This Day in History for 19th June

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 193

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 wars.
1205 - Pope Innocent III fires Adolf I as archbishop of Cologne
1269 - King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame
1286 - Rabbenu Mir of Rothenbur imprisoned in fortress of Ensisheim
1306 - The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
1464 - French King Louis XI forms postal service
1502 - Emperor Maximilian I & England sign treaty of Antwerp
1572 - Garrison under Adrian van Swieten occupy Oudewater
1586 - English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island NC
1588 - Spanish Armada heavily destroyed in storm at Coruna
1621 - Battle at Dragetsani: Turkish army beats Greece
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 7 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
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, Canada.
1821 - Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
1825 - Gioacchino Rossini's "Il viaggio a Reims," premieres
British Prime Minister Robert Peel 1829 - Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies)
1835 - New Orleans gives US government Jackson Square to be used as a mint
1846 - 1st baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1
1848 - Elizabeth Stanton & Lucretia Mott open 1st women's rights convention
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 - Siege of Richmond, VA
1865 - Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas
1867 - 1st Belmont: J Gilpatrick aboard Ruthless wins in 3:05
1867 - Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
1868 - Maj Gen E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC
1875 - Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio
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"
1893 - Lizzie Bordon acquitted
1894 - 28th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Henry of Navarre wins in 1:56.5
1897 - Wee Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak ends
1910 - 1st airship in service "Germany"
1910 - Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash)
1912 - Tennessee University opened as Tennessee A & L State College
1914 - 54th British Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 306 at Prestwick Club
1917 - After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles & surnames, they take the name Windsor
1921 - Census in Great-Britain
1921 - Turk & Christian of Palestine sign a friendship treaty against Jews
1922 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:28.2)
1923 - "Moon Mullins," Comic Strip, debuts
1923 - Baldwin-Mellon-agreement concerning Britain entering the war
1924 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 1500m (3:52.6)
1926 - DeFord Bailey is 1st black to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry
1931 - 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct
1932 - 1st concert given in SF's Stern Grove
1932 - Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China PR
1933 - Austrian government-Dollfuss bans nazi-organizations
1934 - Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created
1936 - Dutch Premier Colijn denies relation with German call-girl
1936 - German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis
1936 - Joe McCarthy is named to manage AL All-Stars, rather than high-strung Mickey Cochrane, who is very close to a nervous breakdown
1937 - Franco-troops conquer Bilbao Basques
1938 - "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47
1938 - Italy beats Hungary 4-1 in soccer's 3rd World Cup at Paris
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
1940 - "Brenda Starr," 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago
1940 - German 7th Armour division under gen-maj Rommel occupies Cherbourg
1940 - Goering orders seizure of Dutch horses, car, buses & ships
1941 - Cheerios Cereal invents an O-shaped cereal
1941 - Romania orders Jews to evacuate Darabani
32nd US President Franklin Roosevelt 1941 - US president Franklin Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act
1942 - Paul Waner, is 7th to get 3,000 baseball hits
1943 - "Shiek Of Arahy" Spike Jones & City Slickers peaks at #19
1943 - NFL's Philadelphia Eagles & Pittsburgh Steelers merge, (dissolves on Dec 5)
1943 - Race riot in Beaumont Texas
1944 - Two day Battle of Philippines Sea begins
1944 - 300 Japanese aircrafts shot down
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 Battle of the Philippine Sea.
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 Ca
1948 - Panama & Costa Rica recognize Israel
1948 - USSR blocks access road to West Berlin
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 Natl Health Council
1953 - WCSC TV channel 5 in Charleston, SC (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 SF
1955 - Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100
1955 - Phils beat Cubs 1-0 in 15, ties longest shut out in Phillies history

