This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
06/19/1556 James VI, of Scotland (1567-1625)/James I of England (1603-25) 
06/19/1608 Thomas Fuller, England, literary (History of the Holy War) 
06/19/1613 Christian de Placker, composer 
06/19/1623 Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer (Pascal) 
06/19/1708 Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer 
06/19/1717 Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer 
06/19/1741 Reinier Vinkeles, engraver 
06/19/1749 Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, France, chairman (National Convention) 
06/19/1764 John Barrow, England, founded Royal Geographical Society 
06/19/1764 Jos‚ Gervasio Artigas, general/father of Uruguay 
06/19/1766 Edmund Weber, composer 
06/19/1782 Hugues FR de Lamennais, French priest/writer (L'avenir) 
06/19/1782 John Bray, composer 
06/19/1783 Thomas Sully, US portrait painter (Queen Victoria) 
06/19/1790 John Gibson, British (?) sculptors 
06/19/1810 Ferdinand David, violist/compser (Hohe Schule des Violinspiels) 
06/19/1811 Henry Prince, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 
06/19/1814 Johannes H Weissenbruch, landscape painter 
06/19/1815 John William Glover, composer 
06/19/1834 Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina) 
06/19/1842 Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer 
06/19/1843 Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer 
06/19/1854 Alfredo Catalani, composer 
06/19/1856 Elbert Hubbard, US, editor/publisher/author (Message to Garcia) 
06/19/1858 Charles Haddon George Alexander, [George Samson], British actor 
06/19/1858 Dirk Fock, governor-general of Neth Indies (1921-26) 
06/19/1861 Douglas Haig, British fieldmarshal (Sudan, WW I) 
06/19/1865 May Whitty, Liverpool England, actress (Mrs Minerva, Suspicion) 
06/19/1867 Eduard Jacobs, cabaret artist 
06/19/1868 Heinrich Schenker, [A Niloff], Austrian musicologist (Urlinie) 
06/19/1877 Charles Coburn, Macon Ga, actor (Acad-1943, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

06/19/1878 James M Kilroe, priest of St Mary Star of the Sea, in the Bronx 
06/19/1880 Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung) 
06/19/1885 Stevan Hristic, composer 
06/19/1886 Robert Herberigs, composer 
06/19/1889 Enrico Celio, pres of Switzerland 
06/19/1896 Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, divorcee 
06/19/1897 Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz], comedian (3 Stooges) 
06/19/1898 Paul Muller-Zurich, composer 
06/19/1899 George Calinescu, Romania, literature (Enigma Otilei) 
06/19/1900 Laura Hobson, NYC, TV writer/panelist (I've Got a Secret) 
06/19/1901 Edward Lambert, British diplomat 
06/19/1902 Guy Lombardo, London Ontario Canada, orch leader (Auld Lang Syne) 
06/19/1903 Henry Louis Gehrig, 1st baseman (NY Yankees) 'Iron Horse' 
06/19/1903 Walter R Hammond, British cricket player 
06/19/1904 Balis Dvarionas, composer 
06/19/1905 George Voskovec, Czech, actor (Fred-Nero Wolfe, Peter-Skag) 
06/19/1905 Taneli Kuusisto, composer 
06/19/1908 Mildred Natwick, Balt Md, actress (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon) 
06/19/1908 Quentin N Burdick, (Sen-D-ND, 1960-  ) 
06/19/1909 Edwin Gerschefski, composer 
06/19/1909 Osamu Dazai, Japan, novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human) 
06/19/1912 Jerry Jerome, Bkln NY, saxophonist (Words & Music) 
06/19/1912 Martin Gabel, Phila, TV host (With this Ring) 
06/19/1914 Alan Cranston, (Sen-D-CA, 1969-  ) 
06/19/1914 Harry Lauter, White Plains NY, actor (Waterfront) 
06/19/1914 Lester Flatt, Earl Scrugg's partner (Beverly Hillbillies theme) 
06/19/1914 Morgan Morgan-Giles, British Lt admiral/parliament leader 
06/19/1918 Evelle Jansen Younger, prosecutor of Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan 
06/19/1919 Louis Jourdan, Marselles France, actor (Gigi, Can-Can, Madame Bovary

