June 19

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2017 (Monday)

2016 (Sunday)

2015 (Friday)

June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 195 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 1179 – The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
• 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 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
• 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.
• 1770 – Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
• 1807 – Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
• 1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• 1821 – Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
• 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball match is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired.
• 1850 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
• 1862 – The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying the Dred Scott Case.
• 1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
• 1867 – Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
• 1870 – After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist.
• 1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
• 1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
• 1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
• 1943 – Race riots occur in Beaumont, Texas.
• 1944 – World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
• 1953 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
• 1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
• 1966 – Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai.
• 1970 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
• 1974 – A female resident of Bellevue, Washington, becomes the first person to be saved by the Heimlich maneuver.
• 1978 – Garfield appears in his first comic strip.
• 1982 – In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.
• 1982 – The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
• 1987 – Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
• 1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
• 2006 – Prime ministers of several northern European nations participate in a ceremonial "laying of the first stone" at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Spitsbergen, Norway.

Births

• 1301 – Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (d. 1333)
• 1566 – King James I of England and VI of Scotland (d. 1625)
• 1595 – Guru Hargobind, Indian religious figure (d. 1644)
• 1606 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
• 1623 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1662)
• 1633 – Philipp van Limborch, Dutch Protestant theologian (d. 1712)
• 1717 – Johann Stamitz, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1757)
• 1764 – José Gervasio Artigas, father of Uruguay (d. 1850)
• 1771 – Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
• 1792 – Gustav Schwab, German author (d. 1850)
• 1815 – Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
• 1816 – William Henry Webb, American industrialist (d. 1899)
• 1834 – Charles Spurgeon, English preacher (d. 1892)
• 1846 – Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928)
• 1850 – David Jayne Hill, American diplomat (d. 1932)
• 1851 – Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (d. 1890)
• 1854 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian musician (d. 1893)
• 1858 – Sam Walter Foss, American librarian and poet (d. 1911)
• 1861 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, British World War I military figure (d. 1928)
• 1861 – José Rizal, Filipino poet (d. 1896)
• 1865 – Dame May Whitty, English entertainer (d. 1948)
• 1872 – Theodore Payne, English horticulturist (d. 1963)
• 1874 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer (d. 1941)
• 1877 – Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)
• 1884 – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French Dadaist artist and writer (d. 1974)
• 1896 – Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (d. 1986)
• 1897 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1967)
• 1897 – Moe Howard, American actor (d. 1975)
• 1898 – James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (d. 1968)
• 1900 – Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (d. 1986)
• 1902 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian bandleader (d. 1977)
• 1903 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
• 1903 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)
• 1903 – Hans Litten, German jurist (d. 1938)
• 1905 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
• 1906 – Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
• 1906 – Walter Rauff, German colonel (d. 1984)
• 1907 – Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1985)
• 1909 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (d. 1948)
• 1909 – Midori Naka, Japanese actress (d. 1945)
• 1910 – Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
• 1910 – Abe Fortas, American jurist (d. 1982)
• 1912 – Don Gutteridge, American baseball player (d. 2008)
• 1912 – Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Anthony of Sourozh, Swiis-born British religious figure (d. 2003)
• 1914 – Alan Cranston, American politician (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Lester Flatt, American musician (d. 1979)
• 1915 – Julius Schwartz, American editor and agent (d. 2004)
• 1915 – Pat Buttram, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1917 – Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabweian politician (d. 1999)
• 1919 – Pauline Kael, American movie critic (d. 2001)
• 1921 – Louis Jourdan, French actor
• 1922 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2009)
