June 19



Events

Up to 1950 
 936  Louis IV of France is crowned as the West Frankish King in the city of Laon.
 1179  Battle of Kalskinnet in takes place outside Nidaros (present-day Trondheim). Earl Erling Skakke is killed, as the battle changes the progress of the civil wars.
 1269  Louis IX of France orders that all Jews in public in France without their yellow badge should be fined 10 livres of silver.
 1306  The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Robert the Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
 1586  English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
 1770  Emmanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ is his work True Christian Religion.
 1815  A day after the Battle of Waterloo, the Battle of Wavre is fought, as the last battle of the Napoleonic Wars.
 1816  Battle of Seven Oaks between the Northwest Company and the Hudson's Bay Company near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
 1821  The Coronation of King George IV of the United Kingdom takes place in London. The expensive (costs a lot of money) coronation banquet is the last-to-date at the crowning of a British monarch. 
 1846  The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules in Hoboken, New Jersey.
 1850  Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries the future King Charles XIII of Sweden.
 1862  US Congress prohibits Slavery in US territories.
 1865  Slaves in Galveston, Texas, are informed of their freedom, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Texas and thirteen other US states celebrate this as "Juneteenth".
 1867  Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico is executed by a firing squad.
 1875  The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
 1910  The first Father's Day is observed in Spokane, Washington. In some Western countries, including the US and UK, it is still observed on the third Sunday in June.
 1911  Norwegian football club Molde FK is founded.
 1913  The Natives' Land Act in South Africa is introduced.
 1936  Max Schmeling defeats Joe Louis to win the World Heavyweight Boxing title.
 1938  In France, the Italy national football team wins the FIFA World Cup for a second time, defeating the Hungary national football team 4-2.
 1944  World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

1951  2010 
 1953  After being convicted of espionage, Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg are executed in New York City.
 1961  Kuwait declares independence from the UK.
 1964  The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved in the US.
 1965  In Algeria, President Ahmed Ben Bella is removed in a military coup, and replaced by Houari Boumedienne.
 1970  The Patent Convention Treaty is signed.
 1976  King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Silvia Sommerlath.
 1978  Jim Davis' comic strip about a lazy and overeating cat named Garfield is published for the first time.
 1982  The body of "God's banker" Roberto Calvi is found hanging at the Blackfriars Bridge in London.
 1987  Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its worst terrorist attacks, on a supermarket in Barcelona.
 1990  The current international law defending indigenous peoples, the Indigenous Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
 1991  In the Croatian War of Independence, the Battle of Dubrovnik starts.
 1991  Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
 1992  In Heavyweight Boxing, Evander Holyfield becomes world champion, defeating Larry Holmes.
 1999  The computer game Counter-strike is released.
 1999  In Seoul, South Korea, it is announced that Turin, Italy, is to host the 2006 Winter Olympics.
 2002  Steve Fossett starts his round-the-world journey in a hot-air balloon.
 2006  Prime Ministers of several Northern European countries participate in a ceremonial "laying of the first stone" at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway.
 2007  The Al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad kills 78 people.
 2009  Mass riots involving thousands of civilians and police officers break out in Shishou, China, after the unexplained death of a local chief.
 2010  Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden marries Daniel Westling.

From 2011 
 2012  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asks for asylum in Ecuador at the country's embassy in London.
 2013  At 10pm, Singapore's 3-hour PSI reading set an all-time high record of 321 in the Hazardous range, surpassing the previous record of 226 during the 1997 haze. This is the first time that Singapore's PSI has entered the Hazardous range. 
 2014  King Felipe VI of Spain ascends to the throne after the abdication of his father, King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
 2016  Virginia Raggi, of the Five Star Movement, is elected as the first female Mayor of Rome.
 2017  2017 Finsbury Park attack: A van is driven into a crowd of Muslim worshippers in London's Finsbury Park area, causing several injuries; the attacker is arrested by police.
 2018  The United States pulls out of the United Nations Human Rights council.
 2018  Canada decides to legalise the recreational use of cannabis.
 2019  Four men are named as suspects in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Eastern Ukraine in 2014, in which 298 people were killed.

