On this day in History - Jun 19

• 1269 - King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
• 1301 - Prince Morikuni, was born (d. 1333). 9th Kamakura shogun of Japan
• 1306 - Forces of Earl of Pembroke defeat Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven
• 1566 - King James I of England and VI of Scotland was born (d. 1625)
• 1584 - Francisco de Holanda dies (b. 1517). Portuguese painter
• 1623 - Blaise Pascal was born (d. 1662). French mathematician.
• 1650 - Matthäus Merian - The Elder - dies. Swiss engraver and draftsman.
• 1692 - Rebecca Nurse dies hanged. Accused American witch.
• 1747 - Giovanni Bononcini dies. Italian composer.
• 1747 - Nadir Shah dies killed. Sha shah of Iran (1736–47), sometimes considered the last of the great Asian conquerors.
• 1731 - Joaquim Machado de Castro was born. Portuguese sculptor.
• 1754 - Manuel de Salas y Corbalán was born. Político e escritor chileno.
• 1764 - José Gervasio Artigas was born. Father of Uruguay († 1850).
• 1782 - Felicité Robert de Lamennais was born. Writer.
• 1792 - Gustav Schwab was born (d. 1850). Author.
• 1800 -Juan José Flores y Aramburu was born. President of Ecuador.
• 1820 - Joseph Banks dies. Naturalist and botanist .
• 1834 - Charles Spurgeon was born (d. 1892). Preacher and evangelist.
• 1838 - Friedrich von Hessing was born (d. 1918). Engineer.
• 1846 - First baseball game under recognizable modern rules in Hoboken, New Jersey.
• 1846 - Antonio Abetti was born (d. 1928). Italian astronomer.
• 1856 - Fundação da Cidade de Ribeirão Preto- SP.
• 1860 - Louise of Orange-Nassau marries King Charles XV of Sweden-Norway.
• 1861 - José Protasio Rizal was born. Poet, Filipino national hero.
• 1861 - Douglas Haig was born (d. 1928). British soldier.
• 1865 - Dame May Whitty was born (d. 1948). Entertainer.
• 1865 - Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas are finally informed of their freedom. June 19th is unofficially celebrated as Juneteenth in the United States.
• 1867 - Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire was executed by a firing squad.
• 1870 - After all of the Southern States already being readmitted formally to the Union, the Confederate States of America (a/k/a the CSA) ceases to exist.
• 1871 - Roberto Augusto de Mesquita was born in Santa Cruz das Flores (Azores) (d. 31 Dec 1923). Portuguese poet.
• 1882 - Guenter von Kluge was born (d. 1944). German field marshal.
• 1884 - Juan Bautista Alberdi dies. Argentine politician and writer.
• 1885 - Arrival of the Statue of Liberty.
• 1896 - Wallis Warfield was born (d. 1986). Duchess of Windsor .
• 1897 - Moe Howard was born (d. 1975). Actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges.
• 1891 - Em Portugal, António Enes foi nomeado comissário régio da província de Moçambique.
• 1895 - Criação da "Federación de Fútbol de Chile" is founded
• 1898 - James Joseph Sweeney was born. Roman Catholic prelate
• 1902 - Guy Lombardo was born (d. 1977). Bandleader.
• 1902 - Frederick Augustus Albert dies. King of Saxony.
• 1903 - Lou Gehrig was born (d. 1941). Baseball player.
• 1903 - Wally Hammond was born (d. 1965). Cricketer.
• 1905 - Mildred Natwick was born (d. 1994). Actress.
• 1906 - Decisão sobre a organização do primeiro campeonato de futebol no Paraguai
• 1912 - Establishment of the 8-hour work day in the United States.
• 1914 - Alan Cranston was born (d. 2000). United States politician.
• 1924 - Anneliese Rothenberger was born. Soprano.
• 1926 - Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
• 1928 - Nancy Marchand was born (d. 2000). Actress (The Sopranos).
• 1928 - Barry Took was born. British comedy writer and broadcaster
• 1930 - Gena Rowlands was born. Actress.
• 1932 - Pier Angeli was born (d. 1972). Actress.
• 1933 - Viktor Patsayev was born. Cosmonaut .
• 1934 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was established in the United States. The FCC regulates radio and television broadcasts. (see the Communications Act of 1934.)
• 1937 - J. M. Barrie dies. Author.
• 1937 - Rui Mendes was born. Portuguese actor.
• 1938 - A Italia derrota na final a Hungria por 4 a 2 em Paris e sagra-se Campeã Mundial de Futebol pela segunda vez consecutiva.
• 1938 - Alfredo Baldomir takes on the Presidency of Uruguay.
• 1938 - Wahoo McDaniel was born (d. 2002). American football player, wrestler
• 1939 - Grace Abbott dies. Social worker, activist.
• 1942 - Casamento (1º) de Marilyn Monroe com Jimmy Dougherty
• 1944 - Chico Buarque was born. Brasilien musician.
• 1945 - Eddie Merckx was born. Cyclist.
• 1945 - Aung San Suu Kyi was born (d. 1991). Politician and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1947 - Salman Rushdie was born. Author.
• 1948 - Phylicia Rashad was born. Actress.
• 1948 - Nick Drake was born. Folk guitarist.
• 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. Admission is 50 cents - or 75 cents if the ticket holder wanted to watch the mechanics work.
• 1951 - Ann Wilson was born. Singer.
• 1951 - Nuno da Câmara Pereira was born. Portuguese fadist.
• 1953 - Julius Rosenberg dies. Convicted spy.
• 1953 - Ethel Rosenberg dies. Convicted spy.
• 1954 - Kathleen Turner was born. Actress.
• 1954 - The last regular-service streetcar operated by Twin City Rapid Transit runs in Minneapolis
• 1954 - The animated Bugs Bunny short Devil May Hare debuts in theaters, introducing The Tasmanian Devil.
• 1957 - Anna Lindh was born (d. 2003). Swedish politician and minister of foreign affairs
• 1960 - Luke Morley was born. British guitarist and songwriter.
• 1960 - Al empatar con Olimpia 1 a 1 en Asunción, Peñarol gana la primera Copa Libertadores. En el encuentro de ida, Peñarol se impuso por 1 a 0.
• 1961 - Independência do Kuweit.
• 1962 - Paula Abdul was born. Singer and one of three judges on American Idol
• 1962 - Jeremy Bates was born. Tennis player
• 1963 - Rory Underwood was born. Rugby Union player.
• 1964 - Boris Johnson British politician and journalist.
• 1966 - Ed Wynn dies. Entertainer.
• 1967 - Bjørn Dæhlie was born. Norwegian cross country skier
• 1968 - Alastair Lynch was born. Australian Rules footballer.
• 1968 - James Joseph Sweeney dies. Roman Catholic prelate
• 1968 - F. de Castro Soromenho dies. Mozambican writer.
• 1970 - Quincy Watts was born. American athlete
• 1970 - Signature of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) .
• 1970 - Shock election win for Heath Edward Heath becomes the new British prime minister after a surprise victory for the Conservatives in the general election.
• 1971 - Amavisca was born. Spanish football player (Espanyol)
• 1972 - Brian McBride was born. Football player for USA.
• 1973 - Leticia Spiller was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1975 - Munitis was born. Spanish football player (Deportivo Coruña).
• 1976 - King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Silvia Sommerlath.
• 1977 - Daniel de Oliveira was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Actor brasileiro.
• 1977 - Peter Warrick was born. American football player
• 1977 - Ali Shariati dies. Sociologist
• 1977 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell dies. Chief Girl Guide
• 1978 - Dirk Nowitzki was born. German NBA star
• 1978 - Garfield was born. Comic strip cat he was brought into this world by cartoonist Jim Davis.
• 1978 - First appearance of the comic strip Garfield.
• 1980 - Gunbattle at British embassy in Iraq : Three gunmen who attacked the British embassy in Baghdad are shot dead by Iraqi security forces.
• 1980 - Se firma el Convenio de Roma sobre obligaciones contractuales en la Comunidad Económica Europea.
• 1980 - Amy Merritt was born. 1997 Miss Utah Teen US.
• 1983 - En la final del Campeonato Mundial sub-20 disputado en el estadio Azteca de México, entre Argentina y Brasil, asisten 110 mil espectadores, récord para un partido sub-20. Campeón resulta Brasil al ganar por 1 - 0.
• 1986 - Coluche dies (b. 1944). French comedian.
• 1989 - Wang Weilin dies (supposed) .
• 1992 - Marc Bazin takes on the Presidency of Haiti.
• 1993 - William Golding dies (b. 1911). English novelist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1996 - G. David Schine dies. Investigator and businessman.
• 1996 - Es anunciado en Buenos Aires, Argentina la variante del ajedrez conocida como Ajedrez aleatorio de Fischer.
• 1996 - Em Espanha, a Lei dos Segredos Oficiais foi declarada inconstitucional
• 1999 - Torino is picked as the host city of the 2006 Winter Olympics.
• 2000 - Datapoint, the company that commissioned the Intel 8008 microprocessor, sells its European operations and changes its name to Dynacore.
• 2002 - Paralisação dos controladores de tráfego aéreo em vários países da Europa (França, Portugal, Grécia e Itália).
• 2003 - Mahfoud Nahnah dies. Argelian Muslim leader.
• 2003 - Laura Sadler dies. British television actress.
• 2005 - In the United Kingdom, flash flooding severely affected several North Yorkshire villages and towns, including Thirsk, Helmsley and Hawnby, when the rivers Swale and Rye burst their banks.
• Juneteenth - celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation