Today in
History ~ June 19
Events
0240 BC - Eratosthenes accurately estimated the diameter and circumference of Earth.
0325 - The early Christian church opened the general
council of Nicaea, which settled on rules for computing the
date of Easter.
1205 - Pope Innocent III fires Adolf I as archbishop of Cologne
1269 - King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame
1464 - French King Louis XI forms postal service
1586 - English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.
1778 - Washington leaves winter quarters at Valley Forge to intercept the British force on its way to New York City
1787 - The U.S. Constitutional Convention voted to strike
down the Articles of Confederation and form a new government.
1825 - Gioacchino Rossini's "Il viaggio a Reims," premieres
1829 - Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies)
1846 - First baseball game using Cartwright's rules was played-NY Nines 23,
Hoboken NJ Knickerbockers
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1856 - First Republican National Convention Ends [H]
1862 - Lincoln signs a law prohibiting slavery in U.S. Western territories
1864 - Off the coast of Cherbourg, France, the Confederate raider C.S.S. Alabama lost a ship-to-ship duel with the U.S.S. Kearsarge and sunk to the floor of the Atlantic
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1865 - Siege of Richmond, VA
1867 - Mexican Emperor Maximilian executed - Mexican republic restored
1867 - The first running of the Belmont Stakes took place
at Jerome Park, N.Y.
1875 - Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio
1881 - Muhammad Ahmad becomes Mahdi of Sudan
1885 - The Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States, arrived to New York City's
harbor aboard the French ship Isere. [H]
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Man with the Twisted Lip"
1910 - Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash)
1917 - Due to World War I, King George V ordered the British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames. The family took the name Windsor.on July 17
1921 - Turk & Christian of Palestine sign a friendship treaty against Jews
1931 - 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct
1932 - Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China PR
1934 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was created.
1937 - Franco-troops conquer Bilbao Basques
1940 - German 7th Armour division under gen-maj Rommel occupies Cherbourg
1941 - Cheerios Cereal invents an O-shaped cereal
1941 - Romania orders Jews to evacuate Darabani
1943 - World War II's Battle of the Philippine Sea began,
as Japan tried unsuccessfully to prevent further Allied
advancement in the South Pacific.
1944 - Heavy air raid on US fleet at Guam "Turkey Shoot", over 300 Japanese aircrafts shot down
1946 - 1st TV sports spectacular - Joe Louis vs Billy Conn
1947 - 1st plane to exceed 600 mph - Albert Boyd Muroc Ca
1948 - USSR blocks access road to West Berlin
1949 - NASCAR staged its first Grand National event at the Charlotte, North Carolina
Fairgrounds.
1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, N.Y.(Julius takes 3 tries - Ethel 5)
1955 - Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100
1961 - Kuwait gains independence from Britain
1961 - The Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's constitution requiring state officials to profess a belief in God.
1963 - Charter members of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen
1963 - Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova returned to Earth after spending nearly three days as the first woman in space.
1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day Senate filibuster.
1967 - Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army
1970 - A Nikolayev and V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9
1970 - Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published
1973 - "Rocky Horror Picture Show," stage production opens in London
1973 - Pete Rose & Willie Davis both get career hit # 2000
1976 - US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from earth
1977 - Pope Paul VI proclaimed a 19th-century Philadelphia bishop, John Neumann, the first male U.S. saint.
1978 - "Best Little Whorehouse..." opens at 46th St NYC for 1577 performances
1978 - Jim Davis's popular comic strip "Garfield" first appeared in print
1981 - Boeing Coml Chinook two-rotor helicopter gets certified
1981 - European Space Agency's Ariane carries two satellites into orbit
1982 - In a case that galvanized the Asian-American community, Vincent Chin, a
Chinese-American, was beaten to death outside a nightclub in Highland Park,
Mich., by auto worker Ronald Ebens.
1986 - Artificial heart recipient Murray P Haydon died in Louisville Ky
1987 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the 1981
Louisiana law that required schools to teach the creationist
theory of human origin espoused by fundamentalist Christians.