06/19/1919 Pauline Kael, movie critic (NY Times) 
06/19/1921 Allan Davis, mayor of London 
06/19/1921 Herman Berserik, painter/graphic artist 
06/19/1921 Howell T Heflin, (Sen-D-Alabama, 1979-  ) 
06/19/1922 Aage Neals Bohr, Denmark, physicist/study atomic nucleus (Nobel 1975

06/19/1924 Leo Nomellini, NFL defensive tackle (SF 49ers) 
06/19/1925 Alfred B Nzo, South African sec-gen ANC (1969-  ) 
06/19/1925 Charlie Drake, British comic 
06/19/1927 Karel Kupka, composer 
06/19/1928 Nancy Marchand, Buffalo NY, actress (Beacon Hill, Margaret-Lou Grant

06/19/1928 Raymond Powell, British parliament leader 
06/19/1930 Bryan Kneale, British sculptor 
06/19/1930 Jul Levi, composer 
06/19/1932 Marisa Pavan, actress (John Paul Jones, Solomon & Sheba, Rose Tattoo

06/19/1932 Pier Angeli, Italy (Sodom & Gomorrah, Vintage, Battle of the Bulge) 
06/19/1933 Viktor I Patsayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11) 
06/19/1934 Terence Clark, British diplomat 
06/19/1936 Gena Rowlands, Cambria Wisc, actress (Gloria, Tempest, Brinks Job) 
06/19/1936 Shirley Goodman, Am's R&B-zangeres: Shirley & Lee/Feel so good) 
06/19/1938 Charles Gwathmey, architect (5 Architects) 
06/19/1938 John Sheil, Dutch court justice 
06/19/1939 Peter Duffell, Brits lt-generaal/minister of Defense 
06/19/1941 Marlene Warfield, Queens NY, actress (Victoria-Maude) 
06/19/1942 Elaine 'Spanky' McFarlane, rocker (Spanky & Our Gang-Lazy Day) 
06/19/1942 Jos Brink, Dutch TV host (Op Zoek) 
06/19/1942 Neil Chalmers, director (National History Museum, London) 
06/19/1942 Robert [Bob] W Kasten Jr, (Sen-R-WI, 1981-  ) 
06/19/1943 Malcolm McDowell, actor (Clockwork Orange, Caligula) 
06/19/1945 Tim Hovey, LA Calif, actor (Queen Bee, Toy Tiger, Man Afraid) 
06/19/1945 Tobias Wolff, US writer 
06/19/1947 James T Walsh, (Rep-R-NY) 
06/19/1947 Phylicia Ayers-Allen Rashad, Houston, actress (Clair-Bill Cosby) 
06/19/1947 Salman Rushdie, Pak, novelist (Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses) 
06/19/1949 Kathleen Turner, Springfield Mo, actress (Peggy Sue Got Married) 
06/19/1950 Connie Forslund, San Diego Calif, actress (Shining Season) 
06/19/1951 Ann Wilson, San Diego, singer (Heart-What About Love) 
06/19/1952 Robert Ainsworth, British parliament leader 
06/19/1953 Larry Dunn, [Dunhill], US keyboardist (Earth Wind & Fire) 
06/19/1954 Jim Cooper, (Rep-D-TN, 1983-  ) 
06/19/1954 Michael O'Brien, British parliament leader 
06/19/1959 Mark DeBarge, rocker (DeBarge-Who's Johnny) 
06/19/1962 Ken Tohill, jockey 
06/19/1962 Paula Julie Abdul, Van Nuys Calif, singer/choreographer (Straight Up