Births

Up to 1900 
 1301  Prince Morikuni, Japanese Shogun (d. 1333)
 1566  King James VI of Scotland (James I of England) (d. 1625)
 1595  Guru Hargobind, Indian religious figure (d. 1644)
 1606  James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
 1623  Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1662)
 1701  François Rebel, French composer (d. 1775)
 1717  Johann Stamitz, Czech composer and violinist (d. 1757)
 1731  Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (d. 1822)
 1764  José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan national hero (d. 1850)
 1771  Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
 1790  John Gibson, Welsh sculptor (d. 1866)
 1792  Gustav Schwab, German writer (d. 1850)
 1795  James Braid, Scottish surgeon (d. 1860)
 1815  Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
 1816  William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist (d. 1899)
 1842  Carl Zeller, Austrian jurist, politician and composer (d. 1898)
 1846  Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928)
 1850  David Jayne Hill, American diplomat and historian (d. 1932)
 1854  Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer (d. 1893)
 1861  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, British field marshal and soldier (d. 1928)
 1861  Jose Rizal, Filipino national hero (d. 1896)
 1865  May Whitty, English actress (d. 1948)
 1871  Alajor Szokolyi, Hungarian hurdler, jumper and physician (d. 1932)
 1874  Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (d. 1941)
 1877  Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)
 1878  Yakov Yurovsky, Russian Bolshevik, chief executioner of the Tsarist family (d. 1938)
 1880  Jóhann Sigurjónsson, Icelandic playwright and poet (d. 1919)
 1884  Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French artist and writer (d. 1974)
 1891  John Heartfield, German painter and photomontage artist (d. 1968)
 1893  Madeleine Astor, American survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1940)
 1896  Wallis Simpson, American, Duchess of Windsor through marriage to the abdicated Edward VIII (d. 1986)
 1897  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist (d. 1967)
 1897  Moe Howard, American comedian (d. 1975)
 1900  Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (d. 1986)

1901  1950 
 1901  Piero Gobetti, Italian journalist, intellectual and activist (d. 1926)
 1902  Guy Lombardo, Canadian musician (d. 1979)
 1903  Hans Litten, German jurist (d. 1938)
 1903  Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
 1903  Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)
 1905  Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
 1906  Ernst Boris Chain, German biochemist, won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)
 1907  Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1985)
 1909  Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (d. 1948)
 1909  Midori Naka, Japanese actress (d. 1945)
 1910  Paul Flory, American chemist (d. 1985)
 1910  Sydney Allard, English racing driver (d. 1966)
 1914  Alan Cranston, American politician (d. 2000)
 1914  Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1979)
 1915  Julius Schwartz, American publisher, writer and editor (d. 2004)
 1917  Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean politician (d. 1999)
 1919  Pauline Kael, American writer and critic (d. 2001)
 1920  Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (d. 2002)
 1921  Doris Sands Johnson, Bahamian teacher, suffragette and politician (d. 1983)
 1921  Louis Jourdan, French actor (d. 2015)
 1922  Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (d. 2009)
 1923  Andrés Rodríguez Pedotti, President of Paraguay (d. 1997)
 1926  Anneliese Rothenberger, German soprano (d. 2010)
 1928  Tommy DeVito, American singer and guitarist
 1930  Gena Rowlands, American actress
 1931  Sudarshan Agarwal, Indian politician (d. 2019)
 1932  Pier Angeli, Italian actress (d. 1971)
 1932  Marisa Pavan, Italian actress
 1933  Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
 1934  Gérard Latortue, Haitian politician
 1934  Terence Clark, English diplomat
 1936  Zacharias Heinesen, Faroese painter
 1937  André Glucksmann, French philosopher (d. 2015)
 1938  Jean-Claude Labrecque, Canadian director and cinematographer
 1938  Karl Moik, Austrian entertainer (d. 2015)
 1939  Al Wilson, American singer (d. 2008)
 1940  Paul Shane, English actor (d. 2013)
 1941  Vaclav Klaus, former President of the Czech Republic
 1944  Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer-songwriter and poet
 1945  Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician and pro-Democracy campaigner, Nobel Peace Prize winner
 1945  Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian-Serb politician, on trial for war crimes
 1946  Michael Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme, English diplomat
 1947  Salman Rushdie, Indian-born writer
 1948  Nick Drake, English musician and singer (d. 1974)
 1948  Phylicia Rashad, American actress
 1949  Hassan Shehata, Egyptian football manager
 1950  Ann Wilson, American singer