1987 - Wee Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak ends
1990 - Opening statements were presented in the drug and perjury trial of Washington D.C. mayor Marion Barry Jr. (Barry was later convicted of a single count of misdemeanor drug possession, and sentenced to six months in prison.)
1991 - Newly elected Russian President Boris Yeltsin lobbied Congress during a Washington visit as he sought closer ties.
1991 - The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a
plan to prohibit the export of military supplies to Iraq.
1991 - Pablo Escobar, head of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, surrendered to authorities.
1992 - Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels youth
anti-crime patrols, was shot and wounded by two men who laid
in wait in a taxi near his Manhattan home.
1992 - Results in Ireland showed
voters overwhelmingly approving the Maastricht Treaty on a European union.
1992 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin addressed the Canadian Parliament, saying
his country had abandoned totalitarianism for democracy.
1995 - Chechen rebels and more than 100 human shields rode a convoy of buses back to Chechnya following the end of a hostage drama at a Russian hospital.
1996 - Chief executives from seven states, police, state attorneys general and members of Congress met with President Clinton at the White House to discuss ways of stopping the recent torching of black churches.
1996 - New York City police announced that a shooting suspect in custody had been linked to the "Zodiac" shootings that terrorized New Yorkers in the early 1990s.
1999 - Britain's Prince Edward married commoner Sophie Rhys-Jones in Windsor, England.
1999 - The largest ever attendance at a woman's sporting event in the world to date, Opening day to the Women's World Cup in Giants Stadium, 78,992 people
2000 - The Los Angeles Lakers won their first championship in 12 years, defeating the Indiana Pacers 116-111 in game six of the NBA Finals. (The post-game celebration, however, was marred by violent fans.)
2000 - The Supreme Court reaffirmed, 6-3, that praying in public schools had to be private, barring officials from letting students lead stadium crowds in prayer before football games.
2001 - Strapped to the same padded gurney on which Oklahoma City bomber Timothy
McVeigh died, drug kingpin Juan Raul Garza received a chemical injection and
became the second inmate in eight days to be executed by the U.S.
government.
2001 - A jury in San Jose, Calif., convicted Andrew Burnett of tossing a little
dog to its death on a busy highway in a bout of road rage. He was sentenced to
three years in prison for the death of Leo, a fluffy white bichon frise.
Birthdays
Today
1566 - James Stuart, king of Scotland and England (James VI of Scotland,
1567-1625)(James I of England, 1603-1625)
1623 - Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer (Pascal)
1717 - Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer
1749 - Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, French revolutionary (Committee of Public Safety)
1856 - Elbert Hubbard, US, editor/publisher/author (Message to Garcia)
1881 - Jimmy Walker (politician)
1896 - Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, divorcee
1896 - Duchess of Windsor, divorcee
1897 - Moe Howard (actor: one of the original Three Stooges, Dr. Death, Seeker of Souls, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
1902 - Guy (Gaetano) Lombardo (bandleader: The Royal Canadians: "The most beautiful music this side of heaven.": Auld Lang Syne, The Third Man Theme)
1903 - [Henry] Lou[is] Gehrig, (The Iron Man: Baseball Hall of Famer: NY Yankees: 7 World Series; his uniform was the first to be retired)
1906 - Earl Bascom (rodeo showman and inventor: first side-delivery rodeo chute, first hornless bronc saddle, first one-handed bareback rigging)
1908 - Mildred Natwick (actress: Dangerous Liaisons, Barefoot in the Park, The Snoop Sisters, Tammy and the Bachelor)
1908 - Quentin N Burdick, (Sen-D-NC)
