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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.
325 – The original Nicene Creed was presented at the First Council of Nicaea .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.1800 – War of the Second Coalition Battle of Höchstädt results in a French victory over Austria.1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company , near Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada.1821 – Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (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 41 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.1903 – Benito Mussolini , then a radical Socialist, arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington .1913 – Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.1915 – USS Arizona (BB-39) is launched.1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).1943 – The Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL merge for one season due to player shortages caused by World War II.1944 – World War II : First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea .1949 – The first ever NASCAR race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway .1953 – Cold War : 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 .1965 – Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.1978 – Garfield 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 of Beirut , is kidnapped.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 45.1988 – Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs .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 bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.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 .
2012 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army .2018 – The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued.[1] 1301 – Prince Morikuni , shōgun 1417 – Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta , lord of Rimini (d. 1468)1566 – James VI and I of the United Kingdom (d. 1625)1590 – Philip Bell , British colonial governor (d. 1678)1595 – Hargobind , sixth Sikh guru (d. 1644)1598 – Gilbert Sheldon , Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1677)1606 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton , Scottish soldier and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (d. 1649)1623 – Blaise Pascal , French mathematician and physicist (d. 1662)1633 – Philipp van Limborch , Dutch author and theologian (d. 1712)1701 – François Rebel , French violinist and composer (d. 1775)1731 – Joaquim Machado de Castro , Portuguese sculptor (d. 1822)1764 – José Gervasio Artigas , Uruguayan general and politician (d. 1850)1771 – Joseph Diaz Gergonne , French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1859)1776 – Francis Johnson , American lawyer and politician (d. 1842)1783 – Friedrich Sertürner , German chemist and pharmacist (d. 1841)1793 – Joseph Earl Sheffield , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1882)1795 – James Braid , Scottish-English surgeon (d. 1860)1797 – Hamilton Hume , Australian explorer (d. 1873)1815 – Cornelius Krieghoff , Dutch-Canadian painter (d. 1872)1816 – William H. Webb , American shipbuilder and philanthropist, founded the Webb Institute (d. 1899)1833 – Mary Tenney Gray , American editorial writer, club-woman, philanthropist, and suffragette (d. 1904)1834 – Charles Spurgeon , English pastor and author (d. 1892)1840 – Georg Karl Maria Seidlitz , German entomologist and academic (d. 1917)1843 – Mary Sibbet Copley , American philanthropist (d. 1929)1845 – Cléophas Beausoleil , Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1904)1846 – Antonio Abetti , Italian astronomer and academic (d. 1928)1850 – David Jayne Hill , American historian and politician, 24th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1932)1851 – Billy Midwinter , English-Australian cricketer (d. 1890)1851 – Silvanus P. Thompson , English physicist, engineer, and academic (d. 1916)
1854 – Alfredo Catalani , Italian composer and academic (d. 1893)1854 – Hjalmar Mellin , Finnish mathematician and theorist (d. 1933)
1854 – Eleanor Norcross , American painter (d. 1923)
1855 – George F. Roesch , American lawyer and politician (d. 1917)1858 – Sam Walter Foss , American poet and librarian (d. 1911)1861 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig , Scottish-English field marshal (d. 1928)1861 – Émile Haug , French geologist and paleontologist (d. 1927)
1861 – José Rizal , Filipino journalist, author, and poet (d. 1896)