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 239

1301 - Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (d. 1333)
1507 - Annibale Caro, Italian poet (d. 1566)
1566 - James I Stuart, king of Scotland (James VI)/England (1567/1603-25)
1595 - Wladyslaw IV Vasa, king of Poland (1632-48)
1606 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
1608 - Thomas Fuller, England, literary (History of the Holy War)
1613 - Christian de Placker, composer
1623 - Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer (Pascal)
1633 - Philippus van Limborch, remonstrants theologist/vicar
1708 - Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer
1717 - Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer
1741 - Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/art collector
1749 - Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, France, chairman (National Convention)
1764 - John Barrow, England, founded Royal Geographical Society
1764 - Jose Gervasio Artigas, general/father of Uruguay
1766 - Edmund Weber, composer
1771 - Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
1782 - Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer (L'avenir)
1782 - John Bray, composer
King of Great Britain James I Stuart (1566) 1783 - Thomas Sully, US portrait painter (Queen Victoria)
1790 - John Gibson, British (?) sculptor
1792 - Gustav Schwab, writer
1810 - Ferdinand David, violist/compser (Hohe Schule des Violinspiels)
1811 - Henry Prince, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1814 - Johannes H Weissenbruch, landscape painter
1815 - John William Glover, composer
1815 - Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
1816 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist (d. 1899)
1834 - Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina)
1834 - Charles Spurgeon, English preacher (d. 1892)
1842 - Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer
1843 - Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer
1846 - Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928)
1850 - David Jayne Hill, American diplomat (d. 1932)
1851 - Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (d. 1890)
1854 - Alfredo Catalani, composer
1856 - Elbert Hubbard, US, editor/publisher/author (Message to Garcia)
1858 - Charles Haddon George Alexander, [George Samson], British actor
1858 - Dirk Fock, governor-general of Neth Indies (1921-26)
1861 - Douglas Haig, British fieldmarshal (Sudan, WW I)
1861 - Jose Protasio Rizal, Philippine optician/author/nationalist
1865 - Alfred Hugenberg, German RC pres-dir of Krupp/media magnate
1865 - May Whitty, Liverpool England, actress (Mrs Minerva, Suspicion)
1867 - Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist
1867 - Frank Iredale, cricketer (Australian batsman 1894-99)
1868 - Heinrich Schenker, [A Niloff], Austrian musicologist (Urlinie)
1874 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer (d. 1941)
1877 - Charles Coburn, Macon Ga, actor (Acad-1943, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
1878 - James M Kilroe, priest of St Mary Star of the Sea, in the Bronx
1880 - Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung)
1884 - Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French Dadaist artist and writer (d. 1974)
1885 - Stevan Hristic, composer
1886 - Duchess of Windsor, American divorcee and wife of Edward VIII (abdicated)
1886 - Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer/writer (Hiawatha's Song)
1889 - Enrico Celio, president (Switzerland)
1890 - Barbara Everest, London England, actress (Fatal Witness, Inquest)
1893 - Adriaan F Dussenbroek, Dutch family dr/co-founder (Union Natl Arubano)
Duchess of Windsor Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson (1896) 1896 - Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, divorcee
1897 - Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz], Bkln NY, actor and comedian (The 3 Stooges)
1898 - Paul Muller-Zurich, composer
1898 - James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (d. 1968)
1899 - George Calinescu, Romania, literature (Enigma Otilei)
1900 - Laura Hobson, NYC, TV writer/panelist (I've Got a Secret)
1901 - Edward Lambert, British diplomat
1902 - Guy Lombardo, London Ontario Canada, orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne)
1903 - Walter Hammond, cricketer (one of the greatest of English batsman)
1903 - [Henry] Lou[is] Gehrig, "Iron Horse", 1st baseman for NY Yankees (d. 1941)
1903 - Hans Litten, German jurist (d. 1938)
1904 - Balis Dvarionas, composer
1905 - George Voskovec, Czech, actor (Fred-Nero Wolfe, Peter-Skag)
1905 - Taneli Kuusisto, composer
1905 - Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
Comedian Moe Howard (1897) 1906 - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
1906 - Walter Rauff, German colonel (d. 1984)
1907 - Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1985)
1908 - Mildred Natwick, Balt Md, actress (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
1908 - Quentin N Burdick, (Sen-D-ND, 1960-91)
1909 - Edwin Gerschefski, composer
1909 - Osamu Dazai, Japan, novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human)
1910 - Frederick Harry Baines, painter
1912 - Jerry Jerome, Bkln NY, saxophonist (Words & Music)
1912 - Martin Gabel, Phila, TV host (With this Ring)
1912 - Don Gutteridge, American baseball player
1912 - Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (d. 2005)
1914 - Alan Cranston, (Sen-D-CA, 1969- )
1914 - Harry Lauter, White Plains NY, actor (Waterfront)
1914 - Morgan Morgan-Giles, Brits Lt admiral/MP
1914 - Lester Raymond Flatt, TN, bluegrass (Earl-Ballad of Jed Clampett)
1914 - Anthony Bloom, Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 2003)
1915 - Julius Schwartz, American editor and agent (d. 2004)
1916 - Pat Buttram, actor (Mr Haney-Green Acres)
1916 - George Pravda, Prague, Austria-Hungary, actor (Thunderball, Firefox), (d. 1985)
1917 - Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwan minister (ZAPUA)
1918 - Evelle Jansen Younger, prosecutor (Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan)
1919 - Louis Jourdan, Marseilles France, actor (Gigi, Can-Can, Madame Bovary)
1919 - Pauline Kael, movie critic (NY Times, For Keeps)
1921 - Allan Davis, (mayor-London)
1921 - Herman Berserik, Dutch painter/graphic artist
1921 - Howell T Heflin, (Sen-D-Alabama, 1979- )
1921 - Rosalyn Yalow, famed award winning medical physicist

