in nationwide syndication from 1978, it chronicles …
Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who served as the chief of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force in the 1960s, before leading the nation as the pr…
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. It…
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate
Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia. With a coastline of approximately 500 km (311 mi), it is situated at the head of the Persian Gulf in the northea…
Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom