Juneteenth
Marks June 19, 1865 — the day Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, and informed enslaved people there of the Emancipation Proclamation. Made a US federal holiday in 2021.
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Full history →Notable · 2012
Facing allegations of sexual assault in Sweden, Julian Assange (pictured), the founder of WikiLeaks, requested asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.- 2020Animal rights advocate Regan Russell is run over and killed by a transport truck outside of a pig slaughterhouse in Burlington, Ontario.
- 2018The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued.
- 2018Antwon Rose II is fatally shot in East Pittsburgh by East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld after being involved in a near-fatal drive-by shooting.