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 10 of 10

1369 - Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy marries Margaret 111 Countess of Flanders
1850 - Swedish/Norwegian crown prince Charles weds Dutch princess Wilhelmina
1942 - Actress Marilyn Monroe (16) marries first husband James Dougherty (21), a policeman
1976 - King Charles XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Silvia Renate Sommerlath in Stockholm Cathedral, Ist Swedish reigning monarch to marry since 1797
1988 - Danny Spitz, heavy metal artist (Anthrax), weds Valerie
1993 - Mandy Smith (Bill Wyman's ex-wife) weds Pat van den Hauwe
1999 - Earl of Wessex Prince Edward (35) weds Sophie Rhys-Jones (34) at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle
2006 - "Lost" actress Emilie de Ravin (24) weds actor Josh Janowicz (24) in Melbourne, Australia
2006 - "Savage Garden" pop singer Darren Hayes (34) weds animator Richard Cullen in London
2010 - Crown Princess Victoria heir apparent of HM Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, weds Daniel Westling at Stockholm Cathedral

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 2 of 2

2009 - "Malcolm in the Middle" actress Jane Kaczmarek (53) divorces actor Bradley Whitford (49) after 16 years of marriage
2010 - Backup dancer Dean Sheremet (29) divorces Grammy Award-winning singer LeAnn Rimes (27) after nearly eight years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 96 of 96

