June 19

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.

Events

Up to 1950

• 936 – Louis IV of France is crowned as the West Frankish King in the city of Laon.
• 1179 – Battle of Kalskinnet in takes place outside Nidaros (present-day Trondheim). Earl Erling Skakke is killed, as the battle changes the progress of 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.
• 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
• 1770 – Emmanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ is his work True Christian Religion.
• 1815 – A day after the Battle of Waterloo, the Battle of Wavre is fought, as the last battle of the Napoleonic Wars.
• 1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between the Northwest Company and the Hudson's Bay Company near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• 1821 – The Coronation of King George IV of the United Kingdom takes place in London. The expensive (costs a lot of money) coronation banquet is the last-to-date at the crowning of a British monarch.
• 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules in Hoboken, New Jersey.
• 1850 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries the future King Charles XIII of Sweden.
• 1862 – US Congress prohibits Slavery in US territories.
• 1865 – Slaves in Galveston, Texas, are informed of their freedom, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Texas and thirteen other US states celebrate this as "Juneteenth".
• 1867 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico is executed by a firing squad.
• 1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
• 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.
• 1911 – Norwegian football club Molde FK is founded.
• 1913 – The Natives' Land Act in South Africa is introduced.
• 1936 – Max Schmeling defeats Joe Louis to win the World Heavyweight Boxing title.
• 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.
• 1944 – World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

1951 – 2010

• 1953 – After being convicted of espionage, Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg are executed in New York City.
• 1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the UK.
• 1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved in the US.
• 1965 – In Algeria, President Ahmed Ben Bella is removed in a military coup, and replaced by Houari Boumedienne.
• 1970 – The Patent Convention Treaty is signed.
• 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.
• 1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, the Indigenous Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
• 1991 – In the Croatian War of Independence, the Battle of Dubrovnik starts.
• 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.
• 2002 – Steve Fossett starts his round-the-world journey in a hot-air balloon.
• 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.
• 2007 – The Al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad kills 78 people.
• 2009 – Mass riots involving thousands of civilians and police officers break out in Shishou, China, after the unexplained death of a local chief.
• 2010 – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden marries Daniel Westling.

From 2011

• 2012 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asks for asylum in Ecuador at the country's embassy in London.
• 2013 – At 10pm, Singapore's 3-hour PSI reading set an all-time high record of 321 in the Hazardous range, surpassing the previous record of 226 during the 1997 haze. This is the first time that Singapore's PSI has entered the Hazardous range.^[1]
• 2014 – King Felipe VI of Spain ascends to the throne after the abdication of his father, King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
• 2016 – Virginia Raggi, of the Five Star Movement, is elected as the first female Mayor of Rome.
• 2017 – 2017 Finsbury Park attack: A van is driven into a crowd of Muslim worshippers in London's Finsbury Park area, causing several injuries; the attacker is arrested by police.
• 2018 – The United States pulls out of the United Nations Human Rights council.
• 2018 – Canada decides to legalise the recreational use of cannabis.
• 2019 – Four men are named as suspects in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Eastern Ukraine in 2014, in which 298 people were killed.

Births

Up to 1900

• 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)
• 1623 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1662)
• 1701 – François Rebel, French composer (d. 1775)
• 1717 – Johann Stamitz, Czech composer and violinist (d. 1757)
• 1731 – Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (d. 1822)
• 1764 – José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan national hero (d. 1850)
• 1771 – Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
• 1790 – John Gibson, Welsh sculptor (d. 1866)
• 1792 – Gustav Schwab, German writer (d. 1850)
• 1795 – James Braid, Scottish surgeon (d. 1860)
• 1815 – Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
• 1816 – William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist (d. 1899)
• 1842 – Carl Zeller, Austrian jurist, politician and composer (d. 1898)
• 1846 – Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928)
• 1850 – David Jayne Hill, American diplomat and historian (d. 1932)
• 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)
• 1871 – Alajor Szokolyi, Hungarian hurdler, jumper and physician (d. 1932)
• 1874 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (d. 1941)
• 1877 – Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)
• 1878 – Yakov Yurovsky, Russian Bolshevik, chief executioner of the Tsarist family (d. 1938)
• 1880 – Jóhann Sigurjónsson, Icelandic playwright and poet (d. 1919)
• 1884 – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French artist and writer (d. 1974)
• 1891 – John Heartfield, German painter and photomontage artist (d. 1968)
• 1893 – Madeleine Astor, American survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1940)
• 1896 – Wallis Simpson, American, Duchess of Windsor through marriage to the abdicated Edward VIII (d. 1986)
• 1897 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist (d. 1967)
• 1897 – Moe Howard, American comedian (d. 1975)
• 1900 – Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (d. 1986)

