June 19
June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 195 days remaining.
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Events
- 1306 - Forces of Earl of Pembroke defeat Bruce's Scottish rebels at the Battle of Methven
- 1846 - First baseball game under recognizable modern rules in Hoboken, New Jersey.
- 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.
- 1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
- 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.
- 1978 - first appearance of the comic strip Garfield.
- 2000 - Datapoint, the company that commissioned the Intel 8008 microprocessor, sells its European operations and changes its name to Dynacore.
Births
- 1623 - Blaise Pascal, mathematician (+ 1662)
- 1764 - José Gervasio Artigas, father of Uruguay (+ 1850)
- 1792 - Gustav Schwab, author (+ 1850)
- 1838 - Friedrich von Hessing, engineer (+ 1918)
- 1865 - Dame May Whitty, entertainer (+ 1948)
- 1871 - Paul Valery,Franch poet, Sete (+1945
- 1882 - Guenter von Kluge, German field marshal, (+1944
- 1882 - William F. Halsey Jr, American admiral, (+1957
- 1896 - Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor (+ 1986)
- 1902 - Guy Lombardo, bandleader (+ 1977)
- 1903 - Lou Gehrig, baseball player (+ 1941)
- 1905 - Mildred Natwick, actress (+ 1994)
- 1914 - Alan Cranston, United States politician (+ 2000)
- 1924 - Anneliese Rothenberger, soprano
- 1930 - Gena Rowlands, actress
- 1932 - Pier Angeli, actress (+ 1972)
- 1933 - Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut
- 1945 - Aung San Suu Kyi, politician and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1991)
- 1947 - Salman Rushdie, author
- 1957 - Anna Lindh, Swedish politician and minister of foreign affairs (+2003)
- 1962 - Paula Abdul, singer
- 1978 - Dirk Nowitzki, German NBA star
Deaths
- 1902 - Frederick Augustus Albert, king of Saxony from 1873 to 1902
- 1937 - J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan
- 1953 - Julius Rosenberg, convicted spy
- 1953 - Ethel Rosenberg, convicted spy
- 1966 - Ed Wynn, entertainer
- 1977 - Ali Shariati, sociologist
- 1996 - G. David Schine, investigator and businessman
Holidays and observances
- Juneteenth - celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation
See Also:
June 18 - June 20 - May 19 - July 19 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