1113 - Odo/Odardus van Kamerijk, French writer/bishop of Kamerijk, dies
1312 - Piers Gaveston, earl of Cornwall, beheaded
1341 - Juliana van Falconieri, Italian saint/Swedish tenor, dies
1542 - Leo Jud[ae], Swiss pastor/church reformer
1545 - Abraomas Kulvietis Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
1554 - Sixt[us] Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Judith), dies at 53
1584 - François, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
1608 - Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)
1650 - Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (b. 1593)
1652 - Louis de Geer, Neth/Swedish industrialist/millionaire, dies at 64
1747 - Alessandro Marcello, composer, dies at 77
1747 - Nadir, shah of Persia (1736-47), murdered
1759 - Charles-Joseph-Balthazar Sohier, composer, dies at 31
1762 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer, dies at 60
1768 - Benjamin Tasker, Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
1786 - Nathanael Greene, American Revolutionary general (b. 1742)
1794 - Richard H Lee, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 62
1805 - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (b. 1724)
1811 - Samuel Chase, US judge (signed Declar of Independence), dies at 70
1820 - Joseph Banks, English natural historian (Cook/Australia), dies
1822 - John Bray, composer, dies on 40th birthday
1837 - Aleksander A Bestoezjev-Marlinsky, Russian writer, dies in battle
1840 - John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrial/orangist, dies at 50
1844 - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (b. 1772)
1864 - George Lincoln Prescott, US Union brig-gen, dies of injuries
1867 - Maximilian F J, Austrian arch duke/Emperor of Mexico, dies
1902 - John E E Dalberg baron van Acton, English historian, dies at 69
1915 - Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev, Russian composer (Oresteia), dies at 58
1921 - Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota), dies at 33
1922 - Johannes C Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer, dies at 71
1932 - Solomon Tshkisho Platje, South African writer, dies
1936 - John Sharpe, cricketer (1-eyed fast bowler for England 1891-92), dies
1937 - James M Barrie, Scottish writer (Dear Brutus/Peter Pan), dies
1939 - Grace Abbott, social worker (US Children Bureau), dies at 60
1940 - Maurice Jaubert, composer, dies at 40
1944 - Bill Bradley, cricketer (bowled for England in two Tests 1899), dies
1944 - Han Yong-woon, Zen teacher, dies in Seoul County, Korea at 65
1947 - Willem H Fly, typographer/co-founder (SDAP), dies at 84
1949 - Syed Zafarul Hasan, Prominent Muslim philosopher (b. 1885)
1951 - Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet (b. 1884)
1952 - Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (b. 1888)
1953 - Ethel Rosenberg, executed at Sing Sing, in 5 tries
1953 - Julius Rosenberg, NYC, 1st US civilian executed for espionage at 37
1956 - Lulu [Luise] Strauss und Torney, German poet/writer, dies at 82
1956 - Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (IBM) (b. 1874)
1962 - Frank Borzage, US, director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), dies at 69
1965 - James B Collip, Canadian bio-chemist (insulin), dies at 72
1966 - Ed Wynn, comedian (Ed Wynn Show), dies at 79
1966 - Marjan Kozina, composer, dies at 59
1968 - James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (b. 1898)
1973 - Roger Delgado, actor (Adv's of Sir Francis Drake, Dr Who), dies at 55
1975 - Sam Giancana, American gangster (b. 1908)
1977 - Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist (b. 1933)
1977 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (b. 1889)
1979 - Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (b. 1888)
1982 - John Cheever, US writer (Wapshot Chronicle, Pulitzer), dies at 70
1984 - Lee Krasner Pollock, US painter, dies at 75
1984 - Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel, composer, dies at 88
1986 - Coluche, [Michel Colucci], French comic, dies at 41
1986 - Len Bias, 1st pick of Celtics, suffers fatal cocaine-induced seizure
1986 - Murray P Haydon, artificial heart recipient, dies in Louisville at 59
1987 - Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (b. 1981)
1988 - Zdenek Blazek, composer, dies at 83
1988 - Fernand Seguin, Canadian biologist (b. 1922)
1988 - Gladys Spellman, American. Congresswoman (b. 1918)
1989 - Hy Gardner, newspaper columnist, dies at 80
1989 - Isidore Feinstein Stone, author (I F Stone's Weekly), dies at 81
1991 - Jean Arthur [Gladys Greene], US actress (Shane), dies at 90
1992 - Kitty McKane Godfree, Tennis champ (Wimbledon 1924, 26), dies at 96
Nobel Laureate and Novelist William Golding (1993) 1993 - William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983), dies at 81
1994 - Christopher Clarkson, test Pilot, dies at 92
1994 - Jocelyn Olaf Hambro, financier, dies at 75
1994 - Ronald Batty, bookseller, dies at 82
1995 - Al Hansen, artist, dies at 67
1995 - Murray Dickie, opera singer/director, dies at 71
1995 - Richard Bernard Pape, POW escaper/writer, dies at 79
1995 - Peter Townsend, RAF officer (b. 1914)
1996 - Alan Ande Anderson, opera director, dies at 78
1996 - David Schine, businessman, dies at 70
1996 - Harold William Woolhouse, plant scientist, dies at 63
1996 - Henry Ralph Carr, soldier, dies at 82
1996 - Vivian Ellis, composer, dies at 91
1997 - Bobby Helms, singer (Jingle Bell Rock), dies at 63
2001 - John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker (b. 1916)
2003 - Laura Sadler, English actress (b. 1980)
2007 - El Fary, Spanish singer (b. 1937)
2007 - Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (b. 1947)
2007 - Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1919)
2007 - Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (b. 1932)
2008 - Barun Sengupta, Bengali journalist (b. 1934)
2008 - Bennie Swain, American basketball player (b. 1930)
2009 - Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
2010 - Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
2010 - Anthony Quinton, British philosopher (b. 1925)
2011 - Don Diamond, American actor (b. 1921)
2012 - Richard Lynch, American actor, dies at 76 (body found on this date)