• 1922 – Fritz Schollmeyer, German football manager
• 1924 – Leo Nomellini, American football player (d. 2000)
• 1925 – Charlie Drake, British actor, writer and singer (d. 2006)
• 1928 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)
• 1928 – Barry Took, English comedy writer (d. 2002)
• 1929 – Thelma Barlow, English actress
• 1930 – Gena Rowlands, American actress
• 1930 – François Abadie, French politician (d. 2001)
• 1932 – Pier Angeli, Italian-born American actress (d. 1972)
• 1932 – Marisa Pavan, Italian-born actress
• 1933 – Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
• 1936 – Tommy DeVito, American musician and singer
• 1936 – Shirley Goodman, American singer (d. 2005)
• 1936 – Marisa Galvany, American soprano
• 1938 – Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (d. 2002)
• 1938 – Ian Smith, Australian actor
• 1939 – Bernd Hoss, German football manager
• 1939 – Al Wilson, American singer (d. 2008)
• 1940 – Shirley Muldowney, American drag racer
• 1941 – Václav Klaus, Czech politician and President
• 1941 – Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
• 1942 – Elaine McFarlane, American singer
• 1942 – Jos Brink, Dutch actor (d. 2007)
• 1942 – Merata Mita, New Zealander filmmaker (d. 2010)
• 1944 – Chico Buarque, Brazilian musician
• 1945 – Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel laureate
• 1945 – Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician
• 1946 – Jimmy Greenhoff, English footballer
• 1947 – Paula Koivuniemi, Finnish singer
• 1947 – Salman Rushdie, Indian author
• 1947 – John Ralston Saul, Canadian author
• 1948 – Phylicia Rashad, American actress
• 1948 – Nick Drake, English musician (d. 1974)
• 1950 – Ann Wilson, American musician
• 1951 – Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist
• 1951 – Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
• 1952 – Robert Ainsworth, British politician
• 1953 – Larry Dunn, American musician
• 1953 – Hilary Jones, English TV doctor
• 1954 – Kathleen Turner, American actress
• 1956 – Doug Stone, American singer
• 1957 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003)
• 1958 – Meredith Brooks, American singer/songwriter
• 1958 – Sergei Makarov, Russian hockey player
• 1959 – Mark DeBarge, American singer, songwriter and trumpeter
• 1959 – Christian Wulff, President of Germany
• 1960 – Luke Morley, British guitarist
• 1961 – Frank Mischke, German footballer
• 1962 – Paula Abdul, American singer and choreographer
• 1962 – Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
• 1963 – Rory Underwood, English rugby union footballer
• 1964 – Laura Ingraham, American radio host and political commentator
• 1964 – Boris Johnson, British politician
• 1964 – Brian Vander Ark, American musician
• 1965 – Sadie Frost, English actress
• 1965 – Luc Donckerwolke, Belgian car designer
• 1966 – Joichi Ito, Japanese entrepreneur
• 1966 – Michalis Romanidis, Greek basketball player
• 1967 – Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier
• 1967 – Mia Sara, American actress
• 1968 – Alastair Lynch, Australian rules footballer
• 1969 – Lara Spencer, American TV personality
• 1969 – Thomas Breitling, American entrepreneur
• 1970 – Quincy Watts, American athlete
• 1970 – Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
• 1970 – Brian Welch, American guitarist (Korn)
• 1970 – Antonis Remos, Greek singer
• 1972 – Brian McBride, American soccer player
• 1972 – Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress
• 1972 – Dennis Lyxzén, Swedish musician
• 1972 – Eric Sheffer Stevens, American actor
• 1972 – Robin Tunney, American actress
• 1973 – Jahine Arnold, American football player
• 1973 – Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer
• 1973 – Yasuhiko Yabuta, Japanese baseball player
• 1974 – Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player
• 1974 – Bumper Robinson, American actor and voice artist
• 1975 – Anthony Parker, American basketball player
• 1975 – Hugh Dancy, English actor
• 1976 – Bryan Hughes, English footballer
• 1976 – Patrick Surtain, American football player
• 1976 – Abdoul Thiam, German footballer
• 1977 – Peter Warrick, American football player
• 1977 – Veronika Vařeková, Czech supermodel
• 1977 – Rebecca Loos, Dutch model
• 1978 – Tyson Dux, Canadian wrestler
• 1978 – Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
• 1978 – Zoe Saldana, American actress
• 1978 – Claudio Vargas, Dominican baseball player
• 1978 – Mía Maestro, Argentine actress
• 1979 – Moonika Aava, Estonian javelin thrower
• 1979 – John Duddy, Northern Irish boxer
• 1979 – Quentin Jammer, American football player
• 1979 – José Kléberson, Brazilian football player
• 1980 – Adel Abdulaziz, Emiratie football player
• 1980 – Milka Loff Fernandes, German actress
• 1980 – Lauren Lee Smith, Canadian actress
• 1980 – Robbie Neilson, Scottish footballer
• 1980 – Dan Ellis, Canadian hockey player
• 1980 – Nuno Santos, Portuguese footballer
• 1981 – Moss Burmester, New Zealand swimmer
• 1981 – Quintin Geldenhuys, South African-born Italian rugby player
• 1982 – Chris Vermeulen, Australian motorcycle racer
• 1982 – David Pollack, American football player
• 1982 – May Andersen, Danish supermodel
• 1982 – Joe Cheng, Taiwanese actor
• 1982 – Michael Yarmush, American actor
• 1982 – Alexander Frolov, Russian hockey player
• 1982 – Trevor Hamilton, Northern Irish murderer
• 1983 – Mark Selby, British snooker player
• 1984 – Paul Dano, American actor
• 1985 – José Ernesto Sosa, Argentine footballer
• 1985 – Jason Capizzi, American football player
• 1986 – Marvin Williams, American basketball player
• 1986 – Diego Hypólito, Brazilian gymnast
• 1986 – Dimitris Sialmas, Greek footballer
• 1987 – Rashard Mendenhall, American football player