1951  1975 
 1951  Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
 1951  Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist (al-Qaeda)
 1952  Bob Ainsworth, British politician
 1953  Larry Dunn, American musician (Earth, Wind & Fire)
 1954  Kathleen Turner, American actress
 1955  Don McCarthy, British businessman (d. 2018)
 1957  Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, Foreign minister (d. 2003)
 1958  Sergei Makarov, Soviet ice hockey player
 1959  Anne Hidalgo, French politician, Mayor of Paris
 1959  Christian Wulff, former President of Germany
 1959  Mark DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and trumpeter
 1959  Sophie Grigson, English cookery writer and chef
 1961  Bidhya Devi Bhandari, 2nd President of Nepal
 1962  Masanao Sasaki, Japanese footballer
 1962  Paula Abdul, American dancer and singer; American Idol judge
 1962  Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
 1964  Boris Johnson, English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 1965  Sadie Frost, English actress
 1967  Bjorn Daehlie, Norwegian skier
 1967  Mia Sara, American actress
 1969  Yoshiaki Sato, Japanese footballer
 1970  Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
 1970  Quincy Watts, American athlete
 1970  Brian Welch, American musician
 1972  Jean Dujardin, French actor
 1972  Brian McBride, American soccer player
 1972  Robin Tunney, American actress
 1972  Ilya Markov, Russian athlete
 1972  Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress
 1972  Dagur B. Eggertsson, Icelandic politician, Mayor of Reykjavik
 1973  Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer and actress
 1973  Yasuhito Yabuta, Japanese baseball player
 1973  Nadiya, French singer
 1975  Hugh Dancy, British actor

From 1976 
 1977  Rebecca Loos, Dutch model
 1977  Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (d. 2007)
 1977  Sacha Modolo, Italian road-racing cyclist
 1978  Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
 1978  Zoe Saldana, American actress
 1978  Maria Maestro, Argentine actress and singer
 1979  José Kléberson, Brazilian footballer
 1980  Lauren Lee Smith, Canadian actress
 1980  Robbie Neilson, Scottish footballer
 1982  Chris Vermeulen, Australian motorcycle racer
 1982  Alexander Frolov, Russian ice hockey player
 1983  Mark Selby, British snooker player
 1983  Macklemore, American rapper
 1984  Paul Dano, American actor
 1984  Helen George, English actress
 1985  Kajal Aggarwal, Indian actress
 1985  Chikashi Masuda, Japanese footballer
 1986  Dimitris Sialmas, Greek footballer
 1986  Marvin Williams, American basketball player
 1986  Marie Dorin Habert, French biathlete
 1986  Ragnar Sigurdsson, Icelandic footballer
 1987  Beattie Edmondson, English actress
 1987  Miho Fukuhara, Japanese singer
 1990  Moa Hjelmer, Swedish athlete
 1992  Oscar Taveras, Dominican baseball player (d. 2014)
 1995  Blake Woodruff, American actor
 1996  Larisa Iordache, Romanian gymnast
 1998  Atticus Shaffer, American actor

Deaths

Up to 1900 
 1027  Romuald, Italian saint (b. 951)
 1179  Earl Erling Skakke, Norwegian nobleman
 1205  Roman the Great, Russian prince (b. 1151)
 1282  Eleanor de Montfort, wife of Llywelyn the Last (b. 1252)
 1542  Leo Jud, Swiss reformer (b. 1482)
 1545  Abraomas Kulvietis, Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
 1584  Francis, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
 1715  Nicolas Lemery, French chemist (b. 1645)
 1747  Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669)
 1762  Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (b. 1702)
 1820  Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist (b. 1743)
 1850  Margaret Fuller, American writer and journalist (b. 1810)
 1865  Evangelos Zappas, Greek patriot, philanthropist and businessman (b. 1800)
 1867  Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (b. 1832)
 1884  Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentine politician and writer (b. 1810)
 1897  Charles Boycott, British land owner in Ireland (b. 1832)

