On this day in History - Jun 19

• 1027 – Romuald dies (b. 0951). Italian saint.
• 1157 - Bertrand de Blanquefort, 6th Master of the Templars, is captured by the Moslems at the Siege of Bayas.
• 1179 - The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
• 1205 – Roman the Great dies (b. 1151). Grand Prince of Kiev.
• 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.
• 1312 - Piers Gaveston dies. French favorite of Edward II of England.
• 1507 - Annibale Caro was born (d. 1566). Italian poet.
• 1542 - Leo Jud dies (b. 1482). Swiss reformer.
• 1545 - Abraomas Kulvietis dies (b. 1509). Lithuanian reformer.
• 1566 - King James I of England and VI of Scotland was born (d. 1625).
• 1584 - Francisco de Holanda dies (b. 1517). Portuguese painter.
• 1584 - François, Duke of Anjou dies (b. 1555).
• 1595 - Guru Har Gobind was born (d. 1644). 6th sikh guru.
• 1606 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton was born (d. 1649). Scottish statesman.
• 1608 - Alberico Gentili dies (b. 1551). Italian jurist.
• 1623 - Blaise Pascal was born (d. 1662). French mathematician and philosopher.
• 1633 - Philipp van Limborch was born (d. 1712). Dutch Protestant theologian.
• 1650 - Matthäus Merian - The Elder - dies (b. 1593). Swiss engraver and draftsman.
• 1692 - Rebecca Nurse dies hanged. Accused American witch.
• 1717 - Johann Stamitz was born (d. 1757). Czech violinist and composer.
• 1731 - Joaquim Machado de Castro was born. Portuguese sculptor.
• 1747 – Alessandro Marcello dies (b. 1669). Italian composer.
• 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.
• 1747 - Alessandro Marcello dies (b. 1669). Italian composer.
• 1754 - New World: Benjamin Franklin introduces Albany Plan of Union, based on the Iroquois Confederacy. The Plan is rejected, but its essential elements adopted a quarter century later as the US Constitution.
• 1754 - Manuel de Salas y Corbalán was born. Chilean politician and writer.
• 1762 - Johann Ernst Eberlin dies (b. 1702). German composer.
• 1764 - José Gervasio Artigas was born († 1850). Father of Uruguay.
  
• 1768 - Benjamin Tasker dies (b. 1690). Provincial Governor of Maryland.
• 1770 - Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
• 1771 - Joseph Gergonne was born (d. 1859). French mathematician.
• 1782 - Felicité Robert de Lamennais was born. Writer.
• 1786 – Nathanael Greene dies (b. 1742).American Revolutionary general.
• 1792 - Gustav Schwab was born (d. 1850). German author.
• 1800 - Juan José Flores y Aramburu was born. President of Ecuador.
• 1805 - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée dies (b.1724). French painter.
• 1807 - Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
• 1815 - Cornelius Krieghoff was born (d. 1872). Canadian painter.
• 1816 - Battle of Seven Oaks between Northwest Company and Hudson Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• 1816 - William Henry Webb was born (d. 1899). American industrialist.
• 1820 - Joseph Banks dies (b. 1743). English naturalist and botanist.
• 1821 - Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
• 1834 - Charles Spurgeon was born (d. 1892). English preacher and evangelist.
• 1838 - Friedrich von Hessing was born (d. 1918). Engineer.
• 1844 - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire dies (b. 1772). French naturalist.
• 1846 - The first baseball game under recognizable modern rules in Hoboken, New Jersey.
• 1846 - Antonio Abetti was born (d. 1928). Italian astronomer.
• 1850 - Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
• 1850 - David Jayne Hill was born (d. 1932). American diplomat.
• 1851 - Billy Midwinter was born (d. 1890). Australian cricketer.
• 1854 - Alfredo Catalani was born (d. 1893). Italian musician.
  
• 1856 - Fundação da Cidade de Ribeirão Preto - SP.
• 1858 - Sam Walter Foss was born (d. 1911). American librarian and poet.
• 1861 - Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig was born (d. 1928). British soldier.


• 1861 - José Protasio Rizal was born (d. 1896). Filipino poet and national hero. A militant reformist, publication of his novel El Filibusterismo led to his being tried and executed by the military in 1896. His death was the catalyst that precipitated the Philippine Revolution.
• 1862 - U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying the Dred Scott Case.
• 1865 - Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
• 1865 - Dame May Whitty was born (d. 1948). English entertainer.
• 1867 - Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire, overthrown on May 15, is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
• 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.
• 1874 - Peder Oluf Pedersen was born (d. 1941). Danish engineer.
• 1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
• 1877 - Charles Coburn was born (d. 1961). American actor.
• 1880 - W. A. Dwiggins was born in Martinsville, Ohio. American designer of a number of typefaces — including Electra —.
• 1882 - Guenter von Kluge was born (d. 1944). German field marshal.
• 1884 - Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes was born (d. 1974). French Dadaist artist and writer.
• 1884 - Juan Bautista Alberdi dies. Argentine politician and writer.
• 1885 - Arrival of the Statue of Liberty.
• 1888 - Korea: US marines begin fighting in Seoul, Korea.
• 1891 - Em Portugal, António Enes foi nomeado comissário régio da província de Moçambique.
• 1891 - Helmut Herzfeld (John Heartfield) was born in Berlin. Anti-fascist collage artist.
• 1893 - Lizzie Borden acquitted of murdering her parents.
• 1895 - Criação da "Federación de Fútbol de Chile" is founded.
• 1896 - Wallis Simpson was born (d. 1986). Duchess of Windsor.
• 1897 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood was born (d. 1967). English chemist, Nobel laureate.
• 1897 - Moe Howard was born (d. 1975). American actor.
• 1898 - James Joseph Sweeney was born. American Catholic prelate.
• 1900 -Laura Z. Hobson was born. American novelist.
• 1902 - Guy Lombardo was born (d. 1977). Canadian bandleader.
• 1902 - Frederick Augustus Albert dies. King of Saxony.
• 1903 - Hans Litten was born (d. 1938). German jurist.
• 1903 - Lou Gehrig was born (d. 1941). American baseball player.
• 1903 - Wally Hammond was born (d. 1965). English cricketer.
• 1903 – Cardinal Herbert Vaughan dies (b. 1832). Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster.
• 1905 - US: Nickelodeon movie theatre opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• 1905 - Mildred Natwick was born (d. 1994). American actress.
• 1906 - Decisão sobre a organização do primeiro campeonato de futebol no Paraguai.
• 1906 - Ernst Boris Chain was born (d. 1979). German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate.
• 1906 - Walter Rauff was born (d. 1984). German colonel.
• 1907 - Clarence Wiseman was born (d. 1985). 10th General of The Salvation Army.
• 1909 - Osamu Dazai was born (d. 1948). Japanese novelist, literary voice of his generation after WWII. Joined the communist movement briefly. Friends with writer Masuji Ibuse. The tone of his postwar works reflect emotional crisis and suicidal thoughts. In 1948 Dazai drowned himself and left behind the unfinished novel Goodbye.
• 1910 - The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
• 1910 – Abe Fortas was born (d. 1982). Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  
• 1910 - Paul Flory was born (d. 1985). American chemist, Nobel laureate.
• 1911 - Federales & Maderistas retake Mexicali, BC from Magonista (anarchist) rebels.
• 1912 - The eight-hour work day is established in the United States.
• 1912 - Don Gutteridge was born. American baseball player.
• 1912 – Virginia MacWatters was born (d. 2005). American soprano.
• 1914 - A radiotelegraphic link is established between Germany and the United States and German Emperor Wilhelm II and US President Woodrow Wilson exchange telegrams to mark the event.
• 1914 - Alan Cranston was born (d. 2000). United States politician.
• 1914 - Anthony Bloom was born. Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church.
• 1914 - Lester Flatt was born (d. 1979). American musician.
• 1914 - Portugal: Luísa Adão was born (d. 1999). Portuguese nurse and anarchist. Life-long companion (from the age of 16) of Acácio Tomás de Aquino, a militant anarcho-trade unionist.