1901 – 1950

• 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)
• 1903 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)
• 1905 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
• 1906 – Ernst Boris Chain, German biochemist, won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)
• 1907 – Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1985)
• 1909 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (d. 1948)
• 1909 – Midori Naka, Japanese actress (d. 1945)
• 1910 – Paul Flory, American chemist (d. 1985)
• 1910 – Sydney Allard, English racing driver (d. 1966)
• 1914 – Alan Cranston, American politician (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1979)
• 1915 – Julius Schwartz, American publisher, writer and editor (d. 2004)
• 1917 – Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean politician (d. 1999)
• 1919 – Pauline Kael, American writer and critic (d. 2001)
• 1920 – Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (d. 2002)
• 1921 – Doris Sands Johnson, Bahamian teacher, suffragette and politician (d. 1983)
• 1921 – Louis Jourdan, French actor (d. 2015)
• 1922 – Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (d. 2009)
• 1923 – Andrés Rodríguez Pedotti, President of Paraguay (d. 1997)
• 1926 – Anneliese Rothenberger, German soprano (d. 2010)
• 1928 – Tommy DeVito, American singer and guitarist
• 1930 – Gena Rowlands, American actress
• 1931 – Sudarshan Agarwal, Indian politician (d. 2019)
• 1932 – Pier Angeli, Italian actress (d. 1971)
• 1932 – Marisa Pavan, Italian actress
• 1933 – Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
• 1934 – Gérard Latortue, Haitian politician
• 1934 – Terence Clark, English diplomat
• 1936 – Zacharias Heinesen, Faroese painter
• 1937 – André Glucksmann, French philosopher (d. 2015)
• 1938 – Jean-Claude Labrecque, Canadian director and cinematographer
• 1938 – Karl Moik, Austrian entertainer (d. 2015)
• 1939 – Al Wilson, American singer (d. 2008)
• 1940 – Paul Shane, English actor (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Vaclav Klaus, former President of the Czech Republic
• 1944 – Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer-songwriter and poet
• 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
• 1946 – Michael Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme, English diplomat
• 1947 – Salman Rushdie, Indian-born writer
• 1948 – Nick Drake, English musician and singer (d. 1974)
• 1948 – Phylicia Rashad, American actress
• 1949 – Hassan Shehata, Egyptian football manager
• 1950 – Ann Wilson, American singer

1951 – 1975

• 1951 – Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
• 1951 – Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist (al-Qaeda)
• 1952 – Bob Ainsworth, British politician
• 1953 – Larry Dunn, American musician (Earth, Wind & Fire)
• 1954 – Kathleen Turner, American actress
• 1955 – Don McCarthy, British businessman (d. 2018)
• 1957 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, Foreign minister (d. 2003)
• 1958 – Sergei Makarov, Soviet ice hockey player
• 1959 – Anne Hidalgo, French politician, Mayor of Paris
• 1959 – Christian Wulff, former President of Germany
• 1959 – Mark DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and trumpeter
• 1959 – Sophie Grigson, English cookery writer and chef
• 1961 – Bidhya Devi Bhandari, 2nd President of Nepal
• 1962 – Masanao Sasaki, Japanese footballer
• 1962 – Paula Abdul, American dancer and singer; American Idol judge
• 1962 – Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
• 1964 – Boris Johnson, English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1965 – Sadie Frost, English actress
• 1967 – Bjorn Daehlie, Norwegian skier
• 1967 – Mia Sara, American actress
• 1969 – Yoshiaki Sato, Japanese footballer
• 1970 – Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
• 1970 – Quincy Watts, American athlete
• 1970 – Brian Welch, American musician
• 1972 – Jean Dujardin, French actor
• 1972 – Brian McBride, American soccer player
• 1972 – Robin Tunney, American actress
• 1972 – Ilya Markov, Russian athlete
• 1972 – Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress
• 1972 – Dagur B. Eggertsson, Icelandic politician, Mayor of Reykjavik
• 1973 – Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer and actress
• 1973 – Yasuhito Yabuta, Japanese baseball player
• 1973 – Nadiya, French singer
• 1975 – Hugh Dancy, British actor

From 1976

• 1977 – Rebecca Loos, Dutch model
• 1977 – Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (d. 2007)
• 1977 – Sacha Modolo, Italian road-racing cyclist
• 1978 – Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
• 1978 – Zoe Saldana, American actress
• 1978 – Maria Maestro, Argentine actress and singer
• 1979 – José Kléberson, 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
• 1983 – Macklemore, American rapper
• 1984 – Paul Dano, American actor
• 1984 – Helen George, English actress
• 1985 – Kajal Aggarwal, Indian actress
• 1985 – Chikashi Masuda, Japanese footballer
• 1986 – Dimitris Sialmas, Greek footballer
• 1986 – Marvin Williams, American basketball player
• 1986 – Marie Dorin Habert, French biathlete
• 1986 – Ragnar Sigurdsson, Icelandic footballer
• 1987 – Beattie Edmondson, English actress
• 1987 – Miho Fukuhara, Japanese singer
• 1990 – Moa Hjelmer, Swedish athlete
• 1992 – Oscar Taveras, Dominican baseball player (d. 2014)
• 1995 – Blake Woodruff, American actor
• 1996 – Larisa Iordache, Romanian gymnast
• 1998 – Atticus Shaffer, American actor

