WORLD EVENTS ON 19 JUNE

In remembrance of my Birthday - 19 June every year, I would like to share events that happened on 19 June that had been recorded. Though it is not a complete list, these events are 'food for our thoughts' and had gone down in history.....

Events

• 1179 – The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
• 1269 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
• 1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
• 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.
• 1770 – Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
• 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).
• 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball match was played under Alexander Joy Cartwright's rules on Hoboken's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired. Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.
• 1850 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
• 1862 – The 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.
• 1867 – Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
• 1870 – After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist.
• 1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
• 1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
• 1915 – The USS Arizona (BB-39) is launched from the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York.
• 1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
• 1943 – Race riots occur in Beaumont, Texas.
• 1944 – World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
• 1953 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
• 1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
• 1966 – Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai.
• 1970 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
• 1978 – Garfield appears in his first comic strip.
• 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.
• 1987 – Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
• 1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, was ratified for the first time by Norway.
• 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.
• 2009 – British troops begin Operation Panther's Claw, one of the largest air operations in modern times, when more than 350 troops made an aerial assault on Taliban positions and subsequently repelled Taliban counter-attacks.

This list was taken from Wikipedia.

Additional events:

1867

The first running of the Belmont Stakes.

1977

Pope Paul VI proclaimed John Neumann, the first male saint from the United States.

1885

... that today is Statue of Liberty Day? The Statue of Liberty arrived at its permanent home at Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor on June 19, 1885, aboard the French frigate Isere. A gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States, the 151-foot-tall statue was created to commemorate the centennial of the American Declaration of Independence.

1987

The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring any public school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creationism as well.

2002

Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai was sworn in.