Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 19
June 19: Duanwu Festival (2007); Juneteenth in some parts of the United States.
- 1306 - Wars of Scottish Independence: The Earl of Pembroke's English army defeated Robert the Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
- 1867 - Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire (pictured) was executed by firing squad in Querétaro.
- 1953 - Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed as spies who passed U.S. nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union.
- 1961 - Kuwait declared independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1970 - The Patent Cooperation Treaty, an international law treaty, was signed, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions.