June 19

June 19 in recent years

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2022 (Sunday)

2021 (Saturday)

2020 (Friday)

2019 (Wednesday)

2018 (Tuesday)

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, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
• 1770 – Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
• 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 game 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 Dred Scott v. Sandford.
• 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 Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
• 1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
• 1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
• 1913 – Natives' Land Act in South Africa implemented.
• 1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
• 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.
• 1978 &n dash; Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
• 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.
• 1985 – Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
• 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.
• 1990 – The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
• 1991 – The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
• 2007 – The Al-Khilani Mosque in Baghdad is bombed, killing 78 people and injuring 218 others.
• 2009 – Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
• 2009 – War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

Births

• 1301 – Prince Morikuni of Japan (d. 1333)
• 1566 – James I of England (d. 1625)
• 1595 – Guru Hargobind, Indian religious figure (d. 1644)
• 1606 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman and military leader (d. 1649)
• 1623 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1662)
• 1633 – Philipp van Limborch, Dutch theologian (d. 1712)
• 1701 – François Rebel, French composer (d. 1775)
• 1708 – Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, German composer (d. 1763)
• 1717 – Johann Stamitz, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1757)
• 1764 – José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan general (d. 1850)
• 1771 – Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
• 1792 – Gustav Schwab, German author (d. 1850)
• 1795 – James Braid, Scottish surgeon (d. 1860)
• 1815 – Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
• 1816 – William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist, founded the Webb Institute (d. 1899)
• 1834 – Charles Spurgeon, English preacher (d. 1892)
• 1846 – Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928)
• 1850 – David Jayne Hill, American diplomat and historian, 24th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1932)
• 1851 – Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (d. 1890)
• 1854 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer (d. 1893)
• 1858 – Sam Walter Foss, American librarian and poet (d. 1911)
• 1861 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, English army officer (d. 1928)
• 1861 – José Rizal, Filipino polymath (d. 1896)
• 1865 – May Whitty, English actress (d. 1948)
• 1872 – Theodore Payne, English horticulturist (d. 1963)
• 1874 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (d. 1941)
• 1877 – Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)
• 1884 – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French artist and writer (d. 1974)
• 1893 – Madeleine Astor, RMS Titanic survivor (d. 1940)
• 1896 – Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward VIII (d. 1986)
• 1897 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
• 1897 – Moe Howard, American actor (d. 1975)
• 1898 – James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (d. 1968)
• 1900 – Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (d. 1986)
• 1902 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American bandleader and violinist (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-English biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
• 1906 – Walter Rauff, German SS officer (d. 1984)
• 1907 – Clarence Wiseman, Canadian 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 Prize 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, Swiss-English writer and broadcaster (d. 2003)
• 1914 – Alan Cranston, American politician (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1979)
• 1915 – Pat Buttram, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1915 – Julius Schwartz, American publisher, writer, editor, and agent (d. 2004)
• 1917 – Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabweian politician (d. 1999)
• 1919 – Pauline Kael, American writer and critic (d. 2001)
• 1919 – Dave Lambert, American singer-songwriter and musician (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross) (d. 1966)
• 1921 – Louis Jourdan, French actor
• 1922 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
• 1922 – Fritz Schollmeyer, German football manager
• 1923 – Bob Hank, Australian footballer (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Leo Nomellini, American football player (d. 2000)
• 1925 – Charlie Drake, English actor, writer, and singer (d. 2006)
• 1928 – Tommy DeVito, American singer and guitarist (The Four Seasons and Four Lovers)
• 1928 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)
• 1928 – Barry Took, English comedian and writer (d. 2002)
• 1929 – Thelma Barlow, English actress
• 1930 – François Abadie, French politician (d. 2001)
• 1930 – Gena Rowlands, American actress
• 1931 – Hanley Funderburk, American academic (d. 2012)
• 1932 – Pier Angeli, Italian-American actress (d. 1972)
• 1932 – José Sanchis Grau, Spanish writer and illustrator (d. 2011)
• 1932 – Marisa Pavan, Italian actress
• 1933 – Viktor Patsayev, Soviet astronaut (d. 1971)
• 1934 – Gérard Latortue, Haitian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Haiti
• 1936 – Marisa Galvany, American soprano
• 1936 – Shirley Goodman, American singer (Shirley & Company) (d. 2005)
• 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 race car driver
• 1941 – Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino jurist
• 1941 – Václav Klaus, Czech politician, 2nd President of the Czech Republic
• 1942 – Jos Brink, Dutch actor (d. 2007)
• 1942 – Elaine McFarlane, American singer (Spanky and Our Gang)
• 1942 – Merata Mita, New Zealander director and producer (d. 2010)
