Notable Historical Events on June 19th
June 19th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
987 |
Louis IV, 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 wars. |
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 |
1286 |
Rabbenu Mir of Rothenbur imprisoned in fortress of Ensisheim |
1306 |
The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Robert Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven. |
1464 |
French King Louis XI forms postal service |
1502 |
Emperor Maximilian I & England sign treaty of Antwerp |
1572 |
Garrison under Adrian van Swieten occupy Oudewater |
1586 |
English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island NC |
1588 |
Spanish Armada heavily destroyed in storm at Coruna |
1610 |
Samuel de Champlain and his French army defeat the Mohawk people at the Battle of Sorel in New France, present-day Sorel-Tracy, Quebec |
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 |
General Church of New Jerusalem established |
1770 |
Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion. |
1778 |
Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge |
1807 |
Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos. |
1816 |
Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
1821 |
Decisive defeat of the Greek revolutionary society Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia). |
1825 |
Gioacchino Rossini's "Il viaggio a Reims" premieres |
1829 |
Robert Peel founds the London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies) |
1835 |
New Orleans gives US government Jackson Square to be used as a mint |
1846 |
First offically 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 (100+ casualties) |
1864 |
CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France |
1864 |
Skirmish at Pine Knob Georgia |
1865 |
Siege of Richmond, VA |
1865 |
Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas |
1867 |
1st Belmont: J Gilpatrick aboard Ruthless wins in 3:05 |
1868 |
Maj Gen E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC |
1875 |
Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio |
1875 |
The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins. |
1881 |
Muhammad Ahmad becomes Mahdi of Sudan |
1889 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Man with the Twisted Lip" |
1893 |
Lizzie Bordon acquitted |
1894 |
28th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Henry of Navarre wins in 1:56.5 |
1897 |
Wee Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak ends |
1900 |
In the USA, the Republican Party nominate President William McKinley for re-election, but choose a new candidate for Vice-President: Theodore Roosevelt |
1910 |
1st airship in service "Germany" |
1910 |
Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash) |
1912 |
Tennessee University opened as Tennessee A & L State College |
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 |
54th British Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 306 at Prestwick Club |
1921 |
Census held in Great Britain |
1921 |
Turks & Christians of Palestine sign a friendship treaty against Jews |
1922 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:28.2) |
1923 |
Comic Strip "Moon Mullins" debuts |
1923 |
Baldwin-Mellon-agreement concerning Britain entering the war |
1924 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 1500m (3:52.6) |
1926 |
DeFord Bailey is 1st black to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry |
1931 |
1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct |
1932 |
1st concert given in SF's Stern Grove |
1932 |
Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China |
1933 |
Austrian government-Dollfuss bans nazi-organizations |
1934 |
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created |
1936 |
Dutch Premier Colijn denies relation with German call-girl |
1936 |
German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis |
1936 |
Joe McCarthy is named to manage AL All-Stars, rather than high-strung Mickey Cochrane, who is very close to a nervous breakdown |
1937 |
Franco-troops conquer Bilbao Basques |
1938 |
"Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47 |
1938 |
Italy beats Hungary 4-1 in soccer's 3rd World Cup at Paris |
1938 |
Paul Waner (Pirates) homers off Pete Sivess (Phillies) in DH |
1938 |
Reds Johnny Vander Meer extends his string of hitless baseball innings to 21 2/3 before Debs Garms singles for Boston in 4th |
1940 |
"Brenda Starr", 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago |
1940 |
German 7th Armoured division under command of Rommel occupies Cherbourg |
1940 |
Hermann Goering orders seizure of Dutch horses, car, buses & ships |
1941 |
Cheerios Cereal invents an O-shaped cereal |
1941 |
Romania orders Jews to evacuate Darabani |
1941 |
US President Franklin Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act |
1942 |
Paul Waner is 7th to get 3,000 baseball hits |
1943 |
"Shiekh Of Araby" Spike Jones & City Slickers peaks at #19 |
1943 |
NFL's Philadelphia Eagles & Pittsburgh Steelers merge, (dissolves on Dec 5) |
1943 |
Race riot in Beaumont Texas |
1944 |
French troops free Elba |
1944 |
Heavy air raid on US fleet at Guam "Turkey Shoot" |
1944 |
Japanese troops conquer Changsha China |
1944 |
World War II: First day of the 2 day Battle of the Philippine Sea, US naval forces defeat Japanese fleet |
1946 |
1st TV sports/boxing spectacular-Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn |
1947 |
1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc Ca |
1948 |
Panama & Costa Rica recognize Israel |
1948 |
USSR blocks access road to West Berlin |
1952 |
"I've Got A Secret" debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host |
1952 |
Bkln Dodger 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, SC (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
WTPA (now WHTM) TV channel 27 in Harrisburg, PA (ABC) 1st broadcast |
1954 |
54th US Golf Open: Ed Furgol shoots a 284 at Baltusrol GC in NJ |
1954 |
Betty Jameson wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
1954 |
Tasmanian Devil debuts in "Devil May Hare" by Warner Bros |
1955 |
55th US Golf Open: Jack Fleck shoots a 287 at Olympic CC in SF |
1955 |
Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100 |
1955 |
Phils beat Cubs 1-0 in 15, ties longest shut out in Phillies history |
1956 |
Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin end partnership after 16 films |
1959 |
Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Secetary of Commerce |
1960 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open |
1960 |
Loretta Lynn records "Honky Tonk Girl" |
1961 |
"Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)" by Coasters peaks at #23 |
1961 |
