Events
of the day
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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