June 19: Day of the Independent Hungary; Juneteenth in some parts of the United States
- 1846 – The first officially recorded baseball game using modern rules developed by Alexander Cartwright was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.
- 1867 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico (pictured) was executed by firing squad in Querétaro.
- 1970 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty, an international law treaty, was signed, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions.
- 1987 – Basque separatist group ETA detonated a car bomb at the Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona, killing 21 people and injuring 45 others.
- 2009 – Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers broke out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
Guru Hargobind (b. 1595) · Sarah Rosetta Wakeman (d. 1864) · Doris Sands Johnson (b. 1921)
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