Charlie Finley, changes A's manager Joe Gordon (26-33) for Hank Bauer |
1961 |
Kuwait declares independence from UK |
1961 |
NY Yankee Roger Maris hits his 25th of 61 HRs |
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 |
1963 |
Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth |
1964 |
Bob Dylan completes UK tour |
1964 |
Cambuur Leeuwarden BVO soccer team forms in Leeuwarden |
1964 |
Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27 |
1965 |
Algerian coup under colonel Houari Boumedienne, pres Ben Bella fired |
1965 |
KYW-AM in Cleveland Ohio returns call letters to Philadelphia |
1966 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open |
1967 |
Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD |
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 |
A Nikolayev & V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9 |
1970 |
Conservatives win British parliamentary election |
1970 |
Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published |
1970 |
Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 2nd of 3 times in 28 days |
1970 |
The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed. |
1971 |
Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Ga, racial disturbance |
1972 |
-29] Hurricane Agnes, kills 118 in NY & Florida |
1972 |
Hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers face flight delays and cancellations after pilots threaten to strike over hijack fears |
1972 |
A Catholic civilian is shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the Cracked Cup Social Club, Belfast |
1972 |
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland William Whitelaw concedes 'special category' status, or 'political status' for paramilitary prisoners in Northern Ireland |
1973 |
"Rocky Horror Picture Show" stage production opens in London |
1973 |
Pete Rose & Willie Davis both get career hit # 2,000 |
1974 |
KC Royal Steve Busby 2nd 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 |
77th US Golf Open: Hubert Green shoots a 278 at Southern Hills Tulsa |
1977 |
Indians fire manager Frank Robinson & replace him with Jeff Torborg |
1977 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
1977 |
Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cen bishop John Neumann 1st US male saint |
1977 |
Red Sox set 3 game record of 16 HRs, all against Yanks |
1978 |
"Best Little Whorehouse..." opens at 46th St NYC for 1577 perfs |
1978 |
Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip |
1978 |
Ian Botham takes 8-34 v Pakistan, his best Test cricket bowling |
1979 |
In NY 36,211 show up to witness return of Billy Martin as Yank mgr |
1979 |
Mali's constitution goes into effect |
1980 |
Battle between police & 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. |
1983 |
"Octopussy" premieres in US |
1983 |
Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
1984 |
"Weird Al" Yankovic gives free live performance at Del Mar Fair |
1984 |
1st live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger (Nightline) |
1985 |
Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place |
1986 |
Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup |
1987 |
ETA bomb attack in Barcelona, 15 killed |
1987 |
Geffen records sign their 1st artist (Donna Summer) |
1987 |
Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation |
1987 |
Ben & Jerry Ice Cream & Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia |
1988 |
88th US Golf Open: Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Country Club Mass |
1988 |
Coup in Haiti |
1988 |
Namphy takes control of Haitian government |
1988 |
Shirley Furlong wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
1988 |
World's Largest Sausage completed at 13 1/8 miles long |
1988 |
32 divers finish cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins |
1989 |
Mets Dwight Gooden wins his 100th game (100-37) |
1990 |
Gary Carter catches his 1,862nd career game breaks Al Lopez's NL mark |
1991 |
2 of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie |
1991 |
Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar surrenders to police |
1991 |
NY Yankee Steve Howe records his 1st major league save since 1987 |
1992 |
"Batman Returns" is released in USA movie theatres |
1992 |
Evander Holyfield beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
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 |
1992 |
"Batman Returns", starring Michael Keaton as Batman, Danny Devito as the Penguin, and Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, is released |
1993 |
Boon completes 15th Test cricket century, 164* v England at Lord's |
1994 |
"Sally Marrand Her Escorts" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 50 perfs |
1994 |
"She Loves Me" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC after 294 performances |
1994 |
"Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" closes at Cort NYC after 72 perfs |
1994 |
94th US Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 279 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont Pa |
1994 |
Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia |
1994 |
Lisa Kiggens wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament |
1994 |
Tigers tie record of hitting HRs in 25th consecutive games |
1995 |
NY Yankees announce agreement with Darryl Strawberry |
1997 |
"Forever Tango!" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC |
1999 |
At about 4:30 pm, Stephen King is hit by a car on the shoulder of Route 5, in Lovell, Maine. He would suffer numerous injuries, including a collapsed right lung, multiple fractures of his right leg, scalp laceration and a broken hip |
2000 |
Los Angeles Lakers beat Indiana Pacers 4-2 in NBA finals MVP: Shaquille O'Neal, L.A. |
2000 |
Tiger Woods wins golf's US Open by 15 shots, a record for all majors, with a US Open to-par record score of -12 |
2000 |
54th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Indiana Pacers, 4 games to 2 |
2005 |
Michael Schumacher wins controversial Formula 1 United States Grand Prix where only 6 of 20 cars complete the race amongst ridicule |
2005 |
105th US Golf Open: Michael Campbell shoots a 280 at Pinehurst GR NC |
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. |
2011 |
111th US Golf Open: Rory McIlroy shoots a 268 at Congressional GC MD |
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 |
2016 |
UK's Sunday Times urges readers to vote for "Leave" |
2016 |
20 Russian Soccer Fans Deported by France for Fighting |
2017 |
Van rams worshippers leaving London mosque, killing at least one |
2017 |
Brooks Koepka caps a record week with US Open title |
2017 |
US shoots down Syrian fighter jet over Syria |
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