Significance of 19th June:

World Sickle Cell Awareness Day is held annually since 2008 to raise awareness about Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) and the struggle that the sufferers or a patient family face. 


Since 19th June 1996, the P N Panicker Vigyan Vikas Kendra and P N Panicker Foundation have been celebrating National Reading Day. This day is celebrated to encourage reading and support literacy. In Kerala, this day is known as Vaayanadinam, which translates to “National Reading Day.”


World Sauntering Day is observed annually to make people remember to slow down and enjoy life as possible instead of rushing always. This day also reminds us to take it easy, take time to smell roses, take time to see nature that is so beautiful, look at the sky and enjoy life.


1846- The first officially recorded organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules in Hoboken, New Jersey.

1961- Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.

1988- Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.

2018- The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued.



Famous people who had responded birthdays on this day:

1922- Aage Niels Bohr was a Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Roy Mottelson and James Rainwater.

1947- Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British-American novelist, and essayist.

1954- Yashodhara Raje Scindia is an Indian politician and the former minister of Sports and Youth Welfare.

1970- Rahul Gandhi is an Indian politician and  a member of the Indian National Congress. He is currently serving as the 12th leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha and as the member of the Lok Sabha for Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh, since June 2024.



Famous people who have death anniversaries on this day:

1907-  Umesh Chandra Dutta  was one of the pioneer Brahmos who firmly established the Brahmo Samaj at Harinavi in the face of severe opposition from local people.

1919- Akshay Kumar Baral was a Bengali poet and writer.

1981 - Subhash Mukherjee, Indian scientist and physician who created India's first, and the world's second, child using in-vitro fertilisation named Kanupriya Agarwal (Durga).

2008- Barun Sengupta, the founder-editor of Bartaman newspaper, was a Bengali journalist and popular political critic.