Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 19
On June 19:
- 1846 - The first baseball game game (using modern rules) was played in Hoboken, New Jersey.
- 1865 - The Emancipation Proclamation reached Galveston, Texas, beginning the tradition of Juneteenth celebrations.
- 1953 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed as Soviet spies.
- 1978 - The comic strip Garfield first appeared.