Historical Events on June 19

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• 936 Louis IV [Louis of Overseas], crowned King of France
• 1179 The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil war
• 1205 Pope Innocent III fires Adolf I as archbishop of Cologne

• 1269 King Louis IX of France decrees all Jews must wear a yellow badge in public or be fined 10 livres of silver
• 1286 Rabbi Mir of Rothenbur imprisoned in the fortress of Ensisheim, Alsace, by King Rudolf I (he died there seven years later)

• 1572 Garrison under Dutch Resisteance leader Adrian van Swieten occupies Oudewater
• 1586 English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, North Carolina
• 1588 Spanish Armada heavily damaged in storms in the Bay of Biscay along the Galician coast of Spain, some ships return to A Coruña for repairs
• 1603 Merga Bien arrested for witchcraft in Fulda, Germany, part of Fulda witch trials. She and about 250 people later burned at the stake.

• 1631 Peace of Cherasco: Charles de Gonzaga-Nevers becomes Duke of Mantua
• 1669 Polish parliament selects Litouwer Michael Wisniopwiecki as king

• 1754 Albany Congress held by seven British colonies & Iroquois indians
• 1770 Swedish theologian and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion

• 1790 French Revolution: The National Assembly issues a decree abolishing the titles, orders and other privileges of the French nobility
• 1807 Russian Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos during Russo-Turkish War
• 1816 Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba
• 1819 HMS Kite chases the steamship SS Savannah on its historic voyage across the Atlantic for 3 hours off the coast of Ireland believing it to be on fire. Unable to catch the steamship HMS Kite fires warning shots forcing it to stop and be inspected to the amazement of the British.
• 1821 Decisive defeat of the Greek revolutionary society Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia)

• 1835 New Orleans gives US government Jackson Square to be used as a mint
• 1846 First officially recognised baseball game (played by Cartwright Rules) - NY Nines 23 defeat Knickerbockers 1 at Hoboken, New Jersey
• 1861 Anaheim Post Office established
• 1861 Francis Pierpont is elected provisional governor of West Virginia
• 1862 Slavery outlawed in US territories
• 1863 Battle at Middleburg, Virginia, with 100+ casualties
• 1864 CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France
• 1864 Skirmish at Pine Knob, Georgia

• 1867 1st Belmont Stakes: Gilbert Gilpatrick aboard Ruthless wins in 3:05
• 1868 Major General E. R. S. Canby removes mayor of Columbia, South Carolina
• 1875 Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio in San Francisco
• 1875 The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins
• 1881 Muhammad Ahmad becomes Mahdi of Sudan
• 1897 MLB Baltimore Orioles outfielder Wee Willie Keeler's then-record 44 game hitting streak ends

• 1909 1st baseball game, an exhibition between local Elks lodge teams, played under lights in Cincinnati, Ohio
• 1910 1st airship in service "Germany"
• 1910 Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Washington)
• 1912 Tennessee University is established (as the Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State Normal School for Negroes), in Nashville, Tennessee
• 1913 Natives Land Act, Act No 27, passed in South Africa: confines Africans to hopelessly overcrowded reserves and deprives them of rights to purchase land outside the native reserves
• 1914 Hillcrest Mine Disaster: explosion at Hillcrest mine, Alberta, kills 189 men in Canada's worst mining disaster [1]
• 1917 The British Royal Family, which has had strong German ties since George I, renounces its German names and titles and adopts the name of Windsor
• 1919 Opposed to dismemberment of Turkey by the Allies, Mustafa Kemal declares his Turkish Nationalist Congress, headquartered in Ankara, independent of Constantinople
• 1921 Census held in Great Britain
• 1921 Turks and Christians of Palestine sign a friendship treaty against Jews

• 1923 Comic Strip "Moon Mullins" debuts
• 1924 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 1500m of 3:52.6; 50 minutes later sets 5,000m WR 14:28.2; also runs WR 3-mile time 14:02.00 within that event in Finnish Olympic trials in Helsinki
• 1926 DeFord Bailey is 1st African American to perform on Nashville's "Grand Ole Opry"
• 1931 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven, Connecticut
• 1932 1st concert given in San Francisco's Stern Grove
• 1932 Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China
• 1933 Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss' government bans Nazi organizations
• 1934 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created
• 1936 Dutch Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn denies relation with German call-girl

• 1937 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Beverly CC: Helen Hicks wins the first of her 2 major titles, defeating amateur Bea Barrett 6 & 5 in the final

• 1938 "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47
• 1938 FIFA World Cup Final, Stade Olympique de Colombes, Paris, France: Luigi Colausig & Silvio Piola each score 2 goals as Italy beats Hungary, 4-1
• 1938 Reds Johnny Vander Meer extends his string of hitless baseball innings to 21 2/3 before Debs Garms singles for Boston in 4th

• 1941 Romania orders Jewish evacuation of Darabani
• 1941 Soviet anthropologist Michael Gerasimov opens tomb of Timurid Empire founder Timur and allegedly finds the inscription that whoever opens the tomb shall "unleash an invader more terrible than I." Three days later Germany invades Russia.