• 1915 - Julius Schwartz was born. American editor and agent.
• 1917 - Joshua Nkomo was born (d. 1999). Vice President of Zimbabwe.
• 1918 - Battle of Cantigny, France between Germany and U.S..
• 1919 - Louis Jourdan was born. French actor.
• 1919 - Pauline Kael was born (d. 2001). American movie critic.
• 1921 - Ramón López Velarde dies (b. 1888). Mexican poet.
• 1922 - Aage Niels Bohr was born. Danish physicist, Nobel laureate.
• 1924 - Anneliese Rothenberger was born. Soprano.
• 1924 - Leo Nomellini was born (d. 2000). American football player.
• 1925 - Charlie Drake was born. British actor, writer and singer.
• 1926 - England: Peacemakers Pilgrimage ends in Hyde Park, London.
• 1926 - Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.
• 1928 – Barry Took was born (d. 2002). English comedy writer.
• 1928 - Nancy Marchand was born (d. 2000). American actress (The Sopranos).
• 1928 - Tommy DeVito was born. American musician and singer (The Four Seasons).
• 1929 - Thelma Barlow was born. English former Coronation Street actress.
• 1930 - Gena Rowlands was born. American actress.
• 1932 - Marisa Pavan was born. Italian-born actress.
• 1932 - Pier Angeli was born (d. 1972). Italian-born actress.
• 1933 - Viktor Patsayev was born. Soviet cosmonaut.
• 1934 - A Cool Million by Nathanael West is published. Features the dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin.
• 1934 - The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
• 1936 – Marisa Galvany was born. American soprano.
• 1936 - Shirley Goodman was born (d. 2005). American singer.
• 1936 - Tommy DeVito was born. American musician and singer.
• 1937 - US: The Women's Day Massacre: When the cops in Youngstown, pursuing the American Dream, couldn't find any union leaders to beat up, they went after women picketers sitting in chairs supporting the strike. They beat 'em good & left a few bodies in their wake.
• 1937 - J. M. Barrie dies (b. 1860). Scottish author.
• 1937 - Rui Mendes was born. Portuguese actor.
• 1937 – J. M. Barrie dies (b. 1860). Scottish author.
• 1938 - Canada: Bloody Sunday: The RCMP & Vancouver police attack strikers with tear gas & clubs; Police battle unemployed workers at post office in Vancouver, brutally ejecting them. Michael John Thompson Rare Books thinks NATO is out to get him.
• 1938 - Italy defeats Hungary 4-2 during the 1938 FIFA World Cup to become the first national team to defend a title. / 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 – Ian Smith was born. Australian actor.
• 1938 - Wahoo McDaniel was born (d. 2002). American football player.
• 1939 - Lou Gehrig was diagnosed with "Lou Gehrig's disease" on his 36th birthday.
• 1939 - Al Wilson was born (d. 2008). American singer.
  
• 1939 - Grace Abbott dies. American social worker, activist.
• 1940 - Shirley Muldowney was born. Racecar driver.
• 1941 – Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
• 1941 - Václav Klaus was born. Czech politician and President.
• 1942 - Marriage Marilyn Monroe / Jimmy Dougherty.
• 1942 - Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane was born. Musician (Spanky and Our Gang).
• 1942 – Jos Brink was born (d. 2007). Dutch actor.
  
• 1943 - Race riots occur in Beaumont, Texas.
• 1944 – World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
• 1944 - Chico Buarque was born. Brazilian musician.
• 1945 - Aung San Suu Kyi was born. Burmese politician who was recipient of Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1945 - Radovan Karadžić was born. Serbian-Bosnian politician.
• 1945 - Tobias Wolff was born. American writer (This Boy's Life).
• 1947 - Salman Rushdie was born. Indian author.
• 1948 - Nick Drake was born (d. 1974). English musician.
• 1948 - Phylicia Rashad was born. American actress.
• 1949 - NASCAR sanctions the first "strictly stock" race, which will evolve into the modern Nextel Cup. Jim Roper wins the event.
