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June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 195 days remaining 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 baseball game under recognizable modern rules is played in Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.
• 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.
• 1915 – The USS Arizona (BB-39) was launched from the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York.
• 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.
• 1970 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
• 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.
• 1998 – Shukrachakra is established.
• 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.
• 2009 – British troops begin Operation Panther's Claw, one of the largest air operations in modern times, when more than 350 troops made an aerial assault on Taliban positions and subsequently repelled Taliban counter-attacks.

Births

• 1301 – Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (d. 1333)
• 1566 – King James I of England and VI of Scotland (d. 1625)
• 1595 – Guru Har Gobind- 6th sikh guru (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 soldier (d. 1928)
• 1861 – José Rizal, Filipino poet and national hero (d. 1896)
• 1865 – Dame May Whitty, English entertainer (d. 1948)
• 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)
• 1910 – Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
• 1910 – Abe Fortas, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1982)
• 1912 – Don Gutteridge, American baseball player (d. 2008)
• 1912 – Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Anthony Bloom, Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church (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)
• 1917 – Joshua Nkomo, Vice President of Zimbabwe (d. 1999)
• 1919 – Louis Jourdan, French actor
• 1919 – Pauline Kael, American movie critic (d. 2001)
• 1922 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2009)
• 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
• 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 – Al Wilson, American singer (d. 2008)
• 1940 – Shirley Muldowney, Racecar Driver
• 1941 – Václav Klaus, Czech politician and President
• 1941 – Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
• 1942 – Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane, musician
• 1942 – Jos Brink, Dutch actor (d. 2007)
• 1944 – Chico Buarque, Brazilian musician
• 1945 – Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel laureate
• 1945 – Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician
• 1947 – Paula Koivuniemi, Finnish singer
• 1947 – Salman Rushdie, Indian 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
• 1954 – Kathleen Turner, American actress
• 1956 – Doug Stone, American singer
• 1957 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003)
• 1958 – Sergei Makarov, Russian hockey player
• 1959 – Mark DeBarge, American singer, songwriter and trumpeter
• 1960 – Luke Morley, British guitarist
• 1962 – Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
• 1962 – Paula Abdul, American singer and choreographer
• 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
• 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 'Head' Welch, American guitarist (Korn) and vocalist (Head)
• 1970 – Antonis Remos, Greek singer
• 1972 – Brian McBride, American soccer player
• 1972 – Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress
• 1972 – Dennis Lyxzén, Swedish musician
• 1972 – Robin Tunney, American actress
• 1973 – Jahine Arnold, American football player
• 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
• 1977 – Peter Warrick, American football player
• 1977 – Veronika Vařeková, Czech supermodel
• 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 – John Duddy, Northern Irish boxer
• 1979 – Quentin Jammer, American football player
• 1980 – Adel Abdulaziz, Emiratie football player
• 1980 – Lauren Lee Smith, Canadian actress
• 1981 – Moss Burmester, New Zealand swimmer
• 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
• 1986 – Marvin Williams, American basketball player
• 1986 – Diego Hypólito, Brazilian gymnast.
• 1987 – Rashard Mendenhall, American football player

Deaths

• 1027 – Romuald, Italian saint (b. 951)
• 1205 – Roman the Great, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1151)
• 1282 – Eleanor de Montfort, Wife of Llywelyn the Last, daughter of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and Eleanor of England (b. 1252)
• 1312 – Piers Gaveston, French favorite of Edward II of England (b. 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, Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
• 1786 – Nathanael Greene, American Revolutionary general (b. 1742)
• 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, Mexican Emperor (b. 1832)
• 1902 – Albert, King of Saxony (b. 1828)
• 1903 – Cardinal Herbert Vaughan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster (b. 1832)
• 1921 – Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (b. 1888)
• 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 spy (b. 1918)
• 1953 – Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (b. 1915)
• 1956 – Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (IBM) (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 eugenicist (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. Congresswoman (b. 1918)
• 1991 – Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1993 – William Golding, English writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Peter Townsend, RAF 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 documentary filmmaker (b. 1916)
• 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)

Holidays and observances

• Germanic Neopaganism: Ásatrú Alliance Founding Day
• Swedenborgianism: New Church Day
• Palawan: Feast of Forest
• Surigao del Sur: Surigao del Sur Day
• Laguna: Laguna Day
• Trinidad and Tobago: Labour Day
• United States: Juneteenth (state holiday in 31 states, originated in Texas)

Roman Catholic Church:

• Saint Romuald
• Saint Juliana Falconieri
• Gervasius and Protasius (Roman Catholic)
• Saint Zosimus

External links

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

Anniversary of Gerald and Anna Mae Beck

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for TV. ~ Kelly Ripa

• suggested by IP 66.157.63.6

2005

True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher. ~ Blaise Pascal (born 19 June 1623)

• proposed by Kalki

2006

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945)

• proposed by Kalki

2007

We are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us. They are saying that everyone is brutal, and the heroes must be as brutal as the villains or they turn into fools. There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship... Yet surely, when night after night atrocities are served up to us as entertainment, it's worth some anxiety. ... How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience? ~ Pauline Kael

• proposed by Kalki

2008

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi

• proposed by Kalki

2009

The wellspring of courage and endurance in the face of unbridled power is generally a firm belief in the sanctity of ethical principles combined with a historical sense that despite all setbacks the condition of man is set on an ultimate course for both spiritual and material advancement. At the root of human responsibility is the concept of perfection, the urge to achieve it, the intelligence to find a path towards it, and the will to follow that path if not to the end at least the distance needed to rise above individual limitations and environmental impediments. It is man's vision of a world fit for rational, civilized humanity which leads him to dare and to suffer to build societies free from want and fear. Concepts such as truth, justice and compassion cannot be dismissed as trite when these are often the only bulwarks which stand against ruthless power. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Suggestions

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. ~ Pauline Kael (born June 19, 1919)

• 3 InvisibleSun, 1 June 2006
• 2 Zarbon 04:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

I loved writing about things when I was excited about them... It's painful writing about the bad things in an art form, particularly when young kids are going to be enthusiastic about those things, because they haven't seen anything better, or anything different. ~ Pauline Kael

• 3 Kalki 22:02, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:54, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 04:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

The recurrence of certain themes in movies suggests that each generation wants romance restated in slightly new terms, and of course it’s one of the pleasures of movies as a popular art that they can answer this need. ~ Pauline Kael

• 3 Kalki 22:02, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:54, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 04:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

When you clean them up, when you make movies respectable, you kill them. The wellspring of their art, their greatness, is in not being respectable ~ Pauline Kael

• 2 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC) 3 Kalki 22:02, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:54, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
• 3 because beauty is found only in the original product. Zarbon 04:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances. ~ Blaise Pascal (born 19 June 1623)

• 3 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Knowledge of the first principles, like space, time, motion, number, is as solid as any derived through reason, and it is on such knowledge, coming from the heart and instinct, that reason has to depend and base all its arguments. ~ Blaise Pascal (born 19 June 1623)

• 3 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive. ~ Blaise Pascal (born 19 June 1623)

• 3 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. It is not enough merely to call for freedom, democracy and human rights. There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance and fear. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945)

• 3 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Is it not proven beyond all dispute that there is no limit to the enormities which men will commit when they are once persuaded that they are keepers of other men's consciences? To spread religion by any means, and to crush heresy by all means is the practical inference from the doctrine that one man may control another's religion. Given the duty of a state to foster some one form of faith, and by the sure inductions of our nature slowly but certainly persecution will occur. To prevent for ever the possibility of Papists roasting Protestants, Anglicans hanging Romish priests, and Puritans flogging Quakers, let every form of state-churchism be utterly abolished, and the remembrance of the long curse which it has cast upon the world be blotted out for ever. ~ Charles Spurgeon (born 19 June 1834)

• 3 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day. ~ Charles Spurgeon

• 3 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame. ~ Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947)

• 3 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each "I", everyone of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world. ~ Salman Rushdie

• 3 Kalki 23:30, 18 June 2009 (UTC) * 4 Kalki 19:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC) with very strong lean toward 4.

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on June 19.

From Wikia Gaming, your source for walkthroughs, games, guides, and more!

Game releases

• 1999
  • Counter-Strike Beta 1.0 released for the PC

Events

• 1992
  • Treasure, a Japanese game developer, is formed.

From Familypedia

June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 195 days remaining 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.
• 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 Northwest Company and Hudson Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• 1821 - Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
• 1846 - The first baseball game under recognizable modern rules is played in Hoboken, United States.
• 1850 - Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
• 1862 - 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, 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.
• 1870 - After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States of America, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist.
• 1910 - The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
• 1914 - A radiotelegraphic link is established between Germany and the United States and German Emperor Wilhelm II and US President Woodrow Wilson exchange telegrams to mark the event.
• 1934 - The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
• 1938 - Italy defeats Hungary 4-2 during the 1938 FIFA World Cup to become the first national team to defend a title.
• 1943 - Race riots occur in Beaumont.
• 1944 - The Battle of the Philippine Sea takes place.
• 1949 - NASCAR sanctions the first "strictly stock" race, which will evolve into the modern Nextel Cup. Jim Roper wins the event.
• 1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are put to death at Sing Sing, in New York.
• 1961 - Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1970 - The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is signed.
• 1978 - Garfield comic strip launches.
• 1982 - In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.
• 1987 - ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.