1865 – May Whitty , English actress (d. 1948)1871 – Alajos Szokolyi , Hungarian hurdler, jumper, and physician (d. 1932)1872 – Theodore Payne , English-American gardener and botanist (d. 1963)1874 – Peder Oluf Pedersen , Danish physicist and engineer (d. 1941)1876 – Nigel Gresley , Scottish-English engineer (d. 1941)1877 – Charles Coburn , American actor (d. 1961)1881 – Maginel Wright Enright , American illustrator (d. 1966)1883 – Gladys Mills Phipps , American horse breeder (d. 1970)1884 – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes , French painter and historian (d. 1974)1886 – Finley Hamilton , American lawyer and politician (d. 1940)1888 – Arthur Massey Berry , Canadian soldier and pilot (d. 1970)1891 – John Heartfield , German photographer and activist (d. 1968)1896 – Rajani Palme Dutt , English journalist and politician (d. 1974)1896 – Wallis Simpson , American wife of Edward VIII (d. 1986)
1897 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood , English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)1897 – Moe Howard , American comedian (d. 1975)
1902 – Guy Lombardo , Canadian-American violinist and bandleader (d. 1977)1903 – Mary Callery , American-French sculptor and academic (d. 1977)1903 – Lou Gehrig , American baseball player (d. 1941)
1903 – Wally Hammond , English cricketer and coach (d. 1965)
1903 – Hans Litten , German lawyer (d. 1938)
1905 – Mildred Natwick , American actress (d. 1994)1906 – Ernst Boris Chain , German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)1906 – Knut Kroon , Swedish footballer (d. 1975)
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 – Rūdolfs Jurciņš , Latvian basketball player (d. 1948)
1910 – Sydney Allard , English race car driver, founded the Allard Company (d. 1966)1910 – Paul Flory , American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
1910 – Abe Fortas , American lawyer and jurist (d. 1982)
1912 – Don Gutteridge , American baseball player and manager (d. 2008)1912 – Virginia MacWatters , American soprano and actress (d. 2005)
1913 – Helene Madison , American swimmer (d. 1970)1914 – Alan Cranston , American journalist and politician (d. 2000)1914 – Lester Flatt , American bluegrass singer-songwriter, guitarist, and mandolin player (d. 1979)
1915 – Pat Buttram , American actor (d. 1994)1915 – Julius Schwartz , American publisher and agent (d. 2004)
1917 – Joshua Nkomo , Zimbabwean guerrilla leader and politician, Vice President of Zimbabwe (d. 1999)1919 – Pauline Kael , American film critic (d. 2001)1920 – Yves Robert , French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2002)1921 – Louis Jourdan , French-American actor and singer (d. 2015)1922 – Aage Bohr , Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)1922 – Marilyn P. Johnson , American educator and diplomat, 8th United States Ambassador to Togo
1923 – Bob Hank , Australian footballer and coach (d. 2012)1926 – Erna Schneider Hoover , American mathematician and inventor1927 – Luciano Benjamín Menéndez , Argentine general and human rights violator (d. 2018)1928 – Tommy DeVito , American singer and guitarist (The Four Seasons )1928 – Nancy Marchand , American actress (d. 2000)
1930 – Gena Rowlands , American actress1932 – Pier Angeli , Italian actress (d. 1971)1932 – José Sanchis Grau , Spanish author and illustrator (d. 2011)
1932 – Marisa Pavan , Italian actress
1933 – Viktor Patsayev , Kazakh engineer and astronaut (d. 1971)1934 – Gérard Latortue , Haitian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Haiti 1936 – Marisa Galvany , American soprano and actress1937 – André Glucksmann , French philosopher and author (d. 2015)1938 – Wahoo McDaniel , American football player and wrestler (d. 2002)1939 – Bernd Hoss , German footballer and manager (d. 2016)1939 – John F. MacArthur , American minister and theologian
1941 – Václav Klaus , Czech economist and politician, 2nd President of the Czech Republic 1942 – Merata Mita , New Zealand director and producer (d. 2010)1944 – Chico Buarque , Brazilian singer, composer, writer and poet1945 – Radovan Karadžić , Serbian-Bosnian politician and convicted war criminal, 1st President of Republika Srpska 1945 – Aung San Suu Kyi , Burmese politician, Nobel Prize laureate
1945 – Tobias Wolff , American short story writer, memoirist, and novelist
1946 – Jimmy Greenhoff , English footballer and manager1947 – Salman Rushdie , Indian-English novelist and essayist1947 – John Ralston Saul , Canadian philosopher and author
1948 – Nick Drake , English singer-songwriter (d. 1974)1948 – Phylicia Rashad , American actress
1950 – Neil Asher Silberman , American archaeologist and historian1950 – Ann Wilson , American singer-songwriter and musician
1951 – Ayman al-Zawahiri , Egyptian terrorist1951 – Francesco Moser , Italian cyclist
1952 – Bob Ainsworth , English politician, Secretary of State for Defence 1954 – Mike O'Brien , English lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales 1954 – Lou Pearlman , American music producer and fraudster (d. 2016)
1954 – Kathleen Turner , American actress
1954 – Richard Wilkins , New Zealand-Australian journalist and television presenter
1955 – Mary O'Connor , New Zealand runner1955 – Mary Schapiro , American lawyer and politician
1957 – Anna Lindh , Swedish politician, 39th Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2003)1957 – Jean Rabe , American journalist and author
