June 19

June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 195 days remaining.

Events

• 1269 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
• 1306 – Forces of Earl of Pembroke defeat Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven
• 1846 – First baseball game under recognizable modern rules in Hoboken, New Jersey.
• 1860 – Louise of Orange-Nassau marries King Charles XV of Sweden-Norway.
• 1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas are finally informed of their freedom. June 19th is unofficially celebrated as Juneteenth in the United States.
• 1870 – After all of the Southern States already being readitted formally to the Union, the Confederate States of America (a/k/a the CSA) seizes to exist.
• 1912 – establishment of the 8-hour work day in the United States.
• 1934 – establishment of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the United States. The FCC regulates radio and television broadcasts.
• 1949 – NASCAR sanctions the first "strictly stock" race, which will evolve into the modern Nextel Cup. Jim Roper wins the event.
• 1950 – The first commercial drag strip, the Santa Ana Drags, begins at Orange County Airport (now John Wayne Airport) at Santa Ana, in Southern California. Admission is 50 cents — or 75 cents if the ticket holder wanted to watch the mechanics work.
• 1954 – The last regular-service streetcar operated by Twin City Rapid Transit runs in Minneapolis
• 1954 – The animated Bugs Bunny short Devil May Hare debuts in theaters, introducing The Tasmanian Devil.
• 1970 – Signature of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
• 1976 – King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Silvia Sommerlath.
• 1978 – first appearance of the comic strip Garfield.
• 1999 – Torino is picked as the host city of the 2006 Winter Olympics.
• 2000 – Datapoint, the company that commissioned the Intel 8008 microprocessor, sells its European operations and changes its name to Dynacore.

Births

• 1301 – Prince Morikuni, 9th Kamakura shogun of Japan (d. 1333)
• 1566 – King James I of England and VI of Scotland (d. 1625)
• 1623 – Blaise Pascal, mathematician (d. 1662)
• 1764 – José Gervasio Artigas, father of Uruguay (d. 1850)
• 1792 – Gustav Schwab, author (d. 1850)
• 1834 – Charles Spurgeon, preacher and evangelist (d. 1892)
• 1838 – Friedrich von Hessing, engineer (d. 1918)
• 1861 – José Rizal, poet, Filipino national hero
• 1865 – Dame May Whitty, entertainer (d. 1948)
• 1882 – Guenter von Kluge, German field marshal, (d. 1944)
• 1896 – Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor (d. 1986)
• 1897 – Moe Howard, actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges (d. 1975)
• 1902 – Guy Lombardo, bandleader (d. 1977)
• 1903 – Lou Gehrig, baseball player (d. 1941)
• 1903 – Wally Hammond, cricketer (d. 1965)
• 1905 – Mildred Natwick, actress (d. 1994)
• 1914 – Alan Cranston, United States politician (d. 2000)
• 1924 – Anneliese Rothenberger, soprano
• 1928 – Nancy Marchand, actress (The Sopranos) (d. 2000)
• 1928  – Barry Took, British comedy writer and broadcaster
• 1930 – Gena Rowlands, actress
• 1932 – Pier Angeli, actress (d. 1972)
• 1933 – Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut
• 1938 – Wahoo McDaniel, American football player, wrestler (d. 2002)
• 1945 – Aung San Suu Kyi, politician and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (1991)
• 1947 – Salman Rushdie, author
• 1948 – Phylicia Rashad, actress
• 1948 – Nick Drake, folk guitarist
• 1950 – Michelangelo Delfino, activist
• 1951 – Ann Wilson, singer
• 1954 – Kathleen Turner, actress
• 1957 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician and minister of foreign affairs (d. 2003)
• 1960 – Luke Morley, British guitarist and songwriter
• 1962 – Paula Abdul, singer and one of three judges on American Idol
• 1967 – Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian cross country skier
• 1968 – Alastair Lynch, Ausralian Rules footballer
• 1970 – Quincy Watts, American athlete
• 1976 – Jean Neftin, Russian-born actor, writer
• 1977 – Peter Warrick, American football player
• 1978 – Dirk Nowitzki, German NBA star

Deaths

• 1692 – Rebecca Nurse, accused American witch (hanged)
• 1747 – Giovanni Bononcini Italian composer
• 1820 – Joseph Banks, naturalist and botanist
• 1902 – Frederick Augustus Albert, King of Saxony
• 1937 – J. M. Barrie, author
• 1939 – Grace Abbott, social worker, activist
• 1953 – Julius Rosenberg, convicted spy
• 1953 – Ethel Rosenberg, convicted spy
• 1966 – Ed Wynn, entertainer
• 1977 – Ali Shariati, sociologist
• 1977 – Lady Olave Baden-Powell, Chief Girl Guide
• 1989 – Wang Weilin (supposed)
• 1993 – William Golding, English novelist (b. 1911)
• 1996 – G. David Schine, investigator and businessman
• 2003 – Laura Sadler, British television actress

Holidays and observances

• Juneteenth – celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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