1909 - Osamu Dazai, Japanese novelist (Tsugaru No Longer Human)
1910 - Abe Fortes (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)
1912 - Martin Gabel (actor: Smile Jenny You're Dead, Lady in Cement)
1914 - Alan Cranston, (Seb-D-CA) Pres candidate
1914 - Harry Lauter, White Plains NY, actor (Waterfront)
1919 - Pauline Kael, Movie critic
1920 - Louis Jordan (Gendre) (actor: Gigi, Three Coins in the Fountain, The VIPs)
1921 - Howell Heflin, (Sen-D-AL)
1922 - Aage Nills Bohr, Denmark, physicist/study atomic nucleus (Nobel 1975)
1924 - Leo Nomellini, NFL defensive tackle (San Francisco 49ers)
1925 - Shelley Mayfield (golfer)
1928 - Nancy Marchand (actress: Lou Grant, Brain Donors, The Naked Gun, North and South Book 2)
1932 - Marisa Pavan (actress: Diary of Anne Frank, The Rose Tattoo, What Price Glory?, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit)
1932 - Pier Angeli (Anna Pierangeli) (actress: Battle of the Bulge, One Step to Hell, The Silver Chalice, S.O.S. Pacific)
1933 - Viktor I. Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
1936 - Gena Rowlands (actress: Peyton Place, A Woman under the Influence, Night on Earth; daughter of Wisconsin State Senator)
1936 - Tommy DeVito (singer: group: The Four Seasons: Sherry, Big Girls Don't Cry, Walk like a Man, Rag Doll)
1938 - Robert Aspromonte (baseball)
1939 - Al Wilson (musician: drummer, singer: Show and Tell)
1942 - Spanky (Elaine) McFarlane (singer: group: Spanky and Our Gang: Sunday Will Never Be the Same, Lazy Day, Like to Get to Know You, Give a Damn)
1943 - Malcolm McDowell (actor: some sources say Malcolm McDowell was born on June 13. Please see June 13 for more)
1947 - Salman Rushdie (author: The Jaguar Smile, Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses)
1947 - Walt McKechnie (hockey)
1948 - Phylicia Allen Ayers Rashad, in Houston Tx (actress: The Cosby Show, One Life to Live; dancer, Debbie Allen's sister; football announcer, Ahmad Rashad's wife)
1949 - Jerry Reuss (baseball: pitcher: LA Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates)
1951 - Ann Wilson, in San Diego (Heart)
1954 - Kathleen Turner (actress: Body Heat, Peggy Sue Got Married, Romancing the Stone, Serial Mom, Naked in New York, House of Cards, Accidental Tourist, The War of the Roses, The Doctors; voice of Jessica Rabbit in Roger Rabbit)
1959 - Mark DeBarge (musician: trumpet, sax: group: DeBarge: Rhythm of the Night)
1962 - Paula Abdul (singer: Forever Your Girl, Straight Up, Opposites Attract, Promises of a New Day; dancer: Laker Girl)
1978 - Garfield, the cat "Big fat hairy deal"
Famous
deaths
1312 - Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, beheaded
1341 - Juliana van Falconieri, Italian saint/Swedish tenor, dies
1747 - Alessandro Marcello, composer, dies at 77
1820 - Joseph Banks, English natural historian (Cook/Australia), dies
1867 - Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, installed as emperor of Mexico by French Emperor Napoleon III in 1864, was executed by firing
squad on the orders of Benito Juarez, the president of the Mexican Republic.
1902 - John E E Dalberg baron van Acton, English historian, dies at 69
1937 - James M Barrie, Scottish writer (Dear Brutus/Peter Pan), dies
1953 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, executed at Sing Sing 1st US civilians executed for espionage. They were convicted of assisting a Los Alamos spy pass atomic secrets to the Soviets. Occurring at the height of red hysteria in the 1950s, some evidence suggests that the US government was unsure of their guilt
1956 - Thomas Watson, founder and head of IBM, dies
1986 - Len Bias 1st pick of Celtics suffers fatal cocaine-induced seizure
1989 - Isidore Feinstein Stone, author (I F Stone's Weekly), dies at 81
1991 - Actress Jean Arthur died at age 90.
1993 - William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983), dies at 81
1995 - Murray Dickie, opera singer/director, dies at 71
2000 - Former Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita died in Tokyo at age 76.
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