Deaths

Up to 1900

• 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)
• 1542 – Leo Jud, Swiss reformer (b. 1482)
• 1545 – Abraomas Kulvietis, Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
• 1584 – Francis, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
• 1715 – Nicolas Lemery, French chemist (b. 1645)
• 1747 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669)
• 1762 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (b. 1702)
• 1820 – Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist (b. 1743)
• 1850 – Margaret Fuller, American writer and journalist (b. 1810)
• 1865 – Evangelos Zappas, Greek patriot, philanthropist and businessman (b. 1800)
• 1867 – Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (b. 1832)
• 1884 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentine politician and writer (b. 1810)
• 1897 – Charles Boycott, British land owner in Ireland (b. 1832)

1901 – 2000

• 1902 – Albert, King of Saxony (b. 1828)
• 1903 – Herbert Vaughan, English archbishop (b. 1832)
• 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)
• 1940 – Maurice Jaubert, French composer (b. 1900)
• 1953 – Ethel Rosenberg, American convicted of Espionage (b. 1915)
• 1953 – Julius Rosenberg, American convicted of Espionage (b. 1918)
• 1957 – Karl Plagge, German army officer and humanitarian (b. 1897)
• 1968 – James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (b. 1898)
• 1975 – Sam Giancana, American mafioso (b. 1908)
• 1977 – Olave Baden-Powell, founder of the Girl Guides (b. 1899)
• 1979 – Paul Popenoe, American explorer and scholar (b. 1888)
• 1981 – Lotte Reiniger, German illustrator (b. 1899)
• 1984 – Lee Krasner, American painter (b. 1908)
• 1986 – Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
• 1986 – Coluche, French comedian and actor (b. 1944)
• 1993 – William Golding, British writer (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Peter Townsend, British military officer (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Christiane Herzog, First Lady of Germany (b. 1936)

From 2001

• 2003 – Laura Sadler, English actress (b. 1980)
• 2007 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican actor, singer, producer and screenwriter (b. 1919)
• 2007 – El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (b. 1937)
• 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)
• 2010 – Carlos Monsivais, Mexican writer (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Nobert Tiemann, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Slim Whitman, American country music singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Gyula Horn, former Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
• 2013 – James Gandolfini, American actor (b. 1961)
• 2014 – Gerry Goffin, American songwriter (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (b. 1985)
• 2014 – Alan Moller, American meteorologist, storm chaser and photographer (b. 1950)
• 2015 – Phil Austin, American comedian, writer and musician (b. 1941)
• 2015 – Jack Aeby, American photographer (b. 1923)
• 2015 – James Salter, American writer (b. 1925)
• 2015 – Harold Battiste, American jazz and R&B composer (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Fredrik Fasting Torgersen, Norwegian convicted murderer (b. 1934)
• 2015 – Wendell Holmes, American musician (b. 1944)
• 2016 – Götz George, German actor (b. 1938)
• 2016 – Anton Yelchin, Russian-American actor (b. 1989)
• 2017 – Brian Cant, English actor and television presenter (b. 1933)
• 2017 – Ivan Dias, Indian cardinal (b. 1936)
• 2017 – Otto Warmbier, American student (b. 1994)
• 2017 – Tony DiCicco, American soccer player and coach (b. 1948)
• 2017 – Tabaré Hackenbruch, Uruguayan politician (b. 1928)
• 2017 – Mustafa Tlass, Syrian military officer and politician (b. 1932)
• 2018 – Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (b. 1926)
• 2018 – Princess Elisabeth of Denmark (b. 1935)
• 2018 – Koko, American-bred Western lowland gorilla (b. 1971)
• 2018 – Ivan Drach, Ukrainian poet and screenwriter (b. 1936)
• 2018 – Hubert Green, American golfer (b. 1946)
• 2018 – Paul John Marx, French-born Papua New Guinean Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1935)
• 2019 – Peng Xiaolian, Chinese film director (b. 1953)
• 2019 – Rafael de la Sierra, Spanish politician (b. 1948)
• 2019 – Dmytro Tymchuk, Ukrainian politician, military expert and blogger (b. 1972)
• 2019 – Etika, American YouTuber (b. 1990)
• 2020 – Ian Holm, English actor (b. 1931)

Observances

• Day of Independent Hungary
• Juneteenth (United States)
• Labour Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Never Again Day (Uruguay)
• World Sickle Cell Day