Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 19

This is a list of selected June 19 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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  Nguyễn Cao Kỳ
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  Alexander Cartwright
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  Maximilian I of Mexico
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  Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
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  Michael Schumacher during qualifying races for the 2005 United States Grand Prix
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  Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel of Sweden
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  Louise of the Netherlands
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  Manifest of slaves aboard the Katherine Jackson

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
325 – The original Nicene Creed, a statement of belief widely used in Christian liturgy, was adopted at the First Council of Nicaea.	Large % of unreferenced material
1269 – Louis IX of France imposed a fine of ten livres of silver on Jews found in public without a yellow badge.	refimprove section
1306 – Wars of Scottish Independence: The Earl of Pembroke's English army defeated Robert the Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.	refimprove
1800 – General Jean Victor Marie Moreau led French forces to victory at the Battle of Höchstädt, opening the Danube passageway to Vienna.	Primary sources; large part of the article is sourced to the involved commander
1816 – The Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, rival fur-trading companies, engaged in a violent confrontation in present-day Winnipeg, Canada.	Self-published sources, missing page numbers
1850 – Louise of the Netherlands married Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.	unreferenced section (Ancestry)
1944 – World War II: The navies of the United States and Imperial Japan engaged each other off the Mariana Islands in the Philippine Sea.	refimprove section
1961 – Kuwait declared independence from the United Kingdom.	featured on February 25
1978 – Garfield, created by Jim Davis, debuted in American newspapers nationwide, eventually becoming one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips.	refimprove/unref sections
1991 – The last Soviet Army soldiers left Hungary, ending the Soviet occupation.	needs more footnotes, date not in article
Leo Jud |d|1542	lead too short, lots of CN tags (10)
May Whitty |b|1865	unreferenced section (Filmography)
* 2006 – The ceremonial "first stone" of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a facility established to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds from locations worldwide in an underground cavern in Spitsbergen, Norway, was laid.	Undercited

Eligible

• 1718 – An earthquake on the Tibetan Plateau led to the deaths of more than 73,000 people.
• 1846 – The first officially recorded baseball game in U.S. history using modern rules was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, with the "New York Nine" defeating the New York Knickerbockers 23–1.
• 1867 – Second French intervention in Mexico: Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico was executed by firing squad in Querétaro City.
• 1953 – Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (pictured) were executed as spies for passing nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union.
• 1965 – Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, the commander of the South Vietnam Air Force, was appointed prime minister at the head of a military regime.
• 1987 – Basque separatist group ETA detonated a car bomb at the Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona, killing 21 people and injuring 45 others.
• 2005 – Only six race cars competed in the United States Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana, after all the Michelin-shod entrants were withdrawn due to safety concerns.
• 2009 – Mass rioting broke out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
• 2010 – The royal wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling took place in Stockholm Cathedral.
• 2012 – Facing allegations of sexual assault in Sweden, Julian Assange (pictured), the founder of WikiLeaks, requested asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
• Born/died this day: | Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall |d|1312| Guru Hargobind |b|1595| Friedrich Sertürner |b|1783| Mary Tenney Gray |b|1833| Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig |b|1861| Sarah Rosetta Wakeman |d|1864| Evangelos Zappas |d|1865| Wallis Simpson|b|1896| Lou Gehrig |b|1903| Doris Sands Johnson |b|1921| Aage Bohr |b|1922| Erna Schneider Hoover |b|1926| Nick Drake |b|1948| Boris Johnson |b|1964| Jörg Widmann |b|1973| Macklemore |b|1983| Len Bias |d|1986| James Gandolfini |d|2013| Gerry Goffin|d|2014|

Notes

• Wedding of Prince Carl Philip and Sofia Hellqvist appears on June 13, so Victoria–Westling wedding should not appear in the same year

June 19: Juneteenth in the United States (1865)

Lou Gehrig baseball card

• 1785 – The proprietors of King's Chapel, Boston, voted to adopt James Freeman's prayer book, thus establishing the first Unitarian church in the Americas.
• 1838 – The Jesuits' Maryland province contracted to sell 272 slaves to buyers in Louisiana in one of the largest slave sales in American history.
• 1939 – American baseball player Lou Gehrig was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, now commonly known in the United States as "Lou Gehrig's Disease".
• 1970 – The international Patent Cooperation Treaty was signed, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of its contracting states.
• 2009 – War in Afghanistan: British forces began Operation Panther's Claw, in which more than 350 troops made an aerial assault on Taliban positions in Southern Afghanistan.

• Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (d. 1844)
• Sarah Rosetta Wakeman (d. 1864)
• Aage Bohr (b. 1922)
• Clayton Kirkpatrick (d. 2004)

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