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June 19th, 2026 by Gary Osberg

Today is Juneteenth, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day, a federal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated annually on June 19th to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. The holiday’s name, first used in the 1890s, is a portmanteau of June and nineteenth, referring to June 19, 1865, the day when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement […]