June
19
Events
June
19
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.
1667 – The Raid on the Medway begins. Within the next five days
the Dutch navy led by Michiel de Ruyter sails up the Thames
and the Medway, lays waste to ships anchored at the Royal Dockyard
in Chatham and tows away the English flagship HMS Royal Charles
as war booty. It is the worst defeat in the Royal Navy's history.
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 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 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 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.
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 – 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.
1991 – The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
1999 – Wedding of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Sophie Rhys-Jones.
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.
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)
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