• 1942 – Jeff Moss, American composer, lyricist, and playwright (d. 1998)
• 1944 – Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet
• 1945 – Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician
• 1945 – Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1946 – Jimmy Greenhoff, English footballer
• 1947 – Paula Koivuniemi, Finnish singer
• 1947 – Salman Rushdie, Indian author
• 1947 – John Ralston Saul, Canadian author
• 1948 – Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1974)
• 1948 – Phylicia Rashad, American actress
• 1950 – Ann Wilson, American singer-songwriter and musician (Heart)
• 1951 – Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist, 2nd leader of al-Qaeda
• 1951 – Patty Larkin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1951 – Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
• 1952 – Bob Ainsworth, English politician
• 1953 – Larry Dunn, American musician, songwriter, and producer (Earth, Wind & Fire)
• 1953 – Hilary Jones, English doctor
• 1954 – Kathleen Turner, American actress
• 1956 – Doug Stone, American singer and actor
• 1957 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003)
• 1958 – Sergei Makarov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1959 – Mark DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and musician (DeBarge)
• 1959 – Christian Wulff, German politician and lawyer, President of Germany
• 1960 – Luke Morley, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (The Union, Terraplane, and Thunder)
• 1961 – Frank Mischke, German footballer
• 1962 – Paula Abdul, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1962 – Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
• 1963 – Rory Underwood, English rugby player
• 1964 – Bill Barretta, American actor and puppeteer
• 1964 – Brent Goulet, American soccer player
• 1964 – Laura Ingraham, American radio host and author
• 1964 – Boris Johnson, English politician
• 1964 – Brian Vander Ark, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Verve Pipe)
• 1965 – Luc Donckerwolke, Belgian car designer
• 1965 – Sadie Frost, English actress
• 1966 – Joi Ito, Japanese-American businessman
• 1966 – Michalis Romanidis, Greek basketball player
• 1967 – Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier
• 1967 – Mia Sara, American actress
• 1968 – Alastair Lynch, Australian footballer
• 1969 – Thomas Breitling, American journalist and businessman
• 1969 – Lara Spencer, American journalist
• 1970 – Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
• 1970 – Antonis Remos, Greek singer
• 1970 – Quincy Watts, American runner
• 1970 – Brian Welch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Korn and Love and Death)
• 1972 – Jean Dujardin, French actor
• 1972 – Dennis Lyxzén, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician (Refused, AC4, Invasionen, Step Forward, and The (International) Noise Conspiracy)
• 1972 – Brian McBride, American soccer player
• 1972 – Eric Sheffer Stevens, American actor
• 1972 – Robin Tunney, American actress
• 1973 – Jahine Arnold, American football player
• 1973 – Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume and Dream Morning Musume)
• 1973 – Yasuhiko Yabuta, Japanese baseball player
• 1974 – Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player
• 1974 – Bumper Robinson, American actor
• 1975 – Hugh Dancy, English actor
• 1975 – Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress
• 1975 – Colin Osborne, English darts player
• 1975 – Anthony Parker, American basketball player
• 1975 – Geoff Ramsey, American voice actor and producer
• 1976 – Dennis Crowley, American businessman, co-founded Foursquare
• 1976 – Bryan Hughes, English footballer
• 1976 – Ryan Hurst, American actor
• 1976 – Patrick Surtain, American football player
• 1976 – Abdoul Thiam, German footballer
• 1977 – Rebecca Loos, Dutch model and television host
• 1977 – Veronika Vařeková, Czech model
• 1977 – Peter Warrick, American football player
• 1978 – Tyson Dux, Canadian wrestler
• 1978 – Mía Maestro, Argentine actress
• 1978 – Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
• 1978 – Zoe Saldana, American actress
• 1978 – Claudio Vargas, Dominican baseball player
• 1979 – Moonika Aava, Estonian javelin thrower
• 1979 – John Duddy, Irish boxer
• 1979 – U Gambira, Burmese monk and activist
• 1979 – Quentin Jammer, American football player
• 1979 – José Kléberson, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Adel Abdulaziz, Emirati footballer
• 1980 – Dan Ellis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Milka Loff Fernandes, German actress
• 1980 – Robbie Neilson, Scottish footballer
• 1980 – Nuno Santos, Portuguese footballer
• 1980 – Lauren Lee Smith, Canadian actress
• 1981 – Christina Baily, English actress
• 1981 – Moss Burmester, New Zealand swimmer
• 1981 – Quintin Geldenhuys, South African-Italian rugby player
• 1982 – Joe Cheng, Taiwanese actor
• 1982 – Alexander Frolov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Trevor Hamilton, Irish murderer
• 1982 – David Pollack, American football player
• 1982 – Chris Vermeulen, Australian motorcycle racer
• 1982 – Michael Yarmush, American actor
• 1982 – Jared Padalecki, American actor
• 1983 – Wouter Braaf, Dutch actor and singer
• 1983 – Tatjana Mihhailova, Estonian singer and actress
• 1983 – Mark Selby, English snooker player
• 1983 – Ben Haggerty, "Macklemore", American Rapper
• 1983 – Aidan Turner, Irish actor
• 1984 – Paul Dano, American actor
• 1984 – Wieke Dijkstra, Dutch field hockey player
• 1985 – Kajal Aggarwal, Indian actress
• 1985 – Jason Capizzi, American football player
• 1985 – Stéphanie Montreux, Australian actress
• 1985 – José Ernesto Sosa, Argentine footballer
• 1986 – Nazareno Casero, Argentine actor
• 1986 – Diego Hypólito, Brazilian gymnast
• 1986 – Erin Mackey, American actress and singer
• 1986 – Dimitris Sialmas, Greek footballer
• 1986 – Andrea De Falco, Italian footballer
• 1986 – Marvin Williams, American basketball player
• 1986 – Harley Yanoff, American actor
• 1987 – Sthefany Brito, Brazilian actress and model
• 1987 – Miho Fukuhara, Japanese singer
• 1987 – Rashard Mendenhall, American football player
• 1987 – Rachael Todd, American model, Miss Florida 2009
• 1991 – Michael McShae, American actor
• 1991 – Thomas Milner, English actor
• 1995 – Blake Woodruff, American actor
• 1996 – Larisa Iordache, Romanian gymnast
• 1998 – Atticus Shaffer, American actor !