06/19/1962 Sid Fenech, jockey 
06/19/1973 Josie Davis, actress (Charles in Charge) 
06/19/1978 Garfield the Cat, animated character 'Big fat hairy deal' 
06/19/1984 Emil Coleman, orchestra leader (Arthur Murray Party) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
06/19/1113 Odo/Odardus van Kamer˜k, French writer/bishop of Kamer˜k, dies 
06/19/1312 Piers Gaveston, earl of Cornwall, beheaded 
06/19/1341 Juliana van Falconieri, Italian saint/Swedish tenor, dies 
06/19/1542 Leo Jud[ae], Swiss pastor/church reformer 
06/19/1554 Sixt[us] Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Judith), dies at 53

06/19/1652 Louis de Geer, Neth/Swedish industrialist/millionaire, dies at 64 
06/19/1730 Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer, dies at 49 
06/19/1759 Charles-Joseph-Balthazar Sohier, composer, dies at 31 
06/19/1762 Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer, dies at 60 
06/19/1787 John Brown, (British?) theologist, dies 
06/19/1794 Richard H Lee, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 62 
06/19/1811 Samuel Chase, US judge (signed Declar of Independence), dies at 70 
06/19/1820 Joseph Banks, English natural historian (Cook/Australia), dies 
06/19/1822 John Bray, composer, dies on 40th birthday 
06/19/1837 Aleksander A Bestoezjev-Marlinsky, Russian writer, dies in battle 
06/19/1840 John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrial/orangist, dies at 50 
06/19/1867 Maximilian F J, Austrian arch duke/Emperor of Mexico, dies 
06/19/1902 John E E Dalberg baron van Acton, English historian, dies at 69 
06/19/1915 Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev, composer, dies at 58 
06/19/1921 Ram¢n L¢pez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota), dies at 33 
06/19/1922 Johannes C Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer, dies at 71 
06/19/1932 Solomon Tshkisho Platje, South Africans writer, dies 
06/19/1937 James M Barrie, Scottish writer (Dear Brutus/Peter Pan), dies 
06/19/1939 Grace Abbott, social worker (US Children Bureau), dies at 60 
06/19/1940 Aur‚lien FM Lugn‚-Poe, French actor (Pirouette), dies at 70 
06/19/1940 Maurice Jaubert, composer, dies at 40 
06/19/1944 Han Yong-woon, Zen teacher, dies in Seoul County, Korea at 65 
06/19/1947 Willem H Fly, typographer/co-founder (SDAP), dies at 84 
06/19/1953 Ethel Rosenberg, executed at Sing Sing, in 5 tries 
06/19/1953 Julius Rosenberg, executed at Sing Sing, in 3 tries 
06/19/1956 Lulu [Luise] Strauss und Torney, German poet/writer, dies 
06/19/1962 Frank Borzage, US, director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), dies at 69 
06/19/1965 James B Collip, Canada bio-chemistry/physiology (insulin), dies 
06/19/1966 Ed Wynn, comedian (Ed Wynn Show), dies at 86 
06/19/1966 Marjan Kozina, composer, dies at 59 
06/19/1973 Roger Delgado, actor (Adventures of Sir Francis Drake), dies at 53 
06/19/1982 John Cheever, US writer (Wapshot Chronicle, Pulitzer), dies at 70 
06/19/1984 Lee Krasner Pollock, US painter, dies at 75 
06/19/1984 Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel, composer, dies at 88 
06/19/1986 Coluche, [Michel Colucci], French comic, dies at 41 
06/19/1986 Len Bias, 1st pick of Celtics, suffers fatal cocaine-induced seizure

