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

Events

1300-1899

• 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.

1900-1999

• 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.

2000-2099

• 2000 - Datapoint, the company that commissioned the Intel 8008 microprocessor, sells its European operations and changes its name to Dynacore.

Births

1300-1899

• 1301 - Prince Morikuni, 9th Kamakura shogun of Japan (d. 1333)
• 1566 - James I, King of England (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)

1900-1999

• 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
• 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
• 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

1600-1899

• 1692 - Rebecca Nurse, hanged during the Salem Witch Trials
• 1747 - Giovanni Bononcini composer
• 1820 - Joseph Banks, naturalist and botanist

1900-1999

• 1902 - Frederick Augustus Albert, king of Saxony from 1873 to 1902
• 1937 - J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan
• 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 GBE (nee Soames) Chief Girl Guide
• 1989 - Wang Weilin (supposed)
• 1993 - William Golding, novelist
• 1996 - G. David Schine, investigator and businessman

2000-2099

• 2003 - Laura Sadler, British television actress

Holidays and observances

• Juneteenth - celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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