June 19

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

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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Events

1179 - The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
1269 - King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
1306 - The Earl of Pembroke's defeat Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
1770 - Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion
1807 - Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
1816 - Battle of Seven Oaks between Northwest Company and Hudson Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
1821 - Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
1846 - First baseball game under recognizable modern rules in Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.
1860 - Louise of Orange-Nassau marries King Charles XV of Sweden-Norway.
1862 - U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying the Dred Scott Case.
1865 - Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is henceforth unofficially celebrated as Juneteenth.
1867 - Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
1870 - After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States of America, the Confederate States of America (AKA the CSA) ceases to exist.
1912 - The eight-hour work day is established in the United States.
1934 - The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
1943 - Race riots occur in Beaumont, Texas.
1944 - The Battle of the Philippine Sea takes place.
1949 - NASCAR sanctions the first "strictly stock" race, which will evolve into the modern Nextel Cup. Jim Roper wins the event.
1961 - Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
1970 - The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is signed.
1976 - King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Silvia Sommerlath.

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Births

1301 - Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (d. 1333)
1507 - Annibale Caro, Italian poet (d. 1566)
1566 - King James I of England and VI of Scotland (d. 1625)
1606 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
1623 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1662)
1633 - Philipp van Limborch, Dutch protestant theologian (d. 1712)
1764 - José Gervasio Artigas, father of Uruguay (d. 1850)
1771 - Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician, logician
1792 - Gustav Schwab, German author (d. 1850)
1834 - Charles Spurgeon, English preacher (d. 1892)
1846 - Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928)
1861 - Douglas Haig, British soldier (d. 1928)
1861 - José Rizal, Filipino poet and national hero (d. 1896)
1865 - Dame May Whitty, English entertainer (d. 1948)
1874 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (d. 1941)
1896 - Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (d. 1986)
1897 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
1897 - Moe Howard, American actor and comedian (d. 1975)
1898 - James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (d. 1968)
1902 - Guy Lombardo, Canadian bandleader (d. 1977)
1903 - Lou Gehrig, baseball player (d. 1941)
1903 - Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)
1906 - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)
1907 - Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1985)
1910 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
1914 - Alan Cranston, American politician (d. 2000)
1915 - Julius Schwartz, American editor and agent
1922 - Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1928 - Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)
1928 - Barry Took, British comedy writer and broadcaster (d. 2002)
1930 - Gena Rowlands, American actress
1932 - Pier Angeli, Italian-born actress (d. 1972)
1933 - Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut
1935 - John Spencer, English snooker player
1938 - Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (d. 2002)
1941 - Václav Klaus, Czech politician and President
1945 - Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1945 - Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician
1947 - Salman Rushdie, Indian author
1948 - Phylicia Rashad, American actress
1948 - Nick Drake, British guitarist
1951 - Ann Wilson, American singer
1954 - Kathleen Turner, American actress
1957 - Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003)
1960 - Luke Morley, British guitarist and songwriter
1962 - Paula Abdul, American singer and choreographer
1963 - Rory Underwood, English rugby player
1964 - Boris Johnson, British politician and journalist
1966 - Joichi Ito, Japanese Activist and Entrepreneur
1967 - Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier
1968 - Alastair Lynch, Australian footballer
1970 - Quincy Watts, American athlete
1970 - Rahul Gandhi, Indian Politician
1970 - Brian Welch, American guitarist (formerly of KoЯn)
1972 - Brian McBride, American soccer player
1972 - Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress (claims 1975 as her birth year)
1974 - Joshua John Fanene, American artist
1976 - Bryan Hughes, English footballer
1977 - Peter Warrick, American football player
1978 - Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
1979 - John Duddy, Northern Irish boxer
1979 - Quentin Jammer, American football player
1982 - David Pollack, American football player
1989 - Jake de la Fuente, Scholar ng Bayan