• 1942 Paul Waner is 7th to get 3,000 baseball hits
• 1943 NFL's Philadelphia Eagles & Pittsburgh Steelers merge, (dissolves on Dec 5)
• 1944 Day one of the two-day Battle of the Philippine Sea, US naval forces defeat the Japanese fleet in World War II

• 1944 French troops free Elba
• 1944 Heavy air raid on US fleet at Guam "Turkey Shoot"
• 1944 Japanese troops conquer Changsha China
• 1945 El Teniente Mine accident [Smoke Tragedy] 355 men die from smoke inhalation from a fire in the Andes, Chile
• 1946 1st TV sports and boxing spectacular when Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in a broadcast across New York
• 1947 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc, California
• 1948 Panama and Costa Rica recognize Israel
• 1952 "I've Got A Secret" debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host
• 1952 Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine no-hits Chicago Cubs, 5-0
• 1953 Albert W Dent elected president of US National Health Council
• 1953 WCSC TV channel 5 in Charleston, South Carolina (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1953 WTPA (now WHTM) TV channel 27 in Harrisburg, PA (ABC) 1st broadcast

• 1954 Tasmanian Devil debuts in "Devil May Hare" by Warner Bros

• 1955 Philadelphia Phillies beat the Chicago Cubs, 1-0 in 15 innings; ties longest shutout in club history

• 1959 Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Secetary of Commerce
• 1960 1st Copa Libertadores Final, Asunción: Luis Cubilla scores 83' equaliser for Peñarol of Uruguay for 1-1 draw against Olimpia (Paraguay); win 2-1 on aggregate after taking 1st-leg 1-0 in Montevideo

• 1961 "Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)" by The Coasters peaks at #23

• 1961 Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom

• 1961 US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God
• 1963 2 Russian space missions return to Earth
• 1963 Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen
• 1963 Greek government of Pipinolis forms

• 1964 Cambuur Leeuwarden BVO soccer team forms in Leeuwarden

• 1965 Algerian coup under colonel Houari Boumedienne removes president Ahmed Ben Bella from power
• 1965 KYW-AM in Cleveland Ohio returns call letters to Philadelphia

• 1968 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign
• 1969 State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances

• 1970 Conservatives led by Edward Heath win British parliamentary election

• 1970 Russian cosmonauts Andriyan Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9, the longest crewed flight by a solo spacecraft
• 1970 The international Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed
• 1971 Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Georgia due to racial disturbance
• 1972 -29] Tropical storm Agnes upgraded to a hurricane, makes landfall in Panama City (would kill 128)
• 1972 A Catholic civilian is shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the Cracked Cup Social Club, Belfast
• 1972 Hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers face flight delays and cancellations after pilots threaten to strike over hijack fears
• 1972 Secretary of State for Northern Ireland William Whitelaw concedes 'special category' status, or 'political status' for paramilitary prisoners in Northern Ireland
• 1973 "The Rocky Horror Show" stage production first opens in London written by Richard O'Brian and directed by Jim Sharman and starring Tim Curry

• 1974 KC Royals pitcher Steve Busby throws his 2nd career no-hitter; beats Milwaukee Brewers, 2-0
• 1974 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) suspends constitution
• 1976 US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth

• 1977 Red Sox set 3 game record of 16 HRs, all against Yanks

• 1979 Mali's constitution goes into effect
• 1980 Battle between police and demonstrators in Capetown, 34 killed
• 1981 Boeing commercial Chinook 2-rotor helicopter is certified
• 1981 European Space Agency's Ariane carries 2 satellites into orbit
• 1981 Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa
• 1981 India's APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched
• 1982 The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London
• 1984 1st live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger (Nightline)

• 1987 ETA bomb attack in Barcelona, 15 killed

• 1987 Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation
• 1988 32 divers finish cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins
• 1988 Namphy takes control of Haitian government
• 1988 World's then largest sausage completed at 13 1/8 miles long
• 1989 Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of Oklahoma's football team

• 1991 NY Yankee Steve Howe records his 1st major league save since 1987
• 1991 Two of actress Mia Farrow's daughters are arrested for shoplifting lingerie

• 1992 Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa is shot twice in NYC
• 1992 Inkhata-blood bath in Boipatong South-Africa
• 1992 NY Yankees 1st game in Baltimore Oriole's Camden Yards

• 1994 Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia
• 1994 Tigers tie record of hitting HRs in 25th consecutive games

• 1997 "Forever Tango!" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC

• 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.
• 2006 Stanley Cup Final, PNC Arena, Raleigh, NC: Carolina Hurricanes beat Edmonton Oilers, 3-1 for a 4-3 series victory; Hurricane's first Championship

• 2012 A man is beheaded for witchcraft and sorcery in Saudi Arabia
• 2012 Antonis Samaras, the leader of the New Democracy party in Greece, forms a coalition government
• 2013 48 people are killed by armed bandits in Zamfara State, Nigeria

• 2015 The right-wing Venstre block wins the 2015 Danish general election

• 2017 Bexit negotiations begin between United Kingdom and the European Union in Brussels
• 2017 First full genetic study of cats published in "Nature Ecology and Evolution", reveals domesticated 9,000 years ago, descended from one species (African wildcat)
• 2017 Record 65.6 million people displaced around the world in 2016 reported by UN refugee agency
• 2017 Russia warns the US it will target US and allied aircraft over Syria after US fighter shoots down Syrian warplane
• 2018 Canada's Senate votes to legalize recreational marijuana use, first major economy to do so
• 2018 England smash the highest score (481/6) in one day international cricket history in a 242 run defeat of Australia (239) at Trent Bridge
• 2018 General Electric is dropped form the Dow Jones Index, the last original member from 1907

• 2019 UN says over 70 million people in the world are displaced, asylum seekers or refugees around the world, their highest-ever number in 70 years
• 2019 US NXIVM sex cult leader Keith Raniere found guilty in New York court of racketeering, sex trafficking and child pornography

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