On June 19
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly June 19 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Jun 16 – Jun 22)
On 18 June 1815, near the village of Waterloo in present-day Belgium, Napoleon's bid to reclaim power during the Hundred Days came to a decisive end.
On 22 June 1941 Germany and its Axis allies launched Operation Barbarossa, invading the Soviet Union along a front of roughly 2,900 km with more than three million troops.
On 20 June 451 CE, a coalition of the Western Roman Empire and the Visigoths, jointly led by the Roman general Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I, confronted the Huns and their subject peoples under Attila on the…
On 16 June 2009 the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and China met in Yekaterinburg, Russia, for the first formal BRIC summit, transforming an investment-bank acronym coined in 2001 into a working diplomatic grouping.