• 1949 – Syed Zafarul Hasan dies (b. 1885). Prominent Muslim philosopher.
• 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.
• 1950 - Ann Wilson was born. American musician.
• 1951 - Nuno da Câmara Pereira was born. Portuguese fadist.
• 1951 - Ayman al-Zawahiri was born. Egyptian terrorist.
• 1951 - Francesco Moser was born. Italian cyclist.
• 1951 – Angelos Sikelianos dies (b. 1884). Greek poet.
• 1952 - Swede Sausage was born. Guitarist and songwriter.
• 1952 - Heinrich Schlusnus dies (b. 1888). German baritone.
• 1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are electrocuted at Sing Sing, in New York, for alleged sale of atomic secrets to Russians.
• 1953 - Larry Dunn was born. American musician (Earth, Wind and Fire).
• 1953 - Sidney Magal was born. Brazilian singer and actor.
• 1954 - Kathleen Turner was born. American 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.
• 1956 - Doug Stone was born. American singer.
• 1956 - Thomas J. Watson dies (b. 1874). American businessman (IBM).
• 1957 - Anna Lindh was born (d. 2003). Swedish politician and minister of foreign affairs.
• 1957 - Quim Barreiros was born. Portuguese musician.
• 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 - Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1962 - Paula Abdul was born. American singer and one of three judges on American Idol.
• 1962 - Jeremy Bates was born. English tennis player.
• 1963 - Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space returns to Earth.
• 1963 - Rory Underwood was born. English rugby Union player.
• 1964 - Boris Johnson was born. British politician and journalist.
• 1964 - Brian Vander Ark was born. American musician (Verve Pipe).
• 1965 - Sadie Frost was born. English actress.
• 1966 - Joichi Ito was born. Japanese entrepreneur.
• 1966 - Ed Wynn dies (b. 1886). American actor.
• 1967 - Bjørn Dæhlie was born. Norwegian cross country skier.
• 1967 - Mia Sara was born. American actress.
• 1968 - Brazil: Violent protests in Rio de Janeiro against alienating culture, confrontations with police result in 22 injuries.
• 1968 - Alastair Lynch was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1968 - F. de Castro Soromenho dies. Mozambican writer.
• 1968 – James Joseph Sweeney dies (b. 1898). American Catholic prelate.
• 1969 - Lara Spencer was born. American TV personality.
• 1970 - The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is signed.
• 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.
• 1970 – Antonis Remos was born. Greek singer.
• 1970 – Brian 'Head' Welch was born. American guitarist (Korn) and vocalist (Head).
• 1970 – Quincy Watts was born. American athlete.
• 1970 – Rahul Gandhi was born. Indian politician.
• 1971 - Amavisca was born. Spanish football player (Espanyol).
• 1972 - Brian McBride was born. American soccer player.
• 1972 – Dennis Lyxzén was born. Swedish musician (Refused).
  1972 - Poppy Montgomery was born. Australian actress.
• 1972 – Robin Tunney was born. American actress.
• 1973 - Jahine Arnold was born. American football player.
• 1973 - Leticia Spiller was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1973 – Yasuhiko Yabuta was born. Japanese baseball player.
• 1974 - Doug Mientkiewicz was born. American baseball player.
• 1975 - Anthony Parker was born. American basketball player.
• 1975 – Hugh Dancy was born. English actor.
• 1975 - Munitis was born. Spanish football player (Deportivo Coruña).
• 1975 - Sam Giancana dies (b. 1908). American gangster.
• 1976 - King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Silvia Sommerlath.
• 1976 - Bryan Hughes was born. English footballer.
• 1976 – Patrick Surtain was born. American football player.
• 1977 - Daniel de Oliveira was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Brazilian actor.
• 1977 - Peter Warrick was born. American football player.
• 1977 - Veronika Vařeková was born. Czech supermodel.
• 1977 - Ali Shariati dies (b. 1933). Iranian sociologist.
• 1977 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell dies. English Chief Girl Guide.
• 1978 - The Garfield comic strip debuts and grows to over $1 billion in revenue within over 110 countries. This day is considered Garfield's birthday.
