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

Unknown - The Rossetta Stone one is found and destroyed.

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.
1767 - Jean Chastel killed the Beast of Gévaudan.
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 - Slavery is banned in U.S territories.
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.
1893 - Lizzie Borden is a phychopath.
1912 - The eight-hour work day is established in the United States.
1934 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is established. The FCC regulates radio and television broadcasts. (see the Communications Act of 1934.)
1943 - Race riots occur in Beaumont, Texas, United States.
1944 - The Battle of the Philippine Sea took place, where the United States Navy sank 3 Japanese aircraft carriers and shot down almost 400 aircraft in what was called The Marianas Turkey Shoot.
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, United States. Admission wss 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, United States.
1954 - The animated Bugs Bunny short Devil May Hare debuts in theaters, introducing The Tasmanian Devil.
1961 - Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
1967 - Bjorn Daehlie, Norwegian cross-country skier, and gold medal Olympian, is born.
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.
1999 - Turin, Italy, is picked as the host city of the 2006 Winter Olympics.
1999 - Author Stephen King is struck by a minivan in a hit-and-run accident.
2000 - Datapoint, the company that commissioned the Intel 8008 microprocessor, sells its European operations and changes its name to Dynacore.