1901  2000 
 1902  Albert, King of Saxony (b. 1828)
 1903  Herbert Vaughan, English archbishop (b. 1832)
 1922  Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1874)
 1937  J. M. Barrie, Scottish writer (b. 1860)
 1939  Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
 1940  Maurice Jaubert, French composer (b. 1900)
 1953  Ethel Rosenberg, American convicted of Espionage (b. 1915)
 1953  Julius Rosenberg, American convicted of Espionage (b. 1918)
 1957  Karl Plagge, German army officer and humanitarian (b. 1897)
 1968  James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (b. 1898)
 1975  Sam Giancana, American mafioso (b. 1908)
 1977  Olave Baden-Powell, founder of the Girl Guides (b. 1899)
 1979  Paul Popenoe, American explorer and scholar (b. 1888)
 1981  Lotte Reiniger, German illustrator (b. 1899)
 1984  Lee Krasner, American painter (b. 1908)
 1986  Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
 1986  Coluche, French comedian and actor (b. 1944)
 1993  William Golding, British writer (b. 1911)
 1995  Peter Townsend, British military officer (b. 1914)
 2000  Christiane Herzog, First Lady of Germany (b. 1936)

From 2001 
 2003  Laura Sadler, English actress (b. 1980)
 2007  Antonio Aguilar, Mexican actor, singer, producer and screenwriter (b. 1919)
 2007  El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (b. 1937)
 2009  Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest man at the time of his death (b. 1895)
 2010  Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
 2010  Carlos Monsivais, Mexican writer (b. 1938)
 2012  Nobert Tiemann, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)
 2013  Slim Whitman, American country music singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1923)
 2013  Gyula Horn, former Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
 2013  James Gandolfini, American actor (b. 1961)
 2014  Gerry Goffin, American songwriter (b. 1939)
 2014  Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (b. 1985)
 2014  Alan Moller, American meteorologist, storm chaser and photographer (b. 1950)
 2015  Phil Austin, American comedian, writer and musician (b. 1941)
 2015  Jack Aeby, American photographer (b. 1923)
 2015  James Salter, American writer (b. 1925)
 2015  Harold Battiste, American jazz and R&B composer (b. 1931)
 2015  Fredrik Fasting Torgersen, Norwegian convicted murderer (b. 1934)
 2015  Wendell Holmes, American musician (b. 1944)
 2016  Götz George, German actor (b. 1938)
 2016  Anton Yelchin, Russian-American actor (b. 1989)
 2017  Brian Cant, English actor and television presenter (b. 1933)
 2017  Ivan Dias, Indian cardinal (b. 1936)
 2017  Otto Warmbier, American student (b. 1994)
 2017  Tony DiCicco, American soccer player and coach (b. 1948)
 2017  Tabaré Hackenbruch, Uruguayan politician (b. 1928)
 2017  Mustafa Tlass, Syrian military officer and politician (b. 1932)
 2018  Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (b. 1926)
 2018  Princess Elisabeth of Denmark (b. 1935)
 2018  Koko, American-bred Western lowland gorilla (b. 1971)
 2018  Ivan Drach, Ukrainian poet and screenwriter (b. 1936)
 2018  Hubert Green, American golfer (b. 1946)
 2018  Paul John Marx, French-born Papua New Guinean Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1935)
 2019  Peng Xiaolian, Chinese film director (b. 1953)
 2019  Rafael de la Sierra, Spanish politician (b. 1948)
 2019  Dmytro Tymchuk, Ukrainian politician, military expert and blogger (b. 1972)
 2019  Etika, American YouTuber (b. 1990)
 2020  Ian Holm, English actor (b. 1931)

Observances 
 Day of Independent Hungary
 Juneteenth (United States)
 Labour Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
 Never Again Day (Uruguay)
 World Sickle Cell Day

References 

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