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Events on Monday 19 June 1865 1
1865Juneteenth announcement in GalvestonUnion troops proclaim freedom for enslaved TexansUnion General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced that all enslaved people in the state were free, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. The date later became commemorated annually as Juneteenth.