19 Juin

The **19t o Juin** is the 170t day o the year (171t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 195 days ti come.

## Events

*1306 &ndash; Scots Wars o Unthirldom: Battle o Meffin.
*1867 &ndash; Emperor Maximilian I o Mexico is executit.
*1910 &ndash; The first Faither's Day is held in the state o Washington in the Unitit States.
*1938 &ndash; Italy win the FIFA Warld Cup in Fraunce, defeatin Hungary for their seicont Warld Cup teetle win.
*1944 &ndash; Warld War II: Battle o the Philippine Sea.
*1961 &ndash; Kuwait declares unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
*1970 &ndash; Edward Heath becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick efter the Conservatives won the previous day's general election.
*1976 &ndash; Carl XVI Gustaf o Swaden mairies Silvia Sommerlath.
*1978 &ndash; The Garfield comic strip debuts.
*1991 &ndash; The Soviet Union's occupation o Hungary ends.
*2005 &ndash; UEFA Weemen's Euro 2005 in Ingland: Germany defeat Norawa 3-1 in the final.
*2006 &ndash; The first stane o the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is laid.
*2010 &ndash; Victoria, Croun Princess o Swaden mairies Daniel Westling.
*2012 &ndash; WikiLeaks foonder Julian Assange asks for asylum at the Ecuadorean embassy in Lunnon.
*2014 &ndash; Felipe VI o Spain becomes King.
*2017 &ndash; A man is killt, an several fowk injured, in a vehicle-rammin attack on Muslim worshippers in the Finsbury Pairk aurie o North Lunnon.
*2018 &ndash; The Unitit States decides tae pull oot o the Unitit Naitions Human Richts Cooncil.
*2018 &ndash; Canadae decides tae legalise cannabis for recreational use.
*2019 &ndash; Four men are chairged wi the murthers o the 298 fowk on baird Malaysia Airlines Flicht 17, which wis shot doon ower Eastren Ukraine on 17 Julie 2014.
*2019 &ndash; 2019 FIFA Weemen's Warld Cup: Scotland are knockit oot o the toornament in the group stage efter losin a 3-0 lead tae draw 3-3 wi Argentinae, wi the end pairt o the gemme dominatit bi refereein an VAR controversy.
*2020 &ndash; COVID-19 pandemic: The Unitit Kinrick doongrades its alert level, frae Level 4 tae Level 3.
*2020 &ndash; COVID-19 pandemic: Brazil becomes the seicont kintra, efter the Unitit States, tae record ower a million cases o COVID-19.
*2020 &ndash; Response tae the Killin o George Floyd: Mass observances o Juinteent, a halyday commemoratin the abolition o sclavery, tak place across the Unitit States.

## Births

*1566 &ndash; James I o Ingland/James VI, Keeng o Scots (d. 1625)
*1623 &ndash; Blaise Pascal, French mathematician an physicist (d. 1662)
*1764 &ndash; José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan general (d. 1850)
*1861 &ndash; Douglas Haig, 1st Yerl Haig, Scots militar officer (d. 1928)
*1910 &ndash; Paul Flory, American chemist (d. 1985)
*1922 &ndash; Aage Bohr, Dens nuclear physicist (d. 2009)
*1945 &ndash; Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politeecian, Nobel Prize laureate
*1947 &ndash; Salman Rushdie, Indian author
*1954 &ndash; Kathleen Turner, American actress
*1959 &ndash; Christian Wulff, umwhile Preses o Germany
*1962 &ndash; Paula Abdul, American sangster, actress an choreographer
*1964 &ndash; Boris Johnson, Inglis jurnalist an politeecian, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick
*1972 &ndash; Jean Dujardin, French actor
*1978 &ndash; Zoe Saldana, American actress
*1983 &ndash; Macklemore, American rapper an sangster
*1983 &ndash; Mark Selby, Inglis snooker player

## Daiths
*1867 &ndash; Emperor Maximilian I o Mexico (b. 1832)
*1937 &ndash; J. M. Barrie, Scots writer (b. 1860)
*1977 &ndash; Ali Shariati, Iranie sociologist (b. 1933)
*2013 &ndash; Gyula Horn, Prime meenister o Hungary (b. 1932)
*2013 &ndash; James Gandolfini, American actor (b. 1961)
*2016 &ndash; Anton Yelchin, Roushie-American actor (b. 1989)
*2019 &ndash; Etika, American YouTuber (b. 1990)
*2019 &ndash; Norman Stone, Scots historian an author (b. 1941)

## Halidays
* Day o Unthirl Hungary
* Never Again Day (Uruguay)
* Juinteent (Unitit States)