Deaths

• 1027 – Romuald, Italian saint (b. 951)
• 1205 – Roman the Great, Swedish prince (b. 1151)
• 1282 – Eleanor de Montfort, English wife of Llywelyn the Last (b. 1252)
• 1312 – Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, English nobleman (b. 1284)
• 1542 – Leo Jud, Swiss reformer (b. 1482)
• 1545 – Abraomas Kulvietis, Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
• 1584 – Francis, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
• 1608 – Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)
• 1650 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver and publisher (b. 1593)
• 1747 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669)
• 1762 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (b. 1702)
• 1768 – Benjamin Tasker, Sr., American politician (b. 1690)
• 1786 – Nathanael Greene, American military commander (b. 1742)
• 1787 – Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrice of France, French 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)
• 1865 – Evangelos Zappas, Greek patriot, philanthropist and businessman (b. 1800)
• 1884 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian politician, writer and Constitution main promoter (b.1810)
• 1867 – Maximilian I of Mexico (b. 1832)
• 1902 – Albert of Saxony (b. 1828)
• 1903 – Herbert Vaughan, English archbishop (b. 1832)
• 1921 – Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (b. 1888)
• 1922 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (b. 1874)
• 1932 – Sol Plaatje, South African intellectual, writer, and activist (b. 1876)
• 1937 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (b. 1860)
• 1939 – Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
• 1949 – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Muslim philosopher (b. 1885)
• 1951 – Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet (b. 1884)
• 1952 – Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (b. 1888)
• 1953 – Ethel Rosenberg, American convicted spy (b. 1915)
• 1953 – Julius Rosenberg, American convicted spy (b. 1918)
• 1956 – Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (b. 1874)
• 1966 – Ed Wynn, American actor (b. 1886)
• 1968 – James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (b. 1898)
• 1975 – Sam Giancana, American mobster (b. 1908)
• 1977 – Olave Baden-Powell, English wife of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (b. 1889)
• 1977 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist (b. 1933)
• 1979 – Paul Popenoe, American explorer and scholar, founded Relationship counseling (b. 1888)
• 1984 – Lee Krasner, American painter (b. 1908)
• 1986 – Coluche, French comedian and actor (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 Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Peter Townsend, English 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 director and producer (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Steve Sheppard-Brodie, American voice actor
• 2003 – Laura Sadler, English actress (b. 1980)
• 2007 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)
• 2007 – El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (b. 1947)
• 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 engineer and super-centenarian (b. 1895)
• 2010 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
• 2010 – Anthony Quinton, English philosopher (b. 1925)
• 2011 – Don Diamond, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Anthony Bate, English actor (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Gerry Bron, English English record producer and band manager (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Richard Lynch, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Michael Palliser, English diplomat (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Aloysio José Leal Penna, Brazilian archbishop (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Emili Teixidor, Catalan writer and journalist (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Norbert Tiemann, American politician, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)

Holidays and observances

• 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 (Uruguay)
• Surigao del Sur Day (Surigao del Sur)
• World Sickle Cell Day (International)
• World Sauntering Day

External links

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

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