• 1978 – Claudio Vargas was born. Dominican baseball player.
• 1978 - Dirk Nowitzki was born. German basketball player.
• 1978 – Mía Maestro was born. Argentine actress.
• 1978 - Tyson Dux was born. Canadian professional wrestler.
• 1978 – Zoe Saldana was born. American actress.
• 1979 - John Duddy was born. Northern Irish boxer.
• 1979 – John Ford was born. American software engineer.
• 1979 - Quentin Jammer was born. American football player.
• 1979 - Paul Popenoe dies (b. 1888). American eugenicist.
• 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.
• 1980 - Adel Abdulaziz was born. Emiratie football player.
• 1980 - Dante Robinson was born. American football player.
• 1980 – Lauren Lee Smith was born. Canadian actress.
• 1982 - In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.
• 1982 – The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
• 1982 – Alexander Frolov was born. Russian hockey player.
• 1982 – Chris Vermeulen was born. Australian motorcycle racer.
• 1982 – David Pollack was born. American football player.
• 1982 – Joe Cheng was born. Taiwanese actor.
• 1982 – May Andersen was born. Danish supermodel.
• 1982 – Joe Cheng was born. Taiwanese actor.
• 1982 – Trevor Hamilton was born. Northern Irish murderer.
• 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.
• 1983 - Mark Selby was born. British snooker player.
• 1984 - Paul Dano was born. American actor.
• 1984 – Lee Krasner dies (b. 1908). American painter.
• 1985 - Ben Andrews was born. American gay porn star.
• 1986 - Marvin Williams was born. American basketball player.
• 1986 - Coluche dies (b. 1944). French comedian.
• 1986 - Len Bias dies (b. 1963). American basketball player.
• 1987 - The ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
• 1987 – Rashard Mendenhall was born. American football player.
• 1987 - Teresa Cormack dies (b. 1981). New Zealand murder victim.
• 1988 - Haiti: Civilian government overthrown by U.S.-backed military coup.
• 1988 - Fernand Seguin dies (b. 1922). French Canadian biologist.
• 1988 - Gladys Spellman dies (b. 1918). U.S. Congresswoman.
• 1989 - Wang Weilin dies (supposed).
• 1991 – Michael McShae was born. American actor.
• 1991 – Pontus Ekhem was born. Swedish hockey player.
• 1991 – Jean Arthur dies (b. 1900). American actress.
• 1992 - Marc Bazin takes on the Presidency of Haiti.
• 1992 - Mariah Stanley was born. American singer.
• 1993 - William Golding dies (b. 1911). English novelist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1995 - Blake Woodruff was born. American actor.
• 1995 - Peter Townsend dies (b. 1914). RAF officer.
• 1996 - G. David Schine dies. American 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.
• 1996 – G. David Schine dies (b. 1927). American businessman.
• 1997 - Bobby Helms dies (b. 1933). American singer.
• 1997 – Olga Georges-Picot dies (b. 1944). French actress.
• 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.
• 2001 - John Heyer dies (b. 1916). Australian documentary filmmaker.
• 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 (b. 1980). British television actress.
• 2004 - Oscar Bento Ribas dies (b. 1909). Angolan writer and ethnologist.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2007 - El Fary was born (d. 1937). Spanish singer.
• 2007 - Terry Hoeppner was born (d. 1947). American football coach.
• 2007 - Antonio Aguilar was born (d. 1919). Mexican singer and actor.
• 2007 – Ze'ev Schiff dies (b. 1932). Israeli journalist.
• 2008 – Barun Sengupta dies (b. 1934). Bengali journalist.
• 2008 – Bennie Swain dies (b. 1930). American basketball player.
• United States Juneteenth - celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation (state holydays in 31 states, originated in Texas).
• Germanic Neopaganism: Ásatrú Alliance Founding Day.
• Swedenborgianism: New Church Day.
• Palawan: Feast of Forest.
• Surigao del Sur: Surigao del Sur Day.
• Trinidad and Tobago: Labour Day.