Historical Events on June 19

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• 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 war
• 1205 Pope Innocent III fires Adolf I as archbishop of Cologne
• 1269 King Louis IX of France decrees all Jews must wear a yellow badge in public or be fined 10 livres of silver
• 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 and England sign treaty of Antwerp
• 1572 Garrison under Adrian van Swieten occupy Oudewater
• 1586 English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, North Carolina
• 1588 Spanish Armada heavily destroyed in storm at Coruna
• 1603 Merga Bien arrested for witchcraft in Fulda, Germany, part of Fulda witch trials. She and about 250 people later burned at the stake.

• 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
• 1790 French Revolution: The National Assembly issues a decree abolishing the titles, orders and other privileges of the French nobility
• 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
• 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

• 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 Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas
• 1867 1st Belmont: J Gilpatrick aboard Ruthless wins in 3:05
• 1868 Major general E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia, South Carolina
• 1875 Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio in San Francisco.
• 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"
• 1894 28th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Henry of Navarre wins in 1:56.5


• 1897 Wee Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak ends
• 1897 11th U.S. Women's National Championship: Juliette Atkinson beats Elisabeth Moore (6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 3-6, 6-3)

• 1908 British Open Golf, Prestwick GC: Scotsman James Braid wins his 4th Championship by 8 strokes from Tom Ball
• 1910 1st airship in service "Germany"
• 1910 Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Washington)
• 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 British Open Golf, Prestwick GC: Harry Vardon of Jersey wins a record 6th Open Championship, 3 strokes ahead of defending champion J.H. Taylor
• 1917 The British Royal Family, which has had strong German ties since George I, renounces its German names and titles and adopts the name of Windsor
• 1919 Opposed to dismemberment of Turkey by the Allies, Mustafa Kemal declares his Turkish Nationalist Congress, headquartered in Ankara, independent of Constantinople
• 1921 Census held in Great Britain
• 1921 Turks and Christians of Palestine sign a friendship treaty against Jews

• 1923 Comic Strip "Moon Mullins" debuts
• 1924 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 1500m (3:52.6)
• 1926 DeFord Bailey is 1st African American to perform on Nashville's "Grand Ole Opry"
• 1931 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven, Connecticut
• 1932 1st concert given in San Francisco'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 Joe McCarthy is named to manage AL All-Stars, rather than high-strung Mickey Cochrane, who is very close to a nervous breakdown

• 1938 "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47
• 1938 FIFA World Cup Final: Luigi Colausig & Silvio Piola each score 2 goals as Italy beats Hungary 4-1 in Paris, France
• 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

• 1941 Romania orders Jewish evacuation of Darabani

• 1942 Paul Waner is 7th to get 3,000 baseball hits
• 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, California
• 1948 Panama and Costa Rica recognize Israel
• 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, South Carolina (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 San Francisco

• 1955 Phils beat Cubs 1-0 in 15, ties longest shut out in Phillies history

• 1959 Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Secetary of Commerce

• 1960 1st Copa Libertadores Final, Asunción: Luis Cubilla scores 83' equaliser for Peñarol of Uruguay for 1-1 draw against Olimpia (Paraguay); win 2-1 on aggregate after taking 1st-leg 1-0 in Montevideo
• 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 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

• 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

• 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 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 Georgia due to racial disturbance
• 1972 -29] Tropical storm Agnes upgraded to a hurricane, makes landfall in Panama City (would kill 128)
• 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 "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" stage production first opens in London

• 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 US Open Golf, Southern Hills CC: Hubert Green shoots 2-under 278 to beat Lou Graham by 1 stroke
• 1977 Indians fire manager Frank Robinson & replace him with Jeff Torborg
• 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 performances

• 1979 In NYC 36,211 show up to witness return of Billy Martin as manager of the New York Yankees
• 1979 Mali's constitution goes into effect
• 1980 Battle between police and 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

• 1984 1st live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger (Nightline)

• 1987 ETA bomb attack in Barcelona, 15 killed


• 1987 Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation
• 1988 Namphy takes control of Haitian government
• 1988 Shirley Furlong wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
• 1988 World's then 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 Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of Oklahoma's football team
• 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 NY Yankee Steve Howe records his 1st major league save since 1987

• 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

• 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 performances
• 1994 "She Loves Me" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC after 294 performances
• 1994 "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" closes at Cort NYC after 72 performances
• 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

• 1997 "Forever Tango!" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC

• 2000 54th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Indiana Pacers, 4 games to 2

• 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.
• 2006 Stanley Cup: first time winners Carolina Hurricanes defeat Edmonton Oilers 4-3

• 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

• 2015 Pixar's animated film "Inside Out" is released with voices by Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Bill Hader and Mindy Kaling
• 2015 The right-wing Venstre block wins the 2015 Danish general election

• 2016 116th US Golf Open: Dustin Johnson wins with a one-under-par 69 by three shots, controversially penalised 1 stroke at Oakmont, Pennsylvania
• 2016 NBA Finals: Cleveland Cavaliers win their first title defeating Golden State Warriors 4–3 - 1st team to overcome 3–1 deficit
• 2017 First full genetic study of cats published in "Nature Ecology and Evolution", reveals domesticated 9,000 years ago, descended from one species (African wildcat)

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