June 19

June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 195 days remaining.

Events

• 1846 - First baseball game under recognizable modern rules in Hoboken, New Jersey.
• 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.
• 1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
• 1912 - establishment of the 8-hour work day in the United States.
• 1934 - establishment of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the United States. The FCC regulates radio and television broadcasts.
• 1978 - first appearance of the comic strip Garfield.

Births

• 1623 - Blaise Pascal, mathematician (+ 1662)
• 1764 - José Gervasio Artigas[?], father of Uruguay (+ 1850)
• 1792 - Gustav Schwab[?], author (+ 1850)
• 1838 - Friedrich von Hessing[?], engineer (+ 1918)
• 1865 - Dame May Whitty[?], entertainer (+ 1948)
• 1896 - Wallis Warfield[?], Duchess of Windsor[?] (+ 1986)
• 1902 - Guy Lombardo, bandleader (+ 1977)
• 1903 - Lou Gehrig, baseball player
• 1905 - Mildred Natwick[?], actress (+ 1994)
• 1914 - Alan Cranston[?], United States politician (+ 2000)
• 1924 - Anneliese Rothenberger[?], soprano
• 1930 - Gena Rowlands, actress
• 1932 - Pier Angeli[?], actress (+ 1972)
• 1933 - Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut
• 1945 - Aung San Suu Kyi, politician and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1991)
• 1947 - Salman Rushdie, author
• 1962 - Paula Abdul, singer
• 1969 - Reddy Annappareddy[?]

Deaths

• 1902 - Frederick Augustus Albert, king of Saxony from 1873 to 1902
• 1937 - J.M. Barrie[?], author of Peter Pan
• 1953 - Julius Rosenberg, convicted spy
• 1953 - Ethel Rosenberg, convicted spy
• 1966 - Ed Wynn, entertainer

Holidays and observances

• Juneteenth - celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation

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