June 19

June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 195 days remaining.

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Events

1306 - Forces of Earl of Pembroke defeat Bruce's Scottish rebels at the Battle of Methven
1846 - First baseball game under recognizable modern rules in Hoboken, New Jersey.
1860 - Louise of Orange-Nassau marries King Charles XV of Sweden-Norway.
1865 - Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas are finally informed of their freedom. June 19th is unofficially celebrated as Juneteenth in the United States.
1912 - establishment of the 8-hour work day in the United States.
1934 - establishment of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the United States. The FCC regulates radio and television broadcasts.
1949 - NASCAR sanctions the first "strictly stock" race, which will evolve into the modern Nextel Cup. Jim Roper wins the event.
1950 - The first commercial drag strip, the Santa Ana Drags, begins at Orange County Airport (now John Wayne Airport) at Santa Ana, in Southern California. Admission is 50 cents -- or 75 cents if the ticket holder wanted to watch the mechanics work.
1954 - The last regular-service streetcar operated by Twin City Rapid Transit runs in Minneapolis
1970 - Signature of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
1976 - King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Silvia Sommerlath.
1978 - first appearance of the comic strip Garfield.
2000 - Datapoint, the company that commissioned the Intel 8008 microprocessor, sells its European operations and changes its name to Dynacore.

1623 - Blaise Pascal, mathematician (d. 1662)
1764 - José Gervasio Artigas, father of Uruguay (d. 1850)
1792 - Gustav Schwab, author (d. 1850)
1834 - Charles Spurgeon, preacher and evangelist (d. 1892)
1838 - Friedrich von Hessing, engineer (d. 1918)
1865 - Dame May Whitty, entertainer (d. 1948)
1882 - Guenter von Kluge, German field marshal, (d. 1944)
1882 - William F. Halsey Jr., American admiral, (d. 1957)
1896 - Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor (d. 1986)
1902 - Guy Lombardo, bandleader (d. 1977)
1903 - Lou Gehrig, baseball player (d. 1941)
1903 - Wally Hammond, cricketer (d. 1965)
1905 - Mildred Natwick, actress (d. 1994)
1914 - Alan Cranston, United States politician (d. 2000)
1924 - Anneliese Rothenberger, soprano
1930 - Gena Rowlands, actress
1932 - Pier Angeli, actress (d. 1972)
1933 - Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut
1945 - Aung San Suu Kyi, politician and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (1991)
1947 - Salman Rushdie, author
1948 - Phylicia Rashad, actress
1957 - Anna Lindh, Swedish politician and minister of foreign affairs (d. 2003)
1962 - Paula Abdul, singer and one of three judges on American Idol
1967 - Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian cross country skier
1970 - Quincy Watts, American athlete
1978 - Dirk Nowitzki, German NBA star