WikiPop's Pick · June 18, 2025
Juneteenth
US holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States
On June 18, 2025, the most-viewed article on Wikipedia was Anne Burrell, with 1,045,992 views. It was already WikiPop's pick on June 17, and we don't repeat an article within 30 days. So WikiPop's pick is #2, Juneteenth, with 334,327 views.
Juneteenth, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day, is a federal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated annually on June 19 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 of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War.
