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How many days until Juneteenth National Independence Day?
There are 222 days until Juneteenth National Independence Day in 7 countries. It falls on Saturday, June 19, 2027.
A public holiday in 7 countries and territories in our data.
The story behind Juneteenth National Independence Day
Juneteenth marks June 19, 1865, when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced that all enslaved people there were free. Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation had been signed two and a half years earlier, but in Texas it had not been enforced.
Formerly enslaved Texans began celebrating the day the next year with prayer, food, music and readings of the proclamation, and the tradition spread as families moved across the country. After decades of campaigning, it became a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, the first new one since Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Where Juneteenth National Independence Day is a public holiday
next 12 months| Country | Next date | When |
|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇸 American Samoa | Sat, Jun 19, 2027 | in 222 days |
| 🇬🇺 Guam | Sat, Jun 19, 2027 | in 222 days |
| 🇲🇵 Northern Mariana Islands | Sat, Jun 19, 2027 | in 222 days |
| 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico | Sat, Jun 19, 2027 | in 222 days |
| 🇺🇲 U.S. Minor Outlying Islands | Sat, Jun 19, 2027 | in 222 days |
| 🇻🇮 U.S. Virgin Islands | Sat, Jun 19, 2027 | in 222 days |
| 🇺🇸 United States | Sat, Jun 19, 2027 | in 222 days |
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