1958 – Sergei Makarov , Russian-American ice hockey player and coach1959 – Mark DeBarge , American singer-songwriter and trumpet player1959 – Christian Wulff , German lawyer and politician, 10th President of Germany
1960 – Andrew Dilnot , English economist and academic1960 – Johnny Gray , American runner and coach
1960 – Luke Morley , English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1960 – Patti Rizzo , American golfer
1962 – Paula Abdul , American singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, and presenter1962 – Jeremy Bates , English tennis player
1963 – Laura Ingraham , American radio host and author1963 – Margarita Ponomaryova , Russian hurdler
1963 – Rory Underwood , English rugby player, lieutenant, and pilot
1964 – Brent Goulet , American soccer player and manager1964 – Boris Johnson , British journalist and politician, Mayor of London
1964 – Brian Vander Ark , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 – Sabine Braun , German heptathlete1965 – Sadie Frost , English actress and producer
1966 – Michalis Romanidis , Greek basketball player1967 – Bjørn Dæhlie , Norwegian skier and businessman1968 – Alastair Lynch , Australian footballer and sportscaster1968 – Timothy Morton , American philosopher and academic
1968 – Kimberly Anne "Kim" Walker , American film and television actress1970 – Rahul Gandhi , Indian lawyer and politician1970 – Quincy Watts , American sprinter and football player
1970 – Brian Welch , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971 – José Emilio Amavisca , Spanish footballer1971 – Chris Armstrong , English footballer
1972 – Jean Dujardin , French actor1972 – Ilya Markov , Russian race walker
1972 – Brian McBride , American soccer player and coach
1972 – Poppy Montgomery , Australian-American actress
1972 – Robin Tunney , American actress
1973 – Jahine Arnold , American football player1973 – Yuko Nakazawa , Japanese singer
1973 – Yasuhiko Yabuta , Japanese baseball player
1974 – Doug Mientkiewicz , American baseball player, coach, and manager1975 – Hugh Dancy , English actor and model1975 – Anthony Parker , American basketball player
1976 – Anar Baghirov , Azerbaijani lawyer1976 – Dennis Crowley , American businessman, co-founded Foursquare
1976 – Bryan Hughes , English footballer and manager
1976 – Anita Wilson , American singer-songwriter and producer
1978 – Dirk Nowitzki , German basketball player1978 – Zoe Saldana , American actress
1978 – Claudio Vargas , Dominican baseball player
1979 – José Kléberson , Brazilian footballer1980 – Jean Carroll , Irish cricketer1980 – Dan Ellis , Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Robbie Neilson , Scottish footballer and manager
1980 – Nuno Santos , Portuguese footballer
1981 – Mohammed Al-Khuwalidi , Saudi Arabian long jumper1981 – Moss Burmester , New Zealand swimmer
1982 – Alexander Frolov , Russian ice hockey player1982 – Chris Vermuelen , Australian motorcycle racer
1983 – Macklemore , American rapper1983 – Aidan Turner , Irish actor
1984 – Paul Dano , American actor1984 – Wieke Dijkstra , Dutch field hockey player
1985 – Ai Miyazato , Japanese golfer1985 – José Ernesto Sosa , Argentinian footballer
1985 – Dire Tune , Ethiopian runner
1986 – Aoiyama Kōsuke , Bulgarian sumo wrestler1986 – Lázaro Borges , Cuban pole vaulter
1986 – Diego Hypólito , Brazilian gymnast
1986 – Marvin Williams , American basketball player
1987 – Rashard Mendenhall , American football player1987 – Mutsumi Tamura , Japanese voice actress
1988 – Jacob deGrom , American baseball player1990 – Moa Hjelmer , Swedish sprinter1990 – Xavier Rhodes , American football player
1992 – C. J. Mosley , American football player404 – Huan Xuan , Jin-dynasty warlord and emperor of Huan Chu (b. 369)626 – Soga no Umako , Japanese son of Soga no Iname (b. 551)930 – Xiao Qing , chancellor of Later Liang (b. 862)1027 – Romuald , Italian mystic and saint (b. 951)1185 – Taira no Munemori , Japanese soldier (b. 1147)[2] 1282 – Eleanor de Montfort , Welsh princess (b. 1252)1312 – Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall , English politician (b. 1284)1341 – Juliana Falconieri , Italian nun and saint (b. 1270)1364 – Elisenda of Montcada , queen consort and regent of Aragon (b. 1292)1504 – Bernhard Walther , German astronomer and humanist (b. 1430)1542 – Leo Jud , Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1482)1545 – Abraomas Kulvietis , Lithuanian-Russian lawyer and jurist (b. 1509)1567 – Anna of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg (b. 1507)1584 – Francis, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)1608 – Alberico Gentili , Italian lawyer and jurist (b. 1551)1650 – Matthäus Merian , Swiss-German engraver and publisher (b. 1593)1747 – Alessandro Marcello , Italian composer and educator (b. 1669)1747 – Nader Shah , Persian leader (b. 1688)
