Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 19
June 19: Juneteenth in some parts of the United States
- 1846 - The first baseball game (using modern rules) was played in Hoboken, New Jersey.
- 1867 - Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire (pictured) was executed by firing squad in Querétaro.
- 1953 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed as Soviet spies.
- 1961 - Kuwait declared independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1978 - Garfield made his debut in a comic strip.