June 19
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June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 195 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1301 – Prince Morikuni, Japanese Shogun (d. 1333)
- 1566 – King James VI of Scotland (James I of England) (d. 1625)
- 1595 – Guru Hargobind, Indian religious figure (d. 1644)
- 1606 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
- 1764 – Jose Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan national hero (d. 1850)
- 1792 – Gustav Schwab, German author (d. 1850)
- 1795 – James Braid, Scottish surgeon (d. 1860)
- 1815 – Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
- 1842 – Carl Zeller, Austrian jurist, politician and composer (d. 1898)
- 1854 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer (d. 1893)
- 1861 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, British field marshal and soldier (d. 1928)
- 1861 – Jose Rizal, Filipino national hero (d. 1896)
- 1865 – May Whitty, English actress (d. 1948)
- 1896 – Wallis Simpson, American, Duchess of Windsor through marriage to the abdicated Edward VIII (d. 1986)
- 1897 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist (d. 1967)
- 1900 – Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (d. 1986)
- 1901 – Piero Gobetti, Italian journalist, intellectual and activist (d. 1926)
- 1902 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian musician (d. 1979)
- 1903 – Hans Litten, German jurist (d. 1938)
- 1903 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
- 1906 – Ernst Boris Chain, German biochemist, won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)
- 1910 – Paul Flory, American chemist (d. 1985)
- 1917 – Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean politician (d. 1999)
- 1922 – Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (d. 2009)
- 1933 – Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
- 1934 – Gerard Latortue, Haitian politician
- 1939 – Al Wilson, American singer (d. 2008)
- 1941 – Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic
- 1945 – Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician and pro-Democracy campaigner, Nobel Peace Prize winner
- 1945 – Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian-Serb politician, on trial for War crimes
- 1947 – Salman Rushdie, Indian-born author
- 1948 – Nick Drake, English musician and singer (d. 1974)
- 1949 – Hassan Shehata, Egyptian football manager
- 1951 – Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist (al-Qaeda)
- 1952 – Bob Ainsworth, British politician
- 1954 – Kathleen Turner, American actress
- 1957 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, Foreign minister (d. 2003)
- 1958 – Sergei Makarov, Soviet ice hockey player
- 1959 – Christian Wulff, former President of Germany
- 1962 – Paula Abdul, American dancer and singer; American Idol judge
- 1964 – Boris Johnson, British politician, Mayor of London
- 1965 – Sadie Frost, British actress
- 1967 – Bjorn Daehlie, Norwegian skier
- 1967 – Mia Sara, American actress
- 1970 – Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
- 1970 – Quincy Watts, American athlete
- 1972 – Jean Dujardin, French actor
- 1972 – Brian McBride, American soccer player
- 1972 – Robin Tunney, American actress
- 1977 – Rebecca Loos, Dutch model
- 1978 – Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
- 1978 – Zoe Saldana, American actress
- 1979 – Jose Kleberson, Brazilian footballer
- 1980 – Lauren Lee Smith, Canadian actress
- 1980 – Robbie Neilson, Scottish footballer
- 1982 – Chris Vermeulen, Australian motorcycle racer
- 1982 – Alexander Frolov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1983 – Mark Selby, British snooker player
- 1984 – Paul Dano, American actor
- 1986 – Dimitris Sialmas, Greek footballer
- 1995 – Blake Woodruff, American actor
Deaths [change]
- 1027 – Romuald, Italian saint (b. 951)
- 1179 – Earl Erling Skakke, Norwegian nobleman
- 1205 – Roman the Great, Russian prince (b. 1151)
- 1282 – Eleanor de Montfort, wife of Llywelyn the Last (b. 1252)
- 1867 – Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (b. 1832)
- 1902 – Albert, King of Saxony (b. 1828)
- 1922 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1874)
- 1937 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish writer (b. 1860)
- 1939 – Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
- 1953 – Ethel Rosenberg, American convicted of Espionage (b. 1915)
- 1953 – Julius Rosenberg, American convicted of Espionage (b. 1918)
- 1975 – Sam Giancana, American mafioso (b. 1908)
- 1977 – Olave Baden-Powell, founder of the Girl Guides (b. 1899)
- 1981 – Lotte Reiniger, German illustrator (b. 1899)
- 1984 – Lee Krasner, American painter (b. 1908)
- 1986 – Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
- 1993 – William Golding, British writer (b. 1911)
- 1995 – Peter Townsend, British military officer (b. 1914)
- 2009 – Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest man at the time of his death (b. 1895)
- 2010 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
Events [change]
- 1179 – Battle of Kalskinnet in takes place outside Nidaros (present-day Trondheim). Earl Erling Skakke is killed, as the battle changes the tidein the civil wars.
- 1269 – Louis IX of France orders that all Jews in public in France without their yellow badge should be fined 10 livres of silver.
- 1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Robert the Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
- 1862 – US Congress prohibits Slavery in US territories.
- 1867 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico is executed by a firing squad.
- 1910 – The first Father's Day is observed in Spokane, Washington. In some Western countries, including the US and UK, it is still observed on the third Sunday in June.
- 1938 – In France, the Italy national football team wins the FIFA World Cup for a second time, defeating the Hungary national football team 4-2.
- 1953 – After being convicted of espionage, Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg are executed in New York City.
- 1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the UK.
- 1965 – In Algeria, President Ahmed Ben Bella is removed in a military coup, and replaced by Houari Boumedienne.
- 1976 – King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Silvia Sommerlath.
- 1978 – Jim Davis' comic strip about a lazy and overeating cat named Garfield is published for the first time.
- 1982 – The body of "God's banker" Roberto Calvi is found hanging at the Blackfriars Bridge in London.
- 1987 – Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its worst terrorist attacks, on a supermarket in Barcelona.
- 1991 – Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
- 1992 – In Heavyweight Boxing, Evander Holyfield becomes world champion, defeating Larry Holmes.
- 1999 – The computer game Counter-strike is released.
- 1999 – In Seoul, South Korea, it is announced that Turin, Italy, is to host the 2006 Winter Olympics.
- 2006 – Prime Ministers of several Northern European countries participate in a ceremonial "laying of the first stone" at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway.
- 2010 – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden marries Daniel Westling.
Observances [change]
- Day of Independent Hungary
- Juneteenth (United States)
- Labour Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
- Never Again Day (Uruguay)
- World Sickle Cell Day