1762 – Johann Ernst Eberlin , German organist and composer (b. 1702)1768 – Benjamin Tasker Sr. , American soldier and politician, 10th Colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)1786 – Nathanael Greene , American general (b. 1742)1805 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée , French painter and educator (b. 1724)1820 – Joseph Banks , English botanist and author (b. 1743)1844 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire , French zoologist and biologist (b. 1772)1864 – Richard Heales , English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Victoria (b. 1822)1864 – Sarah Rosetta Wakeman , American soldier (b. 1843)
1865 – Evangelos Zappas , Greek-Romanian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1800)1884 – Juan Bautista Alberdi , Argentinian-French politician and diplomat (b. 1810)1867 – Maximilian I of Mexico (b. 1832)1874 – Ferdinand Stoliczka , Moravian palaeontologist and ornithologist (b. 1838)1903 – Herbert Vaughan , English cardinal (b. 1832)1918 – Francesco Baracca , Italian fighter pilot (b. 1888)1921 – Ramón López Velarde , Mexican poet and author (b. 1888)1922 – Hitachiyama Taniemon , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (b. 1874)1932 – Sol Plaatje , South African journalist and activist (b. 1876)1937 – J. M. Barrie , Scottish novelist and playwright (b. 1860)1939 – Grace Abbott , American social worker and activist (b. 1878)1940 – Maurice Jaubert , French composer and conductor (b. 1900)1941 – C. V. Hartman , Swiss botanist and anthropologist (b. 1862)1941 – Otto Hirsch , German jurist and politician (b. 1885)
1949 – Syed Zafarul Hasan , Indian philosopher and academic (b. 1885)1951 – Angelos Sikelianos , Greek poet and playwright (b. 1884)1953 – Ethel Rosenberg , American spy (b. 1915)1953 – Julius Rosenberg , American spy (b. 1918)
1956 – Thomas J. Watson , American businessman (b. 1874)1962 – Frank Borzage , American film director and actor (b. 1894)1966 – Ed Wynn , American actor and comedian (b. 1886)1968 – James Joseph Sweeney , American bishop (b. 1898)1975 – Sam Giancana , American mob boss (b. 1908)1977 – Ali Shariati , Iranian sociologist and philosopher (b. 1933)1979 – Paul Popenoe , American explorer and scholar, founded Relationship counseling (b. 1888)1984 – Lee Krasner , American painter and educator (b. 1908)
1986 – Len Bias , American basketball player (b. 1963)1987 – Margaret Carver Leighton , American author (b. 1896)1988 – Fernand Seguin , Canadian biochemist and academic (b. 1922)1988 – Gladys Spellman , American lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
1989 – Betti Alver , Estonian author and poet (b. 1906)1990 – George Addes , American trade union leader, co-founded United Automobile Workers (b. 1911)1991 – Jean Arthur , American actress (b. 1900)1993 – William Golding , British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)1995 – Peter Townsend , Burmese-English captain and pilot (b. 1914)2001 – Stanley Mosk , American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1912)2001 – John Heyer , Australian director and producer (b. 1916)
2007 – Antonio Aguilar , Mexican singer-songwriter, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)2007 – Alberto Mijangos , Mexican-American painter and educator (b. 1925)
2007 – Terry Hoeppner , American football player and coach (b. 1947)
2007 – Ze'ev Schiff , Israeli journalist and author (b. 1932)
2008 – Barun Sengupta , Bengali journalist, founded Bartaman 2008 – Bennie Swain , American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
2009 – Tomoji Tanabe , Japanese engineer and surveyor (b. 1895)2010 – Manute Bol , Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (b. 1962)2010 – Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton , English philosopher and academic (b. 1925)
2010 – Carlos Monsiváis , Mexican writer, journalist and political activist (b. 1938)
2012 – Emili Teixidor , Catalan journalist and author (b. 1933)
2012 – Norbert Tiemann , American soldier and politician, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)
2013 – Vince Flynn , American author (b. 1966)2013 – James Gandolfini , American actor and producer (b. 1961)
2013 – Gyula Horn , Hungarian politician, 37th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
2013 – Dave Jennings , American football player and sportscaster (b. 1952)
2013 – Filip Topol , Czech singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1965)
2013 – Slim Whitman , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923)
2014 – Oskar-Hubert Dennhardt , German general (b. 1915)2014 – Gerry Goffin , American songwriter (b. 1939)
2014 – Ibrahim Touré , Ivorian footballer (b. 1985)
2015 – Earl Norem , American painter and illustrator (b. 1924)2015 – James Salter , American novelist and short-story writer (b. 1925)
2016 – Anton Yelchin , American actor (b. 1989)2017 – Otto Warmbier , American college student detained in North Korea (b. 1994)2018 – Koko , western lowland gorilla and user of American Sign Language (b. 1971)Holidays and observances [ edit ] References [ edit ] External links [ edit ]
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