06/19/1986 Murray P Haydon, artificial heart recipient, dies in Louisville at 5

06/19/1988 Zdenek Blazek, composer, dies at 83 
06/19/1989 Hy Gardner, newspaper columnist, dies at 80 
06/19/1989 Isidore Feinstein Stone, author (I F Stone's Weekly), dies at 81 
06/19/1991 Jean Arthur [Gladys Greene], US actress (Shane), dies 
06/19/1992 Kitty McKane Godfree, Tennis champ (Wimbeldon 1924, 26), dies at 96 
06/19/1993 William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983) dies at 81 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
06/19/ 240 -BC- Eratosthenes estimates circumference of Earth 
06/19/ 987 Louis IV, crowned king of France 
06/19/1205 Pope Innocent III firess Adolf I as archbishop of Cologne 
06/19/1269 King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame

06/19/1369 Duke Philip the Stoute marries Margaretha van Male 
06/19/1464 French King Louis XI forms postal service 
06/19/1572 Garrison under Adrian van Swieten occupy Oudewater 
06/19/1586 English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island NC 
06/19/1754 Albany Congress held by 7 British colonies & Iroquois indians 
06/19/1770 General Church of New Jerusalem established 
06/19/1778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge 
06/19/1825 Gioacchino Rossini's 'Il viaggio a Reims', premieres 
06/19/1835 New Orleans gives US govt Jackson Square to be used as a mint 
06/19/1846 1st baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1 
06/19/1850 Swedish/Norwegian crown prince Charles weds Dutch princess Wilhelmin

06/19/1861 Anaheim Post Office established 
06/19/1861 Francis Pierpont is elected provisional governor of West Virginia 
06/19/1862 Slavery outlawed in US territories 
06/19/1863 Battle at Middleburg Virginia (100+ casualties) 
06/19/1864 CSS 'Alabama' sunk by USS 'Kearsarge' off Cherbourg, France 
06/19/1864 Skirmish at Pine Knob Georgia 
06/19/1865 All slaves in Texas freed 
06/19/1865 Siege of Richmond, VA 
06/19/1867 J Gilpatrick on Ruthless wins 1st Belmont Stakes (Jerome Park NY) 
06/19/1868 Maj Gen E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC 
06/19/1875 Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio 
06/19/1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure 'Man with the Twisted Lip' 
06/19/1910 1st airship in service 'Germany' 
06/19/1910 Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash) 
06/19/1912 Tennessee University opened as Tennessee A & L State College 
06/19/1921 census in Great-Britain 
06/19/1922 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:28.2) 
06/19/1923 Baldwin-Mellon-agreement concerning Britain entering the war 
06/19/1924 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 1500m (3:52.6) 
06/19/1930 C Jackson & H E Wood discovers asteroid #1595 Tanga 
06/19/1931 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct 
06/19/1932 1st concert given in SF's Stern Grove 
06/19/1932 Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China PR 
06/19/1933 Austrian government-Dollfuss bans nazi-organizations 
06/19/1934 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created 
06/19/1936 Dutch Premier Colijn denies relation with German call-girl 
06/19/1936 German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis 
06/19/1937 Franco-troops conquer Bilbao Basques 
06/19/1938 'Olympian Flyer' express train crashes in Montana, killing 47 
06/19/1938 Italy beats Hungary 4-1 in soccer's 3rd World Cup at Paris 
06/19/1940 'Brenda Starr,' 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago 
06/19/1940 German 7th Armour division under gen-maj Garbage occupies Cherbourg 
06/19/1940 G”ring orders seizure of Dutch horses, car, buses & ships 
06/19/1941 US president Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act 
06/19/1942 Pitts Pirate Paul Waner gets hit #3,000 
06/19/1943 NFL's Phila Eagles & Pitts Steelers merge, (disolves on Dec 5) 
06/19/1943 Race riot in Beaumont Texas 
06/19/1944 -20] Sea battle of Philippines Sea 
06/19/1944 300 Japanese aircrafts shot down 
06/19/1944 French troops free Elba 
06/19/1944 Heavy air raid on US fleet at Guam 'Turkey Shoot' 
06/19/1944 Japanese troops conquer Changsha China 
06/19/1946 1st TV sports spectacular-Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn 
06/19/1947 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc Ca 
06/19/1948 USSR blocks access road to West Berlin 
06/19/1950 A G Wilson discovers asteroid #1980 Tezcatlipoca 
06/19/1952 'I've Got A Secret' debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host 
06/19/1952 Bkln Dodger Carl Erskine no-hits Chicago Cubs, 5-0 
06/19/1953 Albert W Dent, elected president of Natl Health Council 
06/19/1953 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg convicting of spying for USSR 
06/19/1953 WCSC TV channel 5 in Charleston, SC (CBS) begins broadcasting 
06/19/1953 WTPA (now WHTM) TV channel 27 in Harrisburg, PA (ABC) 1st broadcast 
06/19/1954 Ed Furgol wins US Open golf tournament 
06/19/1955 Jack Fleck wins US Open golf tournament 
06/19/1955 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100 
06/19/1955 Phils beat Cubs 1-0 in 15, ties longest shut out in Phillies history

