Not a day without holidays!

in holidays •  7 years ago 

June 19 - Tuesday

Day of Emancipation (Freedom Day) in the USA

240 BC The Greek scientist Eratosthenes Kirensky for the first time in the world calculated the radius of the Earth
1862 President Abraham Lincoln passed a law on the abolition of slavery throughout the United States

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