Deaths

• 1027 – Romuald, Italian saint (b. 951)
• 1205 – Roman the Great, Rus' prince (b. 1151)
• 1282 – Eleanor de Montfort, wife of Llywelyn the Last (b. 1252)
• 1312 – Piers Gaveston, British nobelman (b. c. 1284)
• 1542 – Leo Jud, Swiss reformer (b. 1482)
• 1545 – Abraomas Kulvietis, Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
• 1584 – François, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
• 1608 – Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)
• 1650 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (b. 1593)
• 1747 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669)
• 1762 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (b. 1702)
• 1768 – Benjamin Tasker, Sr., American colonial governor (b. 1690)
• 1786 – Nathanael Greene, American military commander (b. 1742)
• 1787 – Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrice of France, daughter of Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette (b. 1786)
• 1805 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (b. 1724)
• 1820 – Joseph Banks, English naturalist and botanist (b. 1743)
• 1844 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (b. 1772)
• 1867 – Maximilian I of Mexico (b. 1832)
• 1902 – Albert, King of Saxony (b. 1828)
• 1903 – Herbert Vaughan, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1832)
• 1921 – Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (b. 1888)
• 1922 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19^th Yokozuna (b. 1874)
• 1937 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (b. 1860)
• 1939 – Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
• 1949 – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Prominent Muslim philosopher (b. 1885)
• 1951 – Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet (b. 1884)
• 1952 – Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (b. 1888)
• 1953 – Julius Rosenberg, American convicted spy (b. 1918)
• 1953 – Ethel Rosenberg, American convicted spy (b. 1915)
• 1956 – Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (b. 1874)
• 1966 – Ed Wynn, American actor (b. 1886)
• 1968 – James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (b. 1898)
• 1975 – Sam Giancana, American gangster (b. 1908)
• 1977 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist (b. 1933)
• 1977 – Lady Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (b. 1889)
• 1979 – Paul Popenoe, American founder of marriage counseling and scholar of eugenics (b. 1888)
• 1984 – Lee Krasner, American painter (b. 1908)
• 1986 – Coluche, French comedian (b. 1944)
• 1986 – Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
• 1987 – Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (b. 1981)
• 1988 – Fernand Seguin, Canadian biologist (b. 1922)
• 1988 – Gladys Spellman, American politician (b. 1918)
• 1991 – Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1993 – William Golding, English writer; Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Peter Townsend, British military officer (b. 1914)
• 1996 – G. David Schine, American businessman (b. 1927)
• 1997 – Olga Georges-Picot, French actress (b. 1944)
• 1997 – Bobby Helms, American singer (b. 1933)
• 2001 – John Heyer, Australian documentarian (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Steve Broadie, American voice actor
• 2003 – Laura Sadler, English actress (b. 1980)
• 2007 – El Fary, Spanish singer (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (b. 1947)
• 2007 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Barun Sengupta, Bengali journalist (b. 1934)
• 2008 – Bennie Swain, American basketball player (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
• 2010 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
• 2010 – Anthony Quinton, British philosopher (b. 1925)

Holidays and observances

• Birthday of José Gervasio Artigas (Uruguay)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Gervasius and Protasius (Roman Catholic Church)
  • Juliana Falconieri
  • Romuald
  • Zosimus
  • June 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of the Independent Hungary (Hungary)
• Feast of Forest (Palawan)
• Juneteenth (United States, especially African Americans)
• Labour Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Laguna Day (Laguna)
• “Never Again” Day and Birthday of José Gervasio Artigas (Uruguay)
• Surigao del Sur Day (Surigao del Sur)
• World Sickle Cell Day (International)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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