06/19/1959 Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Sec of Comm 
06/19/1960 Loretta Lynn records 'Honky Tonk Girl' 
06/19/1961 Kuwait declares independence from UK 
06/19/1961 NY Yankee Roger Maris hits his 25th of 61 HRs 
06/19/1963 2 Russian space missions return to Earth 
06/19/1963 Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen 
06/19/1963 Greek cabinet of Pipinolis forms 
06/19/1963 Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth 
06/19/1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27 
06/19/1965 Algerian coup under colonel Houari Boum‚dienne, pres Ben Bella flees

06/19/1965 KYW-AM in Cleveland Ohio returns call letters to Philadelphia 
06/19/1967 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army 
06/19/1967 Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD 
06/19/1968 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign

06/19/1969 State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances 
06/19/1970 A Nikolayev & V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9 
06/19/1970 Conservatives win British parliamentary election 
06/19/1970 Jim Bouton's controversial 'Ball Four' is published 
06/19/1971 Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Ga, racial disturbance

06/19/1972 40,000 pilots strike against naval officer 
06/19/1973 Pete Rose & Willie Davis both get career hit # 2,000 
06/19/1974 KC Royal Steve Busby 2nd no-hitter beats Milwaukee Brewers, 2-0 
06/19/1974 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) suspends constitution 
06/19/1976 King Charles XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Dutchess Silvia Sommerlath

06/19/1976 US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth

06/19/1977 Hubert Green wins US Open golf tournament 
06/19/1977 Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cen bishop John Neumann 1st US male saint 
06/19/1977 Red Sox set 3 game record of 16 HRs, all against Yanks 
06/19/1979 Mali's constitution goes into effect 
06/19/1980 Battle between police & demonstrators in Capetown, 34 killed 
06/19/1981 Boeing commercial Chinook 2-rotor helicopter is certified 
06/19/1981 European Space Agency's Ariane carries 2 satellites into orbit 
06/19/1981 Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, S Africa 
06/19/1981 India's APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched 
06/19/1983 'Octopussy' premieres in US 
06/19/1984 1st live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger (Nightline) 
06/19/1985 Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place 
06/19/1986 Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup 
06/19/1987 ETA bomb attack on Barcelona, 15 killed 
06/19/1987 Geffen records sign their 1st artist (Donna Summer) 
06/19/1987 Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creatio

06/19/1987 Wee Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak ends 
06/19/1988 Coup in Haiti 
06/19/1988 Danny Spitz, heavy metal artist (Anthrax), weds Valerie 
06/19/1991 2 of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie 
06/19/1991 Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar surrenders to police 
06/19/1992 Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa is shot twice in NYC 
06/19/1992 Inkhata-blood bath in Boipatong South-Africa 
06/19/1992 NY Yankees 1st game in Baltimore Oriole's Camden Yards 
06/19/1994 Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia 
  
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