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This day in history: 19 June

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348 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 19 June.
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2020: Animal rights advocate Regan Russell is run over and killed by a transport truck outside of a pig slaughterhouse in Burlington, Ontario.

Holidays and observances

Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's commencement of work at the Workers' Party Central Committee (DPRK)

Birthday of Jose Gervasio Artigas (Uruguay)

Christian feast day: Blessed Michelina of Pesaro

Christian feast day: Deodatus (or Didier) of Nevers (or of Jointures)

Christian feast day: Gervasius and Protasius (Catholic Church)

Christian feast day: Hildegrim of Châlons

Christian feast day: Juliana Falconieri

Christian feast day: June 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Rémy Isoré

Christian feast day: Romuald

Christian feast day: Ursicinus of Ravenna

Christian feast day: Zosimus

Events

2020Animal rights advocate Regan Russell is run over and killed by a transport truck outside of a pig slaughterhouse in Burlington, Ontario.

2018Antwon Rose II is fatally shot in East Pittsburgh by East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld after being involved in a near-fatal drive-by shooting.

2018The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued.

2012WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requests asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army; he will remain the

2009Mass 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.

2009War 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.

2007The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.

2005Following a series of Michelin tire failures during the United States Grand Prix weekend at Indianapolis, and without an agreement being reached, 14 cars from seven teams in Michelin tires withdraw after completing the formation lap, leavin

1991The last Soviet army units in Hungary are withdrawn.

1990The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.

1990The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.

1988Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.

1987Aeroflot Flight N-528 crashes at Berdiansk Airport in present-day Ukraine, killing eight people.

1987Basque 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.

1985Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.

1982The People's Armed Police is de facto founded; it is officially established 10 months later on April 5, 1983.

1978Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication.

1965Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.

1964The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.

1961Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.

1960Charlotte Motor Speedway holds its first NASCAR race, the inaugural World 600.

1953Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.

1947Pan Am Flight 121 crashes in the Syrian Desert near Mayadin, Syria, killing 15 and injuring 21.

1945The Smoke Tragedy leaves 355 workers dead in the underground copper mine of El Teniente, Chile.

1943The Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL merge for one season due to player shortages caused by World War II.

1934The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

1926King Roger, an opera about Roger II of Sicily by Karol Szymanowski, is premiered at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw.

1921The village of Knockcroghery, Ireland, is burned by British forces.

1913Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.

1910The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.

1903Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.

1875The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.

1867Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.

1865Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are officially informed of their freedom. The anniversary was officially celebrated in Texas and other states as Juneteenth. On June 17, 2021, Ju

1862President Abraham Lincoln signs the Territorial Slavery Act of 1862, which prohibits slavery in all current and future United States territories.

1850Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden–Norway.

1846The first officially recorded, organized baseball game 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.

1821Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (in Wallachia).

1816Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

1811The Carlton House Fête is held in London to celebrate the establishment of the Regency era.

Born on this day

2004Millie Gibson, English actress

2002Bennedict Mathurin, Canadian basketball player

2002Nuno Mendes, Portuguese footballer

1999Jordan Poole, American basketball player

1998Atticus Shaffer, American actor and YouTuber

1998Joshua Da Silva, Trinidadian cricketer

1994Lejla Njemčević, Bosnian cross-country and mountain bike cyclist

1993KSI, English YouTuber

1992C. J. Mosley, American football player

1992Keaton Jennings, South African-English cricketer

1990Ashly Burch, American actress, writer, and director

1990Moa Hjelmer, Swedish sprinter

1990Xavier Rhodes, American football player

1988Jacob deGrom, American baseball player

1987Rashard Mendenhall, American football player

1986Aoiyama Kōsuke, Bulgarian sumo wrestler

1986Lázaro Borges, Cuban pole vaulter

1986Marvin Williams, American basketball player

1985Ai Miyazato, Japanese golfer

1985Dire Tune, Ethiopian runner

1985José Ernesto Sosa, Argentinian footballer

1984Andri Eleftheriou, Cypriot sport shooter

1984Paul Dano, American actor

1984Wieke Dijkstra, Dutch field hockey player

1983Aidan Turner, Irish actor

1983Macklemore, American rapper

1982Alexander Frolov, Russian ice hockey player

1982Chris Vermeulen, Australian motorcycle racer

1982Michael Yarmush, American actor

1981Mohammed Al-Khuwalidi, Saudi Arabian long jumper

1981Moss Burmester, New Zealand swimmer

1980Dan Ellis, Canadian ice hockey player

1980Jean Carroll, Irish cricketer

1980Nuno Santos, Portuguese footballer

1980Robbie Neilson, Scottish footballer and manager

1979José Kléberson, Brazilian footballer

1978Claudio Vargas, Dominican baseball player

1978Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player

1978Zoe Saldaña, American actress

1976Anita Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer

Died on this day

2020Ian Holm, British actor (born 1931)

2019Etika, American YouTuber and streamer (born 1990)

2018Koko, western lowland gorilla and user of American Sign Language (born 1971)

2017Otto Warmbier, American college student detained in North Korea (born 1994)

2016Anton Yelchin, American actor (born 1989)

2015James Salter, American novelist and short-story writer (born 1925)

2014Gerry Goffin, American songwriter (born 1939)

2014Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (born 1985)

2014Oskar-Hubert Dennhardt, German general (born 1915)

2013Dave Jennings, American football player and sportscaster (born 1952)

2013Filip Topol, Czech singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1965)

2013Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician, 37th Prime Minister of Hungary (born 1932)

2013James Gandolfini, American actor (born 1961)

2013Slim Whitman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1923)

2013Vince Flynn, American author (born 1966)

2012Norbert Tiemann, American soldier and politician, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (born 1924)

2010Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, English philosopher and academic (born 1925)

2010Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer, journalist and political activist (born 1938)

2010Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (born 1962)

2008Barun Sengupta, Bengali journalist, founded Bartaman (born 1934)

2007Alberto Mijangos, Mexican-American painter and educator (born 1925)

2007Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer-songwriter, actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1919)

2007Terry Hoeppner, American football player and coach (born 1947)

2007Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist and author (born 1932)

2004Clayton Kirkpatrick, journalist and newspaper editor (born 1915)

2001John Heyer, Australian director and producer (born 1916)

2001Stanley Mosk, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (born 1912)

1995Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (born 1914)

1993William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)

1991Jean Arthur, American actress (born 1900)

Quote of the day

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

Will Durant, on Aristotle

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