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.
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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