Births

• 1301 - Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (d. 1333)
• 1507 - Annibale Caro, Italian poet (d. 1566)
• 1566 - King James I of England and VI of Scotland (d. 1625)
• 1606 - James 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)
• 1858 - Sam Walter Foss, American librarian and poet (d. 1911)
• 1861 - Douglas Haig, British soldier (d. 1928)
• 1861 - José Rizal, Filipino poet and national hero (d. 1896)
• 1865 - Dame May Whitty, English entertainer (d. 1948)
• 1874 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer (d. 1941)
• 1877 - Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)
• 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)
• 1910 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
• 1910 - Abe Fortas, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1982)
• 1912 - Don Gutteridge, American baseball player
• 1912 - Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (d. 2005)
• 1914 - Anthony Bloom, Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church
• 1914 - Alan Cranston, American politician (d. 2000)
• 1914 - Lester Flatt, American musician (d. 1979)
• 1915 - Julius Schwartz, American editor and agent (d. 2004)
• 1919 - Louis Jourdan, French actor
• 1919 - Pauline Kael, American movie critic (d. 2001)
• 1922 - Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1924 - Leo Nomellini, American football player (d. 2000)
• 1925 - Charlie Drake, British actor, writer and singer (d. 2006)
• 1928 - Tommy DeVito, American musician and singer (The Four Seasons)
• 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
• 1932 - Pier Angeli, Italian-born American actress (d. 1972)
• 1932 - Marisa Pavan, Italian-born actress
• 1933 - Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut
• 1936 - Shirley Goodman, American singer (d. 2005)
• 1936 - Marisa Galvany, American soprano
• 1938 - Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and professional wrestler (d. 2002)
• 1938 - Ian Smith, Australian actor
• 1941 - Václav Klaus, Czech politician and President
• 1942 - Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane, musician (Spanky and Our Gang)
• 1942 - Jos Brink, Dutch actor (d. 2007)
• 1944 - Chico Buarque, Brazilian musician
• 1945 - Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel laureate
• 1945 - Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician
• 1947 - Paula Koivuniemi, Finnish singer
• 1947 - Salman Rushdie, Indian author
• 1948 - Phylicia Rashad, American actress
• 1948 - Nick Drake, English musician (d. 1974)
• 1950 - Ann Wilson, American musician (Heart)
• 1951 - Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
• 1953 - Larry Dunn, American musician (Earth)
• 1954 - Kathleen Turner, American actress
• 1956 - Doug Stone, American singer
• 1957 - Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003)
• 1960 - Luke Morley, British guitarist
• 1962 - Paula Abdul, American singer and choreographer
• 1962 - Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
• 1963 - Rory Underwood, English rugby union footballer
• 1964 - Boris Johnson, British politician
• 1964 - Brian Vander Ark, American musician (Verve Pipe)
• 1965 - Sadie Frost, English actress
• 1966 - Joichi Ito, Japanese entrepreneur
• 1967 - Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier
• 1967 - Mia Sara, American actress
• 1968 - Alastair Lynch, Australian rules footballer
• 1969 - Lara Spencer, American TV personality
• 1970 - Quincy Watts, American athlete
• 1970 - Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
• 1970 - Brian Welch, American guitarist (ex-KoЯn)
• 1970 - Antonis Remos, Greek singer
• 1972 - Brian McBride, American soccer player
• 1972 - Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress
• 1972 - Dennis Lyxzén, Swedish musician (Refused)
• 1973 - Jahine Arnold, American football player
• 1974 - Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player
• 1975 - Anthony Parker, American basketball player
• 1975 - Hugh Dancy, English actor
• 1976 - Bryan Hughes, English footballer
• 1976 - Patrick Surtain, American football player
• 1977 - Peter Warrick, American football player
• 1978 - Tyson Dux, Canadian professional wrestler
• 1978 - Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
• 1978 - Claudio Vargas, Dominican baseball player
• 1979 - John Duddy, Northern Irish boxer
• 1979 - Quentin Jammer, American football player
• 1980 - Adel Abdulaziz, Emiratie football player
• 1980 - Dante Robinson, American football player
• 1982 - David Pollack, American football player
• 1982 - Joe Cheng, Taiwanese actor
• 1983 - Mark Selby, British snooker player
• 1984 - Paul Dano, American actor
• 1985 - John Decyk, American MMA Fighter
• 1986 - Marvin Williams, American basketball player
• 1992 - Mariah Stanley, American singer
• 1995 - Blake Woodruff, American actor

Deaths

• 1312 - Piers Gaveston, French favorite of Edward II of England
• 1542 - Leo Jud, Swiss reformer (b. 1482)
• 1545 - Abraomas Kulvietis Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
• 1584 - François (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, provincial Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
• 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, Mexican Emperor (b. 1832), Executed
• 1902 - Albert (b. 1828)
• 1921 - Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (b. 1888)
• 1937 - J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (b. 1860)
• 1939 - Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
• 1952 - Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (b. 1888)
• 1953 - Julius Rosenberg, American spy (executed) (b. 1918)
• 1953 - Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (executed) (b. 1915)
• 1956 - Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (IBM) (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 Chief Girl Guide (b. 1889)
• 1979 - Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (b. 1888)
• 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, French Canadian biologist (b. 1922)
• 1988 - Gladys Spellman, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1918)
• 1993 - William Golding, English writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
• 1995 - Peter Townsend, RAF officer (b. 1914)
• 1996 - G. David Schine, American businessman (b. 1927)
• 1997 - Bobby Helms, American singer (b. 1933)
• 2001 - John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker (b. 1916)
• 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)

Holidays and observances

• Juneteenth – celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation.

Liturgical feasts

• Saint Romuald (died 1027)
• Blessed Odo of Cambrai
• Blessed Remi Isoré (died 1900)
• Saint Juliana Falconieri

External links

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

• On This Day in Canada