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El Día E ('E-Day') or El Día del Español ('Spanish Language Day') is a festive commemoration promoted by the Instituto Cervantes since 2009, which takes place on the Saturday closest to the solstice of June, and whose objective is to spread the culture of Spanish, celebrate its importance in the world and foster the unity of its speakers.
1704 – John Kay, English engineer, invented the Flying shuttle (d. 1780) 1714 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer and cartographer (d. 1784) 1718 – George Howard, English field marshal and politician, Governor of Minorca (d. 1796) 1778 – Gregory Blaxland, English-Australian explorer (d. 1853)
President Joe Biden signed the bill (Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 117–17 (text)) on June 17, 2021, making Juneteenth the eleventh American federal holiday and the first to obtain legal observance as a federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was designated in 1983.
- Festivals, partying, parades, church services
- United States
- June 19
The Felix M. Warburg House is a mansion at 1109 Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was built from 1907 to 1908 for the German-American Jewish financier Felix M. Warburg, in the Châteauesque style, and designed by C. P. H. Gilbert. After Warburg's death in 1937, his widow sold it to a real estate developer.
Juneteenth. Juneteenth, también conocido como Día de la Liberación o Día de la Emancipación, es una festividad de los Estados Unidos que conmemora la emancipación de los afroestadounidenses esclavizados. 1 Se celebró por primera vez el 19 de junio de 1866, con motivo del primer aniversario de la abolición de la esclavitud en Texas; la ...
- Nacional
- Estados Unidos
Jun 17, 2021 · 17 de junio: Día Nacional de la Libertad Latinoamericana, a 200 años del paso a la inmortalidad de Martín Miguel de Güemes. Conmemoramos este día en memoria del fallecimiento, el 17 de junio de 1821, del General Martín Miguel de Güemes, figura clave de nuestra independencia.
1896 – Rajani Palme Dutt, English journalist and politician (d. 1974) 1896 – Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward VIII (d. 1986) 1897 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967) 1897 – Moe Howard, American comedian (d. 1975) 1901–present
